- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Peter Krause
- Inks
- Peter Krause
- Colors
- Andrew Dalhouse
- Letters
- ? (logo, design); typeset
- Characters
- The Plutonian; The Hornet; Sarah [The Hornet's daughter]; Qubit; Samsara; Kaidan; Gilgamos; Volt; Bette Noir; Scylla; Charybdis; Modeus
The inside front cover has head shots of cast from previous issues and recap of story so far, plus logo, credits, and indicia set against negative red-&-black detail of #1's Cover A.
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Peter Krause (credited)
- Inks
- Peter Krause (credited)
- Colors
- Andrew Dalhouse (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Plutonian; Bette Noir (costume only); Inferno [Martin Reber] (unseen; first mention; revelation of death); The Paradigm [Scylla; Charybdis; Qubit; Kaidan]; The Fixer [David; full name unknown] (introduction; death); Encanta [real name unknown] (introduction); Billy [unidentified supervillain; full name unknown] (introduction; death); three unidentified supervillains (introduction; death); Modeus robots
- Synopsis
- The Plutonian seedily exerts his power. Scylla and Charybdis arrive at an abandoned prison outside Philadelphia, monitored by Qubit. Underneath the prison, a half-dozen supervillains explore the headquarters of recently deceased superhero Inferno, where they are nonchalantly confronted by... The Plutonian.
- Reprints
Story is untitled beyond series title. First line: "Like this?"