Livewires (comics)
| Project Livewire | |
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Cover to "Livewires" #1. Pictured starting from left-top
Top: Hollowpoint Ninja and Cornfed. Middle: Gothic Lolita. Bottom: Stem Cell and Social Butterfly. Art by Adam Warren. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Livewires #1 |
| Created by |
Adam Warren Rick Mays |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | United States, mobile |
| Member(s) | Cornfed Gothic Lolita Hollowpoint Ninja Homebrew David Jenkins Social Butterfly Stem Cell |
Livewires is a six-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in 2005. The series was written by Adam Warren, who also provided layouts, and pencilled by Rick Mays.
The series stars a group of fictional androids who are members of a covert black ops program code named Project Livewire. These androids are on a mission to seek out and destroy other black ops.
Project Livewire was founded by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a means of testing the next generation of S.H.I.E.L.D. androids. These androids are based on the long-standing S.H.I.E.L.D. android, the Life Model Decoys (LMDs), and the LMD successors, the Mannites. The androids of Project Livewire combine the super-human abilities of the Mannites with the human appearance of the LMDs. Most of the work for Project Livewire was done by David Jenkins, the assistant chief designer of the project.
In total, ten androids were created for Project Livewire. By the beginning of the limited series, there were only five left functioning.
The series opens in the middle of a mission with Stem Cell's activation as a replacement for Homebrew. The team has located one of their targets at a facility operated by a company named Thermogentech. The rogue Black Op is using cells secretly taken from the original Human Torch. These cells have been used to create a hive race of giant burning nanomachine-based robots called Pyronanos. The Pyronanos have gone rogue and have taken over the Thermogentech lab where they were created. Project Livewire assaults the building and discovers the Pyronanos attempting to build a nuclear fusion cannon to spread themselves across the land. After a long fire-fight, the members of Project Livewire manage to destroy both the facility and the Pyronanos.
Since Stem Cell is straight "out of the box", she still has her default human emotional responses in place and has difficulty adapting to the experiences.
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