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History

Breach is a 2005 comic book series from DC Comics. written by Bob Harras with art by penciller Marcos Martin and inker Alvaro Lopez. The series is centered on a US Army Major named Tim Zanetti, who gains superpowers in a scientific experiment gone wrong. Zanetti was working for "Project Otherside," a secret sub-Arctic nuclear reactor where scientists are probing other dimensions. In an accident at the facility, Zanetti is caught in a dimensional rift and afterwards is found in a coma with his body forever changed. His body is placed in an isolation chamber for the next twenty years, at which point he awakens. His body has become a conductor for a mysterious and deadly energy, able to "melt" biological substances only with a touch, and so he has to be dampened with a special containment suit. Left behind while Zanetti is comatose and presumed dead, are his wife Katie and son Tate. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Robert Bob Harras was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics from 1995 to 2000. ... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ... Dimension (from Latin measured out) is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. ...

Similarites to Captain Atom

There is a reason why the premise is very similar to that of another DC Comics character, Captain Atom. Breach was originally intended to be a modern reboot of Captain Atom, until management at DC decided not to revise the character, who was last rebooted during the late 1980s. With the development of Breach already underway, the decision was made to partially rewrite the plot and characters and create a brand new superhero. Captain Atom is a fictional character, a comic book superhero. ... Reboot, in series fiction, means to discard all previous continuity in the series and start anew. ... Superman and Batman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ...

Synopsis

Like Captain Atom before him, Zanetti wakes years after the experiment which transformed him. He discovers that his former colleague, Major Mac McClellan, has taken his place in his former family, marrying Katie, and has risen in the military to the rank of General. For some still unknown reasons he decides to tell Zanetti that his family had died the very moment he came to contact with the rift. MacClellan plans to use Zanetti, now dubbed "Breach" as a tool against invasion by the race of transdimensional creatures called the Rifters.

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The Rifters are creatures from the far side of the dimensional rift that created Breach. They need to inhabit and take over human bodies in order to take a physical form. Once in human form, they also possess the same deadly attributes of Breach himself, but are totally enslaved by their natural instincts. The declared goal of the Rifters is the global destruction of what they refer to as "the weak ones," the humans, and a particular Rifter agent, Jakob Kekana. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (519x780, 79 KB) Summary http://comicartcommunity. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (519x780, 79 KB) Summary http://comicartcommunity. ...

Kekana was a young herdsman in Africa when he was possessed and deformed by a Rifter. Now known simply as The Herdsman, he has been sent to track down Zanetti and probe him to discover why he is not bound to the parasitic Rifter mind. He has acquired an unsurpassed power, strong enough to take down even Superman. For still mysterious reasons, Talia al Ghul is helping the Herdsman, who far from considers her a "weak one". A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Superman is a fictional character and superhero of DC Comics who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and is considered the first character to embody the particular combination of traits that characterize the modern superhero. ... Talia al Ghul is a fictional character by DC Comics, the daughter of the supervillain Ras al Ghul, and a love interest of Batman. ...

Breach distances itself from the standard superhero formula by focusing on the tragedy, rather than the triumph, of its title character. Constantly driven to the verge of madness by the Rifter infection in his body and mind, Breach holds onto the memories of his family to keep him sane. This binds him to a strict moral code that, for example, has stopped him from killing two Rifters that possessed innocent children.

Breach has tangled with the Kobra organization and has met up with members of the JLA, including fights with Superman on more than one occasion. The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. ...

Breach was cancelled by DC and the eleventh and final issue was released in November 2005.

Infinite Crisis

It was revealed that if the Multiverse had survived up to the present, Zanetti would have been a native of Earth-Eight as their version of Captain Atom. Zanetti was destroyed by Superboy-Prime rupturing Zanetti's containment field in Infinite Crisis #7. Upon Breach's destruction, Captain Atom materialized in the exact same position where Breach had been. In DC Comics, the Multiverse is a continuity construct in which multiple fictional versions of the universe exist in the same space, separated from each other by their vibrational resonances. ...