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J. Michael Straczynski's first creator-owned comic. Cover A.
Rising Stars #0 is the zero issue entry point for J. Michael Straczynski's ambitious superhero series from Top Cow Productions and Image Comics, published in June 2000. The story, titled 'Initiations: A Lost Tale of the Specials,' serves as supplemental mythology for the Rising Stars universe, offering background material on the Specials, ordinary people granted extraordinary abilities after a mysterious event in Pederson, Illinois. The issue features Poet (John Simon), Matthew Bright, and Patriot (Jason Miller), three of the series' central characters, in a story that expands the world beyond the main 24-issue run. Rising Stars was J. Michael Straczynski's first creator-owned comic, the book that launched his Joe's Comics imprint at Top Cow.
Rising Stars ran from 1999 through 2005 and stands as one of the more character-driven superhero series to emerge from the Image/Top Cow stable of that era. Straczynski brought his television writing sensibility to the book, grounding the premise in human drama rather than spectacle. The zero issue was produced as a companion piece to the ongoing series, giving readers a self-contained window into the Specials' world. The cover is the A variant of the issue.
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