All of this theatre so that many might witness the greatest contest of champions... a gladiator whose very life is a game. A game played against himself.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The End Woman
- Goldon
- Crimzor
- Pugsmasher (Karl Snortenthau)
- Rictor (Julio Richter)
Antagonists:
- Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) (Apparent death)
- Xeus (Death)
Other Characters:
- Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
- Windsong (Mentioned)
- Mojo V
- Spiral (Rita Wayword)
- New Mutants
- Za (Mentioned)
- Goldon
- Crimzor
- Tina Cooke
- Mojo V (Mentioned)
- Cadre Alliance (Mentioned)
- Gringrave (Mentioned)
- Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) (Mentioned)
- Prime Mover (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Maestro (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- Death (Mentioned)
- Za (Invoked)
- Christina Cooke (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Name revealed)
- Death Sponsors (Mentioned)
- Spiral (Rita Wayword) (Mentioned)
- Windsong (Mentioned)
- Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor) (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Galactus (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- Anesthesia
- Anesthesia's Father
- Kid Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (First appearance)
- Gabbi Sotelo
- Mitzi Moscowitz
Races and Species:
- Mutants
- Spineless Ones (Main story and recap)
- Cyborgs (Only in recap)
- Unidentified alien species
- Humans
- Horusians
- Cosmic Beings
- Dogs
- Alien Gods (Mentioned)
- Gods (Mentioned)
- Mutant-Demon Hybrids
Locations:
- Multiverse (Mentioned)
- Mojoverse (Vision or hallucination)
- The Wildways (Vision or hallucination)
- Mojoworld (Mentioned)
- What if Shatterstar had never joined the Blood Cadre Alliance? reality
- Prime Marvel Universe
- Milky Way
- Horus
- Horus IV
- The Mount
- The Amphitheatre on the Mount
- The Mount
- Horus IV
- Sol System
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Queens
- College Point
- 15th Avenue
- Manor Crossing
- 15th Avenue
- College Point
- Queens
- New York City
- Mississippi (Mentioned)
- Biloxi (Mentioned)
- New York
- Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- Blue Area of the Moon (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Venus (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Horus
- Hell (Mentioned)
- Scorpus Citadel (Mentioned)
- Milky Way
- "Earth-1218"
- Mojoverse (Vision or hallucination)
Items:
- Shatterstar's Swords
- X-Uniforms
- Universal Translator (Behind the scenes)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• The Grandmaster’s game reaches final jeopardy...
• Shatterstar goes toe-to-toe with the only opponent with a prayer of taking him down...himself!
• Plus: One of Shatty’s tenants fulfills their destiny!