| Xenobrood | |
|---|---|
 Cover toXenobrood #0, art byTomm Coker. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Xenobrood #0 (October1994) |
| Created by | Doug Moench (writer) Tomm Coker (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Agent(s) | Astra Blip Thrasher Zapatak |
Xenobrood is a fictionalcomic booksuperhero team in theDC Comics universe. They first appeared inXenobrood #0 (October1994). The series was created byDoug Moench andTomm Coker.
Xenobrood #0 was launched as part of DC Comics'Zero Hour event. This was the only mini series marketed from that event as all the other series were regular series.
The Xenobrood are four superbeings processed from thousand year old alien crystals discovered byarchaeologist Zecharia Leight on a dig inKuwait near theIraq border. Leight discovers severalSumeriancuneiform tablets and a chrome cylinder inarchaeological strata dated to the4th millennium BCE. He takes the Sumerian cylinder to bothNASA andS.T.A.R. Labs, neither organization was able to analyze it. He ends up taking the cylinder to Creighton Engineering, and their "Laser Enhanced Spectrographic Analysis" process was able to uncover the fact that the cylinder surface was etched with aholographic record that displays Sumerian glyphs. Leight later discovers that the cylinder contained fourwalnut sizedcrystals, the crystals rapidly develop into "four lumps of super-denseprotoplasm" when submerged in seawater and exposed to sunlight. With the help of Lorna Copely owner and founder of Genetrix Inc. Zecharia is able to grow all four forms to maturity. The four awaken fully clothed, mentally mature and self-aware thanks to a psionic link and "download" from Leight's mind.[1]
The four declare the "cerebral data transfer" from Leight's mind to be complete, but a lot of data was already pre-programmed into theirDNA. The members of the Xenobrood were supposedly created as "organic robots", drone servants used as miners by an alien race named the Vimanians who had made contact with the ancient Sumerians.[2][3]
WithSuperman's help the Xenobrood, Leight and Copely explore an ancient abandoned alien laboratory base, and defeat a three-eyed, white-haired Vimanian named Lord Vimana, and the members of his "Vimanian Bestiary". Lord Vimana is the last true survivor of the Vimanian overlords who created the Xenobrood, he is served by an army of humanclones. The members of his Bestiary are four organic crystal drones named Kohli (Kali), Gargol (Gargoyle), Tauran (Minotaur), and Mahduse (Medusa).
According to the cuneiform tablets translated by Doctor Leight and his associates, the Vimanians supposedly interfered withhuman evolution. By having their early worker drones mate withAustralopithecus afarensis, and laterHomo erectus, the Vimanians intended to jumpstart the human evolutionary process, thereby creating an entire race of super powered slaves.[4] Much later theWhite Martians would experiment onHomo sapiens who had possibly inherited themetagene left by the Vimanans.[5]