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#2 - Sleepers Created by: Snake

A stealth based team tasked with protecting the world's threats without any of the fame that comes with it.

- Black Widow
- Clayface (Basil Karlo)
- Catwoman
- Ghost (Marvel)
- The Question (Vic Sage)
- Plastique

This is a goddamn team. A fantastic mix of personality and visually dynamic, I can taste the potential storytelling quite palpably. Reminiscent to me of the brief Gotham underground team introduced in the Dark Knights: Metal event last year, this group follows in the vein of a Secret Defenders or Secret Avengers or even an Uncanny X-Force. A sucker for a team that's less about bricks and more about subterfuge and skulduggery, I think there's always room for a SHIELD-less SHIELD. Sleepers is a team that I think has the potential to really live into its name. On the surface, these characters could band together as double agents working undercover in various organizations, pooling shreds of information and discovering a larger looming threat that requires them to work together. Clayface could pose as almost any character you want, Plastique could sneak into the Injustice League, Black Widow could return to her Kremlin roots to effect change. Catwoman could manipulate the Bat-Family if necessary.

But at the same time, these sleepers could very well be sleepers within Sleepers itself. Imagine that the backstabbing and manipulation exists on two fronts. We could create a metahuman cold war where every character is unreliable and you can't even trust the panels of comics in front of you. It reminds me of great movies like The Usual Suspects or The Game, stories where the twists and turns just never stop. The fact that the "sleepers" in the group name can be either good or bad for the group's purposes really makes this potentially juicy. Top that with the fact that everyone in this group has the capacity to flip like a switch and play for the other team, and you have this gray area group where you'll find yourself investing in one theory as a reader and distrusting everyone around you.

Overall, this is the sort of Alias-meets-Game of Thrones that coics could really use, and I applaud Snake's effort in putting together an intricate concept that seems like the sort of comic which will demand re-reads.
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