Defex is a comic book

Comic book

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 series printed by Aftermath

Aftermath (comics)

Aftermath was a super hero comic book imprint published by Devil's Due Publishing. A brainchild of Josh Blaylock, the new imprint aimed to establish a new, accessible, continuity-free universe that could lated be expanded into a series of multi-media franchises...

 (itself an imprint of Devil's Due Productions). It was first published in October 2004

2004 in comics

-February:*February 6: Marvel Enterprises and Electronic Arts announce a multi-year agreement in which EA will develop a new generation of fighting video games pitting Marvel superheroes against a new, original set of EA heroes....

. Its creators are Marv Wolfman

Marv Wolfman

Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.-1960s:...

 (writer), Stefano Caselli (pencils), and Sunder Raj (colors). Six issues of Defex have been printed.

DeFex is also a musician who makes computer and synthesizer music
DeFex is continuing to make music now. music can be found at chillproductions.com under the name "jim matheson"

Plot

The story is set around a group of students taking a college course in which they are asked to list ways in which society could benefit from the application of nanotubes

Carbon nanotube

Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1, significantly larger than for any other material...

. They are assigned together apparently at random, and they decide their topic: using nanotubes to alter human DNA

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...

, giving them access to abilities which are latent in the human genome. When they present their thesis, the university refuses to let them test it. During the night they test the nanotubes upon themselves and awake with superhuman abilities.

It has been implied that the experiment that gave them their powers has some connection to Jeff Carey, aka Breakdown

Breakdown (comics)

Breakdown was a comic published by Devil's Due Productions as part of their Aftermath line. It began in October 2004, and was written by Chuck Dixon, and drawn by Dave Ross....

, who stars in another of Aftermath's titles.

Developments

The series is on hiatus, and will resume after a company-wide crossover of DDP's titles.

Characters

• Ariel Davis (alias Six) - A young woman who has all of her senses heightened to a super human level, with an extra sixth sense
  Extra-sensory perception
  Extrasensory perception involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was coined by Frederic Myers, and adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and...
  
  
• Jack Morgan (alias Idol) - A young man with the ability to control pheromones and hormones at will
• Mia Sanchez (alias Rush) - Young woman who is able to control her adrenaline
• Haley Rin (alias Chimera) - Young man who has animal-like transformations, limited to vertebrates
• Tristan Warfield - A teen who wields a mysterious power