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Behold, the defenders of Spain, El Sin Par - assembled to combat the foes none of them could face alone and to protect the Spanish way of life, these heroes were brought together by their country's Dept. of Alternative-human Affairs from a list of known superhuman residents of the country -

the first to be brought on board was Ariadna Campoy, the powerhouse known to the people as Incredibelle - her superhuman strength, invulnerability and flight are made possible by her 'incrediforce' energy shield, a powerful psychoresponsive force field that grants her her gifts - a small time actress, youtuber and instagram model/fitness coach, Ariadna originally took up the fight with the intention of increasing her subscriber base. Though, while her initial motives were selfish, she soon realized the good she could actually achieve and rededicated her channel to include social commentary, live action of her exploits and to push a message of self betterment - she has been famously tight-lipped about the origin of her powers, leading to several internet conspiracies about her but whatever her origins no one can argue that she isn't putting her powers to good use. Incredibelle may be the spokeswoman and face of the team but she takes a backseat in the field, leaving command decisions to her teammate...

La Reposición (Rerun)
Luca Soldado had a fairly rough life - he ran from a physically abusive home when he was 13, and was homeless till 15 - he was a scrappy kid, but even so he learned some hard and violent lessons on the streets of Madrid. When he was 15, he was accosted by 3 men, angry, drunk - whether they only wanted to hurt him or worse, Luca could only speculate, but scrappy as he was, he was still no match for them and all seemed lost - until his savior appeared, a man local to this neighbourhood who ran a private gym - Jose Morata - champion muay thai fighter, savate practitioner, with another dozen fighting styles in his repertoire. he easily defeated these fools in the street, and with a kind heart he offered Luca a place to stay for the night. and to pay him back, Luca started cleaning the gym the next day - as time passed, it had become a good place for Luca, Jose was kind and provided shelter and safety that Luca had never known, stability - and soon, training. by 20, Luca was a renowned fighter in the local circuit, with Jose managing him. when a local mobster demanded Jose have Luca take a fall, Jose broke the mans nose - he had thought that would have been the end of it, and they would accept the message that neither Jose nor Luca's future could be bought or bullied from them - but later that night, a hail of bullets proved otherwise.
when the funeral had passed, Luca was shocked to discover that he had inherited everything from Jose - the gym, his home, enough money to keep both going comfortably - as well as a box, with a letter inside from Jose - in the letter, Jose outed himself as a fraud - that his reputation had been built on a lie, because he had cheated to win. that he had used a 'magic necklace' that allowed him to see forward in time, and to jump back a few minutes to alter actions, or to 'fast forward' himself for short periods - that in his youth, he squandered this on becoming a famous fighter and making a name for himself, and partying, instead of to help anyone, and worse - neglecting his young wife, who was pregnant with his unborn son and not being there to save them when it counted - he had renounced this power. dedicated himself to training, and had vowed to pass it on to someone he felt would be worthy. in this he sought redemption, a chance to start again - a rerun. Luca adopted the necklace, training to couple its odd temporal abilities with his fighting style before going after the men responsible for Jose's death. with them brought to justice, he sought to honor the wishes of his late mentor and use these gifts in a way that he hopes will make his old friend proud. Luca sets out to turn back the clock on injustice, as the virtuous La Reposición!

joining these 2 in battle are...

Lanza de Trueno (Thunder-lance)
Arturo Hermosa grew up in a beautiful home with a loving family, his father had his own business as a rare antiquities dealer and his mother was an intelligent and beautiful housewife who enjoyed shopping and relaxing by the pool, his Sister Esperanza was quiet and for reasons Arturo never understood, had an even quieter sadness about her - but in spite of this, Arturo had always felt blessed - though he knew he was different deep down inside, different in ways his church would not approve of. At least his family would always be there for him he always thought - his family would always love him, his father spoke often about the importance of family - so why shouldn't Arturo be able to tell his family the truth? he knew immediately that it had been a mistake, the disgust on his mothers face, the rage in his fathers eyes - how could they be like this? his fathers rage quickly turned to action as he beat his son and shouted obscene, horrific things at him - Arturo had no choice but to flee the only home he had ever known - to run from the people he loved most in the world. for days, he stewed - this cannot be the way they truly feel, it must be a misunderstanding, they are good people - aren't they? still bruised, but resolved to confront his father, Arturo made his way to his workplace, but his father was nowhere to be found - a strange light, emanating from beneath a bookshelf led Arturo down into a sub-basement - where his father, draped in crimson robes with likewise dressed individuals chanting in some unrecognizable language stood surrounding some sort of alter upon which sat some form of spear - the source of the light that drawn Arturo down the steps. being unsure, Arturo hid himself and listened - he heard them curse that the ritual remained ineffective, the spear yet slept, that a blood sacrifice would be required to let them feed upon its power - and his father mentioned Esperanza. He couldn't seriously intend to kill his own daughter for some spear, surely? but then, he was not the type to turn on his son for who he loved either... Arturo resigned himself to dispose of the spear, to steal it when the coast was clear and throw it into a river, or the sea. as the last of the men left the room Arturo approached and could almost hear...singing? coming from the spear. reaching out, there was a spark and he awakened in a white room, and before him stood the spear which spoke with a voice of rolling thunder, granting him understanding - this lance had long been a weapon against evil, and had been wielded by warriors, kings and heroes throughout the ages. but now, it was prison, held by dark forces that sought to consume the power of the spear, and then the world. the lance asked Arturo to become its new wielder, to bond with the weapon and aid it in driving back the dark forces that had kept it prisoner - and in return, it would aid Arturo in protecting his sister. how could he refuse? agreeing, he felt himself surge with power and found himself once again in the subbasement, now adorned in Silvery armour with a blue cape hanging off one shoulder - reborn! he set to work, following the lances instruction, realizing that with it he was superhumanly strong, bullet-proof, and so long as he held the spear, gifted with flight and able to harness thunder and lightning at will - the lance helped him hunt down and purge the darkness from his fathers men but when he reached his father himself he had a horrifying realization - his father was not infected by darkness. by evil. his father simply was evil - their family money, borne of criminal enterprise and the blood of the innocent, bolstered by his interest in the dark arts and his sisters quiet sadness now revealed as she had long been a sexual plaything to her fathers dark appetites - broken-hearted by resolute, Arturo did as he said he would and purged this darkness from the world, killing his own father. he left his mother and sister non-the-wiser and decided to keep his power hidden from them - his mothers love now free from the infectious hate of her husbands magics, he was welcomed home.
it was difficult to see his mother mourn, but his sister was free from his evil now at least - and, true to word, he now sprang into action against evil to strike it down with the fury of the heavens - as Lanza de Trueno!

El Jinete Pálido (The Pale Rider)
growing up in an orphanage, Youseff Cuevas always felt haunted. when he would look at some people he could sense if their death was near, and he could always hear the whisper of someone in the back of his mind telling him of the crimes people had committed. as he grew he learned to push away those voices and senses, but remained largely an outcast - he made himself useful around the orphanage and in return the nuns gave him lodging and food and what guidance they could - when a property developer had come around looking to purchase the orphanage it filled Youseff with terror - not at the thought of losing a place to live, but because as soon as Sister Margret told the man no, his old sense for peoples deaths sprung to life, louder than ever - and was now centered on everyone within the orphanage. crazy. just nerves. that's all it is, Youseff desperately tried to tell himself. it isn't real. everything was fine - but as he was at the store buying supplies for the orphanage, he heard sirens, felt a sharp pull - towards home. he ran as fast as he could but it was no use - the orphanage was now ablaze, collapsing in itself even as he arrived on the scene, firefighters fought as best they could but by the time the blaze was under control the building was gone - along with everyone inside. walking through the ashes of his former home, those old voices grew louder and louder - they cried for vengeance! and as his rage overtook him, his body was enveloped in a white fire, and his face became a mask of hellish darkness - his voices now clear, the whispers of the dead - himself, their vessel. instinctively he reached into the hole where his heart should be and produced a scythe forged from grasping bones, slathered in a soupy black liquid - and as he set his mind to pursuing the man responsible for the fire, more of this fluid spewed from him onto the ground and as though it was clawing itself up from hell itself arose a black steed, similar to his scythe that he once more instinctively knew as 'Ichor'. he was reborn in rage, death draped in flames of white hot fury - able to summon any form of construct from the bones and tar that seemed to reside somehow within him, able to burn through any barrier - El Jinete Pálido rides new - let evil beware!

Masa de tierra (Landmass)
a former soldier in the Ejército de Tierra, Mateo Acin was discharged after a landmine claimed his legs. desperate and willing to do anything to be able to walk again, he sought out representatives of a nameless black market operation that had been rumored to be able to perform veritable miracles using illegal - possibly alien - technologies.
when he finally made contact, he was immediately kidnapped, and taken to a black site for experimentation, tortured and abused against his will and eventually told that even if they 'granted his miracle' it wouldn't matter - because they intended to wipe his mind and make him into a slave - if the experiments didn't kill him first.
as best he could tell, the were using some form of chemical stimulation to try and have a body adopt the properties of a material they would press against it - exomorphic adaptation, one of the doctors called it - so make men able to give themselves skin of steel, of wood - of stone. none of it worked. Mateo's anger grew with every body they threw into the incinerator until one day, in his fury he pulled the stone and sediment of the ground up around himself - instinctively, creating a massive rock-armoured form.
he quickly overcame the nameless men, and set free his fellow experimentees - their experiment hadn't made him able to adapt to different properties, but he could now forge a surrogate body from stone and silicate, becoming a walking landmass, but at the cost of countless lives - after escaping the lab, he volunteered for El Sin Par, desperate now to seek something so much harder to find than new legs...redemption.

El Enjambre Negro (The Black Swarm)
a former entomologist, Celia Castellano thought she was destined for fame when she discovered the fossil of what she could only describe as an 'omnisect' - an insect containing the biological information of all insects, arachnids, and bugs - but when that 'fossil' stung her and crumbed to dust, she immediately self-isolated herself in a private lab, and began a video journal of what was occurring to her - she felt the omnisect venom move through her body, breaking her down from the inside painlessly over the course of a week but also, rebuilding her from the inside, stronger somehow - by the weeks end, she had encased herself in a form of cocoon - one from which she would emerge an entirely new life form. strong, impossibly fast, able to adopt attributes from any insect/arachnid in a heartbeat and able to now control all forms of creepy crawlies mentally, Celia was now a new form of Apex predator. a thought that struck terror in her to her core, as she was now at war within herself, her intellect verses her now incredibly powerful, near-overriding instincts to feed. seeking out a place among the heroes of El Sin Par to police herself, she uses her frightening new powers to try and protect innocent people and life - rather than swarm over the world and devour it all, ruling whats left as a terrifying new Queen.

as always, all these guys will eventually appear in the pages of Silverback, so why not check out the comic by visiting us at www.silverbackcomic.com

Description
Behold, the defenders of Spain, El Sin Par - assembled to combat the foes none of them could face alone and to protect the Spanish way of life, these heroes were brought together by their country's Dept. of Alternative-human Affairs from a list of known superhuman residents of the country -

the first to be brought on board was Ariadna Campoy, the powerhouse known to the people as Incredibelle - her superhuman strength, invulnerability and flight are made possible by her 'incrediforce' energy shield, a powerful psychoresponsive force field that grants her her gifts - a small time actress, youtuber and instagram model/fitness coach, Ariadna originally took up the fight with the intention of increasing her subscriber base. Though, while her initial motives were selfish, she soon realized the good she could actually achieve and rededicated her channel to include social commentary, live action of her exploits and to push a message of self betterment - she has been famously tight-lipped about the origin of her powers, leading to several internet conspiracies about her but whatever her origins no one can argue that she isn't putting her powers to good use. Incredibelle may be the spokeswoman and face of the team but she takes a backseat in the field, leaving command decisions to her teammate...

La Reposición (Rerun)
Luca Soldado had a fairly rough life - he ran from a physically abusive home when he was 13, and was homeless till 15 - he was a scrappy kid, but even so he learned some hard and violent lessons on the streets of Madrid. When he was 15, he was accosted by 3 men, angry, drunk - whether they only wanted to hurt him or worse, Luca could only speculate, but scrappy as he was, he was still no match for them and all seemed lost - until his savior appeared, a man local to this neighbourhood who ran a private gym - Jose Morata - champion muay thai fighter, savate practitioner, with another dozen fighting styles in his repertoire. he easily defeated these fools in the street, and with a kind heart he offered Luca a place to stay for the night. and to pay him back, Luca started cleaning the gym the next day - as time passed, it had become a good place for Luca, Jose was kind and provided shelter and safety that Luca had never known, stability - and soon, training. by 20, Luca was a renowned fighter in the local circuit, with Jose managing him. when a local mobster demanded Jose have Luca take a fall, Jose broke the mans nose - he had thought that would have been the end of it, and they would accept the message that neither Jose nor Luca's future could be bought or bullied from them - but later that night, a hail of bullets proved otherwise.
when the funeral had passed, Luca was shocked to discover that he had inherited everything from Jose - the gym, his home, enough money to keep both going comfortably - as well as a box, with a letter inside from Jose - in the letter, Jose outed himself as a fraud - that his reputation had been built on a lie, because he had cheated to win. that he had used a 'magic necklace' that allowed him to see forward in time, and to jump back a few minutes to alter actions, or to 'fast forward' himself for short periods - that in his youth, he squandered this on becoming a famous fighter and making a name for himself, and partying, instead of to help anyone, and worse - neglecting his young wife, who was pregnant with his unborn son and not being there to save them when it counted - he had renounced this power. dedicated himself to training, and had vowed to pass it on to someone he felt would be worthy. in this he sought redemption, a chance to start again - a rerun. Luca adopted the necklace, training to couple its odd temporal abilities with his fighting style before going after the men responsible for Jose's death. with them brought to justice, he sought to honor the wishes of his late mentor and use these gifts in a way that he hopes will make his old friend proud. Luca sets out to turn back the clock on injustice, as the virtuous La Reposición!

joining these 2 in battle are...

Lanza de Trueno (Thunder-lance)
Arturo Hermosa grew up in a beautiful home with a loving family, his father had his own business as a rare antiquities dealer and his mother was an intelligent and beautiful housewife who enjoyed shopping and relaxing by the pool, his Sister Esperanza was quiet and for reasons Arturo never understood, had an even quieter sadness about her - but in spite of this, Arturo had always felt blessed - though he knew he was different deep down inside, different in ways his church would not approve of. At least his family would always be there for him he always thought - his family would always love him, his father spoke often about the importance of family - so why shouldn't Arturo be able to tell his family the truth? he knew immediately that it had been a mistake, the disgust on his mothers face, the rage in his fathers eyes - how could they be like this? his fathers rage quickly turned to action as he beat his son and shouted obscene, horrific things at him - Arturo had no choice but to flee the only home he had ever known - to run from the people he loved most in the world. for days, he stewed - this cannot be the way they truly feel, it must be a misunderstanding, they are good people - aren't they? still bruised, but resolved to confront his father, Arturo made his way to his workplace, but his father was nowhere to be found - a strange light, emanating from beneath a bookshelf led Arturo down into a sub-basement - where his father, draped in crimson robes with likewise dressed individuals chanting in some unrecognizable language stood surrounding some sort of alter upon which sat some form of spear - the source of the light that drawn Arturo down the steps. being unsure, Arturo hid himself and listened - he heard them curse that the ritual remained ineffective, the spear yet slept, that a blood sacrifice would be required to let them feed upon its power - and his father mentioned Esperanza. He couldn't seriously intend to kill his own daughter for some spear, surely? but then, he was not the type to turn on his son for who he loved either... Arturo resigned himself to dispose of the spear, to steal it when the coast was clear and throw it into a river, or the sea. as the last of the men left the room Arturo approached and could almost hear...singing? coming from the spear. reaching out, there was a spark and he awakened in a white room, and before him stood the spear which spoke with a voice of rolling thunder, granting him understanding - this lance had long been a weapon against evil, and had been wielded by warriors, kings and heroes throughout the ages. but now, it was prison, held by dark forces that sought to consume the power of the spear, and then the world. the lance asked Arturo to become its new wielder, to bond with the weapon and aid it in driving back the dark forces that had kept it prisoner - and in return, it would aid Arturo in protecting his sister. how could he refuse? agreeing, he felt himself surge with power and found himself once again in the subbasement, now adorned in Silvery armour with a blue cape hanging off one shoulder - reborn! he set to work, following the lances instruction, realizing that with it he was superhumanly strong, bullet-proof, and so long as he held the spear, gifted with flight and able to harness thunder and lightning at will - the lance helped him hunt down and purge the darkness from his fathers men but when he reached his father himself he had a horrifying realization - his father was not infected by darkness. by evil. his father simply was evil - their family money, borne of criminal enterprise and the blood of the innocent, bolstered by his interest in the dark arts and his sisters quiet sadness now revealed as she had long been a sexual plaything to her fathers dark appetites - broken-hearted by resolute, Arturo did as he said he would and purged this darkness from the world, killing his own father. he left his mother and sister non-the-wiser and decided to keep his power hidden from them - his mothers love now free from the infectious hate of her husbands magics, he was welcomed home.
it was difficult to see his mother mourn, but his sister was free from his evil now at least - and, true to word, he now sprang into action against evil to strike it down with the fury of the heavens - as Lanza de Trueno!

El Jinete Pálido (The Pale Rider)
growing up in an orphanage, Youseff Cuevas always felt haunted. when he would look at some people he could sense if their death was near, and he could always hear the whisper of someone in the back of his mind telling him of the crimes people had committed. as he grew he learned to push away those voices and senses, but remained largely an outcast - he made himself useful around the orphanage and in return the nuns gave him lodging and food and what guidance they could - when a property developer had come around looking to purchase the orphanage it filled Youseff with terror - not at the thought of losing a place to live, but because as soon as Sister Margret told the man no, his old sense for peoples deaths sprung to life, louder than ever - and was now centered on everyone within the orphanage. crazy. just nerves. that's all it is, Youseff desperately tried to tell himself. it isn't real. everything was fine - but as he was at the store buying supplies for the orphanage, he heard sirens, felt a sharp pull - towards home. he ran as fast as he could but it was no use - the orphanage was now ablaze, collapsing in itself even as he arrived on the scene, firefighters fought as best they could but by the time the blaze was under control the building was gone - along with everyone inside. walking through the ashes of his former home, those old voices grew louder and louder - they cried for vengeance! and as his rage overtook him, his body was enveloped in a white fire, and his face became a mask of hellish darkness - his voices now clear, the whispers of the dead - himself, their vessel. instinctively he reached into the hole where his heart should be and produced a scythe forged from grasping bones, slathered in a soupy black liquid - and as he set his mind to pursuing the man responsible for the fire, more of this fluid spewed from him onto the ground and as though it was clawing itself up from hell itself arose a black steed, similar to his scythe that he once more instinctively knew as 'Ichor'. he was reborn in rage, death draped in flames of white hot fury - able to summon any form of construct from the bones and tar that seemed to reside somehow within him, able to burn through any barrier - El Jinete Pálido rides new - let evil beware!

Masa de tierra (Landmass)
a former soldier in the Ejército de Tierra, Mateo Acin was discharged after a landmine claimed his legs. desperate and willing to do anything to be able to walk again, he sought out representatives of a nameless black market operation that had been rumored to be able to perform veritable miracles using illegal - possibly alien - technologies.
when he finally made contact, he was immediately kidnapped, and taken to a black site for experimentation, tortured and abused against his will and eventually told that even if they 'granted his miracle' it wouldn't matter - because they intended to wipe his mind and make him into a slave - if the experiments didn't kill him first.
as best he could tell, the were using some form of chemical stimulation to try and have a body adopt the properties of a material they would press against it - exomorphic adaptation, one of the doctors called it - so make men able to give themselves skin of steel, of wood - of stone. none of it worked. Mateo's anger grew with every body they threw into the incinerator until one day, in his fury he pulled the stone and sediment of the ground up around himself - instinctively, creating a massive rock-armoured form.
he quickly overcame the nameless men, and set free his fellow experimentees - their experiment hadn't made him able to adapt to different properties, but he could now forge a surrogate body from stone and silicate, becoming a walking landmass, but at the cost of countless lives - after escaping the lab, he volunteered for El Sin Par, desperate now to seek something so much harder to find than new legs...redemption.

El Enjambre Negro (The Black Swarm)
a former entomologist, Celia Castellano thought she was destined for fame when she discovered the fossil of what she could only describe as an 'omnisect' - an insect containing the biological information of all insects, arachnids, and bugs - but when that 'fossil' stung her and crumbed to dust, she immediately self-isolated herself in a private lab, and began a video journal of what was occurring to her - she felt the omnisect venom move through her body, breaking her down from the inside painlessly over the course of a week but also, rebuilding her from the inside, stronger somehow - by the weeks end, she had encased herself in a form of cocoon - one from which she would emerge an entirely new life form. strong, impossibly fast, able to adopt attributes from any insect/arachnid in a heartbeat and able to now control all forms of creepy crawlies mentally, Celia was now a new form of Apex predator. a thought that struck terror in her to her core, as she was now at war within herself, her intellect verses her now incredibly powerful, near-overriding instincts to feed. seeking out a place among the heroes of El Sin Par to police herself, she uses her frightening new powers to try and protect innocent people and life - rather than swarm over the world and devour it all, ruling whats left as a terrifying new Queen.

as always, all these guys will eventually appear in the pages of Silverback, so why not check out the comic by visiting us at www.silverbackcomic.com