NTB Timeline

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Net.Trenchcoat Brigade Timeline, or What Bloody Stuff Goes In What Bloody Order

Based on the work of Arthur Spitzer. Format by Mike Escutia.

This timeline also includes any Classic LNH stories directly relevant to the NTB, which are marked with an [L], and stories from other RACC imprints, which are marked with an [R].

It's not unreasonable to assume that the NTB stories take place in something closer to "real time," much like Vertigo's Hellblazer, but as always, it depends on the individual story.

See also the Classic LNH Timeline.

Title and Issue Author(s)
The Pre-Wave [1]
1992
Integrity Quest [L] Hubert Bartels, Stephane Savoie and Doug Wojtowicz [2]
1993
Vertical Plain #1-3 [L] Stephane Savoie
The Bellerophon Gambit [L] Dave Van Domelen [3]
The First Wave [4]
Esoterica: Rebirth (beginning) Christopher Gilmore [5]
Wrath of the Administrator begins
Prologue Stewart Fyfe
Part One Christopher Tatro
Part Two Steve Ward-Smith
Part Three Tara Lynn O'Shea
Part Four Christopher Tatro
Three Interludes Ken Primer
Jellomancer Mystery Theatre #1 Timothy Toner
Part Six Paul Hardy
Part Seven Christopher Tong
Part Eight Stewart Fyfe
Jellomancer Mystery Theatre #2 Timothy Toner
Part Ten Scott Emery
Part Eleven Steve Ward-Smith
Part Twelve William Kaufman
Something Happens! #1 Andrew Farrell
Part Fourteen Glenn Carnagey
Part Fifteen Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
Part Sixteen Tara Lynn O'Shea
Part Seventeen Andre Condon
Vertical Plain Special [L] Stephane Savoie
Jellomancer Mystery Theatre #3 Timothy Toner
Part Twenty Stewart Fyfe
Part Twenty-One Scott Emery
Something Happens! #2 Various
Ultimate Mercenary #7 (Wrath of the Administrator scene) [L] Jeanne Morningstar
Part Twenty-Three Paul Hardy
Part Twenty-Four Tara Lynn O'Shea
Part Twenty-Five William Kaufman
Part Twenty-Six Christopher Tong
Esoterica #1 Christopher Gilmore & Stewart Fyfe
Part Twenty-Eight Paul Hardy
Brief Cases #1 Steve Ward-Smith
Part Thirty Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
Something Happens! #3 Andrew Farrell
Part Thirty-Two Paul Hardy
Part Thirty-Three Scott Emery
Part Thirty-Four ThingFish
Brief Cases #2 Steve Ward-Smith
Jellomancer Mystery Theatre #4 Timothy Toner
Part Thirty-Seven Andre Condon
Part Thirty-Eight Scott Emery
Part Thirty-Nine Christopher Tong & Glenn Carnagey
Part Forty Paul Hardy
Part Forty-One Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
Brief Cases #3 Steve Ward-Smith
Epilogue Various
An Apocryphal Tale Christopher Tong
Wrath of the Administrator ends
Esoterica: Rebirth (end) Christopher Gilmore
Return of the Incharger #1-3 Christopher Tong
Question/Ramaj Crossover begins
Quest Quest Scott Emery
Untitled Story Scott Emery & Andre Condon
Hunting the Hunter #1 Andre Condon
Question/Ramaj Crossover ends
Vertical Plain #4-6 [L] Stephane Savoie
Dangerous Collectibles? Craig Welsh
Raw Shark Returns Mark Steyn
Masque of the Red Death Virus Michael McAfee
1994
Bad Forms begins [L] [6]
The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man #6 Rob Rogers
Errand Boy #3 Stirge
Pliable Lad #9 Mike Escutia
Constellation #13 Dave Van Domelen
Tales of the LNH #297 Hubert Bartels
The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man #7-8 Rob Rogers
Constellation #14-15 Dave Van Domelen
The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man #9 Rob Rogers
Pliable Lad #10 Mike Escutia
Constellation #16 Dave Van Domelen
The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man #10 Rob Rogers
Bad Forms ends
Barnstable Incident #1-4 Paul Hardy [7]
Thirteen's Somethings #1 Steve Ward-Smith
The Second Wave [8]
Netrigan #0-5 Mario Di Giacomo
The Summoning begins
The Summoning #1 Chris Gumprich
Whatever Happened to LJC? Tara Lynn O'Shea
The Summoning #2 Chris Gumprich
Thirteen's Somethings #2-3 Steve Ward-Smith
Net.Force #1 Chris Gumprich
Thirteen's Somethings #4 Steve Ward-Smith
Net.Force #2 Chris Gumprich & Markian Hlynka
Netrigan #6-7 Mario Di Giacomo
Net.Force #3-4 Chris Gumprich
The Summoning ends
Retcon Hour begins [9]
Retcon Happy Hour Paul Hardy
Legion of Occult Heroes #0 [L] Paul Hardy
LNH Comics Presents #21 [L] Matt Rossi & Jeff McCoskey
Retcon Hour Omega [L] Various
Retcon Hour ends
Fall of the Daemon Mario Di Giacomo
Voyd #1-8 Chris Gumprich
Reve Arcane #1-6 Jon Scott Hall
Legion of Occult Heroes #4 [L] Paul Hardy [10]
The Dummies Guide to Magic Begins
Voyd #9 Chris Gumprich
Reve Arcane #7 Jon Scott Hall
Voyd #10 Chris Gumprich
Legion of Occult Heroes Special [L] Paul Hardy
Return of the Incharger #4-5 Christopher Tong
The Dummies Guide to Magic Ends
1995
Return of the Incharger #6 Christopher Tong
Voyd #11-15 Chris Gumprich
Net.Force II #1 Chris Gumprich
Voyd #16-18 Chris Gumprich
Swordmaster #21 [L] Matt Rossi [11]
Legion of Occult Heroes #7 [L] Paul Hardy
Dance of the Daemon #1-8 Mario Di Giacomo
The Post-Wave [12]
1996
On the Deadbeat #1-3 Arthur Spitzer
1997
Bluey #1-2 Saxon Brenton
Coat of Chaos #0-2 Christopher Tong
1999
Simon Velcro #1 [L] Amabel Holland [13]
2002
Tim Harris and the Soul of the City Dave Van Domelen [14]
2006
A Guy in a Trenchcoat Fighting Ninjas #1 Arthur Spitzer
A Guy in a Trenchcoat Fighting Ninjas #1a Dave Van Domelen
An Obnoxious Guy in Spandex Fighting Guys in Trenchcoats Fighting Ninjas #1 [L] Amabel Holland
2008
Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #25 Saxon Brenton [15]
Beige Midnight begins
On the Deadbeat Special: Beige Happy Hour Arthur Spitzer
Beige Midnight #7-8 [L] Arthur Spitzer
Beige Midnight ends
2009
Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #33 Saxon Brenton
2011
Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #42 Saxon Brenton
2012
Who Killed the Cat With Glasses? [L/R] Arthur Spitzer, Rob Rogers, Saxon Brenton and Scott Eiler
Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #56 Scott Eiler
2013
Legion of Net.Heroes Volume 2 #57 Saxon Brenton
The Lunaverse Age [16]
2015
The Gallant Appearance of the Total Bastards Drew Nilium
Another LNH Title? Really? #4 [L] Drew Nilium
2016
WikiLull Begins [L]
WikiLull #9 Scott Eiler
WikiLull #10 Jeanne Morningstar
WikiLull #11 Drew Nilium
WikiLull #12 Jeanne Morningstar
WikiLull #13 Drew Nilium
WikiLull #14 Scott Eiler
WikiLull #15 George Phillies
WikiLull #16 Drew Nilium
WikiLull After #1 Drew Nilium
WikiLull After #2 Jeanne Morningstar
WikiLull After #3 Drew Nilium
WikiLull After #4 Jeanne Morningstar
WikiLull Visions #1-2 Drew Nilium
WikiLull BREAK Drew Nilium
WikiLull After #4.5 Jeanne Morningstar
Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #6 (flashback) Jeanne Morningstar
Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #6.66 Arthur Spitzer
WikiLull EXHALE Drew Nilium
WikiLull Ends
2018
The Liminals #5-6 [L] Jeanne Morningstar
2020
Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #6pi.VI.6 [L] Jeanne Morningstar
Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths! #49-50 [L] Jeanne Morningstar and Drew Nilium
2026
Academy of Super-Heroes #107-109 [R] Dave Van Domelen [17]
2027
Academy of Super-Heroes #122-123 [R] Dave Van Domelen [17]

Currently missing entries for Death of Elvis Man and Fortune's Wheel #1

Footnotes

  1. The Pre-Wave involves the beginnings of various LNH characters who play a key role in the NTB Universe. It could also be said that Swamp Thing #50 and the Books of Magic LS could be placed here too.
  2. Integrity Quest contains the first appearance of Kid Anarky.
  3. The Bellerophon Gambit contains the Dvandom Stranger's origin and first appearance.
  4. This is the true beginning of the NTB.
  5. Esoterica: Rebirth is mostly set before the Wrath of the Administrator, but was also written a long time after it and contains some references to WotA, so it would probably be best to read WotA first.
  6. Bad Forms was an LNH crossover that had Acton Lord revive the NTB's arch-nemesis, the Universal Office, kind of a sequel to the WotA. It also had Kid Anarky and the Dvandom Stranger in it.
  7. The Barnstable Incident part 4 is not in the archives, and can be read here.
  8. After creating the Wrath of the Administrator, most of the Authors succumbed to that dreaded malady Apathy and the NTB dropped off the face of the Earth. It wasn't until several months later that a man named Chris Gumprich resurrected the NTB again, leading to another golden era of spine-tingling entertainment. Then all of those writers left. Hmm... there might be a pattern here.
  9. For the complete listing of Retcon Hour stories, check the Classic LNH Timeline. The only ones listed here involve the Mis-Adventures of GrimSloth and Wiloughby Withnail as they become spandexers. Retcon Hour probably happened at about the same time as The Summoning.
  10. Legion of Occult Heroes #4 contains a cameo by Malcolm Barnstable and also the death of an alternate Dvandom Stranger.
  11. In the Load Island Renegades/Legion of Occult Heroes crossover, Malcolm Barnstable makes some revelations about the Incorporate Conspiracy.
  12. After 1995, there were a handful of attempts at new NTB series, but the NTB as an imprint ultimately died out, beyond the occasional one-shot and/or LNH story with NTB elements. To a certain extent, it became redundant; serious and Acraphobic LNH series like Misfits and Net.Heroes on Parade have used inspiration from Vertigo without any ties to the NTB. There's a good case to be made that LNHY became the LNH's answer to Vertigo after A Devil Came Down to Georgia. As well, Vertigo itself moved away from Moore/Gaiman-inspired demi-superheroic supernatural series to other things, publishing many well-regarded creator-owned series before finally closing its doors in 2020. But the vaguely noirish trenchcoated hero archetype still persists in urban fantasy series like the Dresden Files, which would go on to inspire the Lunaverse...
  13. Simon Velcro appeared in several LNH stories as Bladder Infection Lad, but those will not be listed here, because come on.
  14. This story, a reaction to the destruction of Sig.ago in The Team, belongs to a since-retconned alternate timeline of the Looniverse, as established in President Evil.
  15. The first in a series of one-shot Misanthropic Tales of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade by Saxon Brenton.
  16. For a long while, the NTB seemed pretty thoroughly dead. However, as a wise man once said, "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange aeons even Apathy may die." In this case the resurrection was done by Drew Nilium, who decided to take a different approach to supernatural weirdness in the Looniverse, drawing on urban fantasy and YA fiction— the Lunaverse. WikiLull illustrated the transition from NTB to Lunaverse, establishing a milieu where new waves and genres of magic had come into being, distinct but taking inspiration from the NTB.
    Lunaverse stories will only be included in the NTB Timeline if they involve NTB characters or concepts.
  17. 17.0 17.1 ASH #107-109 are a story where the Multiversal Office interacts with the setting and characters of the ASH imprint. Later, during the "City of Night" storyline, ASH attempts to use the Office as a way to travel to the otherwise-inaccessible city of Berlin.