Barb Wire

Barb Wire is a fictional character appearing in Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. Created by Chris Warner and Team CGW, the character first appeared in Comics' Greatest World: Steel Harbor in 1993. The original Barb Wire series published nine issues between 1994 and 1995 and was followed by a four-issue miniseries in 1996. A reboot was published in 2015 and lasted eight issues. In 1996, the character was adapted into a film starring Pamela Anderson. Unlike the comics, the film takes place in a possible future rather than an alternate version of present-day Earth. Creators Regular series 1: John Arcudi, writer/ Lee Moder, pencils/Ande Parks, inks 2–3: Arcudi, writer/ Dan Lawlis, pencils/Parks, inks 4–5: Arcudi, writer/Lawlis, pencils/Ian Akin, inks 6–7: Arcudi, writer/Mike Manley, pencils/Parks, inks 8: Arcudi, writer/ Andrew Robinson, pencils/ Jim Royal, inks 9: Anina Bennett & Paul Guinan, writers/ Robert Walker, pencils/Jim Royal, inks Ace of Spades miniseries 1–4: Chris Warner, script and pencils/Tim Bradstreet, inks Fictional character biography Barb Wire's stories take place on an alternate version of present-day Earth with superhumans and more advanced technology. In this Earth's history, an alien entity called the Vortex arrived in 1931 and began conducting secret experiments. In 1947, an atom bomb test detonated in a desert nearby the alien's experiments. The result was the creation of a trans-dimensional wormhole referred to as "the Vortex" or "the Maelstrom", which released energy that gave different people across Earth superpowers for years to come.