The End League
| The End League | |
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Cover of The End League #1
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Schedule | Bi-Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | January 2008 – October 2009 |
| No. of issues | 9 |
| Main character(s) | Astonishman Soldier American The Arachnakid The Prairie Ghost Codename Black Brother Occult Divinty Grimwood Blur Girl Mother Hive The Blue Gauntlet |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Rick Remender Mat Broome |
| Written by | Rick Remender |
| Artist(s) | Mat Broome |
| Inker(s) | Sean Parsons |
| Colorist(s) | Wendy Broome |
| Collected editions | |
| The Ballad of Big Nothing | ISBN |
| Weathered Statues | ISBN |
The End League is a fictional superhero team appearing in a self-titled bi-monthly comic book series by Dark Horse Comics, which began in January 2008.
The series was created by Rick Remender and Mat Broome and focuses on the struggles of the last of the superheroes in a world in which the supervillains have prevailed and enslaved what remains of the world.
The series was written by Rick Remender, with pencils by Mat Broome, and inks by Sean Parsons.
As of issue #5, Broome left for Marvel Comics and Eric Canete took over art duties, with Dave Stewart providing the coloring. With the new art team in place for the start of the second story arc, the title started appearing on a monthly basis.
Due to Remender also signing an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics, he wound up both of his creator-owned Dark Horse series, with The End League ending in a double-length issue #9.
During the Green Event, Astonishman uses his super-hearing to determine which city needs his help the most. While doing so he overhears survivors of the Green Event gaining and using their powers for the first time. Most of these survivors become selfish and corrupt, looking only for ways to exploit their new-found abilities for any type of monetary gain. The majority of the Magnificents live in "Dead" Lexington's city (New York), but the few heroes that survive live with Astonishman in his Citadel of Seclusion in Australia, now a snow-covered wasteland.
In May 1962, the superhero Astonishman triggers a worldwide cataclysm known as the Green Event. His archenemy, the villain Dead Lexington, leads Astonishman to believe that an alien ship at the bottom of the ocean is a Communist nuclear facility. Astonishman detonates a nuclear missile in the ship, which explodes the alien power core, releasing a wave of radiation and knocking the Earth off its axis. The resulting radiation kills three billion people, with one in ten thousand of the survivors later developing superhuman abilities. Astonishman's responsibility for the Green Event is a fact of which only he and Dead Lexington are aware.
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