- Letters
- ? (logo, design); typeset
The inside front cover has logo, credits, and indicia set against negative red-&-black detail of Cover A.
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Peter Krause (credited)
- Inks
- Peter Krause (credited)
- Colors
- Andrew Dalhouse (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My name is Kaidan, as was my mother's, and her mother's before her.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Plutonian [Dan Hartigan]; The Paradigm [Kaidan; Qubit]; Alana Patel (introduction); Alana Patel's four co-workers [all unnamed] (flashback; introduction; revelation of deaths); Dargeaux (flashback; cameo; introduction); Modeus (flashback; cameo; introduction); Modeus robots (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Kaidan reflects on her abilities and an early meeting with The Plutonian as she arrives in Sky City to meet his former girlfriend, Alana Patel. Patel's memories focus on the one adversary who scared The Plutonian, Modeus, and Plutonian's double life as Dan Hartigan, an identity he apparently discarded after revealing it to Patel the last time she saw him.
- Reprints
The Paradigm is named in this issue. // Story is untitled beyond series title.