In the futuristic city of Potentia, genetic super-manipulation through programmable biology has become the next big industry. Super powers are dispensed at high-end power brokerages serving their ultra-rich clientele, but for the average person, there are seedy underworld knock-offs administered in bargain basement “chop shops” which often result in horrible mutations and death — you get what you pay for.
Criminal Power Jackers obtain these illicit powers to further their nefarious ends. To police the growing threat, a new government agency is created — The Central Brokering Agency (CBA) — whose Agents, or Power Brokers, are endowed with a crack assortment of super powers themselves. Power Brokers hunt Power Jackers, illegal chop shop operators, and serve the general populace of Potentia.
Mason Cleaver and Kira Bedford are two such CBA Power Brokers and partners, true forces for justice.
Both arrived at the Agency through personal tragedies involving super power, so both know the darker side of power brokering firsthand.
Eva “Madame” Duvray is the owner and CEO of Pinnacle Laboratories, the largest power brokerage on the planet. For 30 years, the silver-haired vixen has lavished the people of Potentia with every manner of power at her disposal, endearing herself as their darling super-star and matron saint. But behind the curtain of her far-flung empire, she desires more power—absolute control—and she has the means of exacting it, a fool-proof plan that involves removing the vaunted heroes of the CBA along with their longtime leader, Director Robertson.
When a Power Jacker is apprehended, his powers are revoked by activation of a CBA-issued Rescinder—a device that “shocks” a Jacker’s genome back to normalcy, thereby revoking his super-powers. The Rescinder deploys a genetic block into a violator’s chromosomes called a “chastity belt”, preventing any future upgrade and effectively eliminating recidivism. When one Power Jacker is discovered to be a former super-powered violator whose powers were revoked and whose DNA was blocked by a past chastity belt application, the CBA realizes they have an unprecedented threat on their hands that could spell chaos for Potentia. Someone has learned to overwrite the CBA's chastity code trump card, creating an open season for criminal Power Jackers!
If you are just getting into Power Broker, this is a good place to start! Madame Duvray unleashes her Devils - the converted inmates of Potentia Supermax Prison - on the psychic, Scylla, her protectorate Power Broker entourage, and Card’s Anti-Power League paramilitary.
Major battle and bloodshed ensue! Not to be missed by any true comic aficionado!
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