- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Peter Krause
- Inks
- Peter Krause
- Colors
- Andrew Dalhouse
- Letters
- ? (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; The Paradigm [Charybdis; Scylla (cameo; flashback); Gilgamos; Qubit; Bette Noir; Kaidan; Volt]; Encanta; Dr. Seabrook [full name unknown] (introduction; flashback)
- Synopsis
- While battling Charybdis, The Plutonian reveals the pressures he felt as the world's greatest superhero and his culpability in the release of a deadly ultrasonic virus. The rest of The Paradigm discover a memorial to the children killed by that virus at Plutonian's sanctuary, where they are attacked by Encanta.
- Reprints
Story is untitled beyond series title. First page shows an enraged Plutonian pressing Charybdis into a wall.