by Amanda Sherriff
Jelene Anderson, who would become Adept, was a devout Christian living a normal life in the year 2073 when creators Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson introduced her in Strikeforce: Morituri #1. She was tested for the Morituri process and found compatible. She underwent the process, which gave regular humans superpowers, since she considered it her duty to help protect the planet from the ongoing war with the alien Horde. The price of the powers, however, was that recipients would only live for one year because the body couldn’t sustain the powers in the long-term.
Jelene became one of the first generation volunteers to Strikeforce: Morituri. She and her teammates went to the Biowar Facility Alpha were they were put into extremely stressful situations so that their powers would manifest. Jelene nearly died in a cage with venomous snakes until her powers surfaced, which included the ability to analyze situations and produce the right solution to solve it. While trapped in the cage, she chemically produced the antidote to the snakes’ venom and created a mechanism to free herself.
As Adept, she was a vital member of the team, though she needed time to process a situation to provide a solution. The Horde infected a small town with a living organism that caused skin to grow over peoples’ eyes, nose, and mouth. When the team was sent to investigate Adept was afflicted with the living organism. To counteract it she chemically produced the antidote to save herself and the town.
When the team was sent to infiltrate a Horde mothership, Adept found a storage area and was able to catalogue many of the items in her head. Once back on Earth, the world government leaders considered her knowledge invaluable, so she was tasked with analyzing the data.
Later after a field mission, Adept’s powers went into overdrive, and she began rapidly processing and explaining technical information from the Horde’s artifacts. She briefly regained her normal thought process and clarity, and knowing that the power surge was leading to her death, she thanked God for her life. The team recorded her analysis until the Morituri effect killed her.
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(W) Peter B. Gillis (A) Whilce Portacio (A/CA) Brent Eric Anderson
A SAVAGE ALIEN RACE CALLED THE HORDE HAS INVADED EARTH, ENSLAVING ITS PEOPLE AND PLUNDERING ITS RESOURCES.?SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVISED A METHOD OF FIGHTING BACK - THE MORITURI PROCESS, WHICH GRANTS ENHANCED ABILITIES TO A SELECT FEW COMPATIBLE HUMANS - BUT THE TRANSFORMATION IS FATAL WITHIN A YEAR. NOW, A HANDFUL OF BRAVE VOLUNTEERS MAKE UP STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI - AN ELITE, EXPERIMENTAL AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FIGHTING FORCE AGAINST THE DEPREDATIONS OF THE HORDE. BUT THE HEAT OF EVERY BATTLE, THE CELEBRATION OF EVERY VICTORY AND EVERY QUIET MOMENT ALONE IS TAINTED BY THE INESCAPABLE KNOWLEDGE THAT - WIN OR LOSE - THEIR FATE IS SEALED. COLLECTING STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI #1-13.
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(W) Peter B. Gillis, James D. Hudnall (A) Whilce Portacio, HUW Thomas, John Calimee, Mark Bagley (A/CA) Brent Eric Anderson
As the first generations of Strikeforce: Morituri are lost one by one - either killed in battle or violent in-fighting, or perishing from the Morituri Effect itself - a group of scientists undertake a dangerous and unauthorized experiment to create more. Unfortunately, things don't go exactly as planned. Enter: the Morituri Monsters! Then, an alien virus is discovered that offers a glimmer of hope for the Strikeforce - but has it come too late? Plus: The war against the Horde takes an unexpected and shocking twist! Collecting STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI #14-26.
336 PGS./Rated T
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(W) James D. Hudnall (A/CA) Mark Bagley
The war against the Horde is over, and mankind is victorious - so what do the Morituri do now? As the Earth heals from its lengthy occupation, the surviving Strikeforce members must come to terms with their own looming mortality, even as new and deadly dangers arise on the post-war planet - including a group of Morituri-empowered assassins targeting the Prime Minister, and a secret conspiracy threatening to sunder Earth's united government. And what is the sinister hidden agenda of the alien VXX199? The epic sci-fi sensation of the '80s concludes here! Collecting STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI #27-31 and STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI - ELECTRIC UNDERTOW #1-5.
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This article originally appeared in Gemstone Publishing’s e-newsletter Scoop.
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Amanda Sheriff is Gemstone Publishing’s Associate Editor, serving as the writer/editor of the e-newsletter, Scoop. She is the author of The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Movie Posters, The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Concert Posters, and The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Horror, and co-author of The Overstreet Price Guide to Star Wars Collectibles and The Overstreet Price Guide to Batman.
