- Script
- Mark Waid ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire ? (design); typeset
The inside front cover presents logo, credits, Plutonian's insignia, recap of story so far, and indicia in a design that first appeared on the inside front cover of Irredeemable Special #1.
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Diego Barreto (credited)
- Inks
- Diego Barreto (credited)
- Colors
- Andrew Dalhouse (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bette Noir; Bette Noir's father [name unrevealed]; The Paradigm [Volt (flashback); Qubit (flashback); Gilgamos (flashback); Kaidan (flashback); Gazer (flashback; introduction); Citadel (flashback; introduction, death); Scylla (flashback); Charybdis (flashback) [also as Survivor (photo only)]; Artillery (flashback; introduction); unknown binary humanoid (cameo); Modeus robot (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Bette Noir tells her father of The Paradigm's encounter with The Plutonian on the day he laid waste to Sky City — and of her guilt over not using a relic from their affair to potentially stop his ensuing rampage.
- Reprints
Story is untitled beyond series title. First page is silent, with first panel showing headline from Northwest Daily [Journal] reading "Paradigm in Custody". // Gazer and Citadel's gravestones were seen in Irredeemable Special #1; this is their first actual appearance.