Reborn (story arc)

***Reborn*** is the core title of *Black Hammer* Phase II. Written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Caitlin Yarsky, this twelve-issue series picks up twenty years after the events of *Black Hammer: Age of Doom*.

## Synopsis

### Part One

It's twenty years later after the events of *Black Hammer: Age of Doom*, and Lucy is living in the suburbs of Spiral City, with her partner and children. But all is not blissful. Her marriage is falling apart, her job has reached a dead end, and for mysterious reasons, she hasn't picked up the hammer in years. But, as her domestic life begins to crumble, the secrets of the last twenty years, and the reasons Lucy really gave up being Black Hammer, begin to resurface, threatening her family, and the peace she has tried hard to find for herself.

### Part Two

Lucy Weber, formerly the powerful hero Black Hammer, is struggling to keep her daughter from following the same path of heroism—a battle she's seems destined to lose as the family is confronted with spatial warps, shark monsters, and familiar faces from the past that threaten to bring more violence into their lives than they ever wanted.

### Part Three

Twenty years ago, Lucy Weber fought madmen and monsters—today she finds her marriage falling apart and her children in danger. And now past threats—and rogue heroes—return to herald the end of the world!

### Part Four

Twenty years ago, Lucy Weber fought Spiral City's greatest villains as the heroic Black Hammer--today she finds her marriage falling apart and her children in danger with new threats wreaking havoc on her world and some of Black Hammer's greatest heroes returning to aid her in saving it from destruction.

### Part Five

A multidimensional nightmare unfolds and wrecks chaos on Spiral City as the powerful superhero known as the Black Hammer joins forces with the brutal vigilante known as the Skulldigger to put an end to this madness.

### Part Six

A multidimensional nightmare continues to wreck-havoc on Spiral City as bizarre versions of Black Hammer heroes come face-to-face with the brutal vigilante known as the Skulldigger.

### Part Seven

The mad space-faring adventurer Colonel Weird and his trusty robot companion Talky-Walky have spent months mapping out the bizarre intricacies of the Para-zone only to find themselves trapped in a interdimensional nightmare in which there is no escape!

### Part Eight

The madness continues as the bizarre astronaut Colonel Weird and his robot companion Talky-Walky face a second Cataclysm where Black Hammer-world heroes and villains across space and time are thrown together in an all-out brawl!

### Part Nine

Things have gotten crazy in Black Hammer! First a parallel Spiral City collided with the actual one, spawning a multiverse nightmare of heroes and villains from both worlds going to war, and now Lucy Weber picks back up the mantle of Black Hammer and teams up with Skulldigger for answers on how to end the madness.

### Part Ten

Lucy Weber has been searching for her father for years, and when he finally appears at her door, he turns out to be from an evil dimension—will she take his Faustian offer to be a family again or face off to prove there can only be one Black Hammer?!

### Part Eleven

Black Hammer's family finds themselves trapped in bizarre limbo land in which they meet some familiar faces from the skies of Spiral City.

### Part Twelve

Multiple worlds collide in this final issue of the hit Black Hammer superhero saga where villains and heroes unite to stop the multiverse from unraveling.

## Publishing history

From *Black Hammer: Reborn* #5 to #8, the series featured the back-up story *The Case of the Electric Boy*, which has a narrative running parallel to the events of *Reborn*.

## Cover gallery

*Black Hammer: Reborn* #1
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #1
variant by Jeff Lemire
and Dave Stewart*Black Hammer: Reborn* #2
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #2
variant by Jill Thompson*Black Hammer: Reborn* #3
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #3
variant by Fiona Stephenson*Black Hammer: Reborn* #4
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #4
variant by Dave Johnson*Black Hammer: Reborn* #5
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #5
variant by Malachi Ward & Matt Sheean*Black Hammer: Reborn* #5
*Tales from the Farm* variant by Vanesa Del Rey*Black Hammer: Reborn* #6
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #6
variant by Malachi Ward & Matt Sheean*Black Hammer: Reborn* #7
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #7
variant by Malachi Ward & Matt Sheean*Black Hammer: Reborn* #8
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #8
variant by Malachi Ward & Matt Sheean*Black Hammer: Reborn* #9
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #9
variant by Aaron Conley*Black Hammer: Reborn* #10
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #10
variant by Andrea Mutti*Black Hammer: Reborn* #11
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #11
variant by Stefano Simeone*Black Hammer: Reborn* #12
by Caitlin Yarsky*Black Hammer: Reborn* #12
variant by Raul Allen
## Trivia

* In *Black Hammer: Reborn* #1, a cinema billboard advertises film called *Gideon Falls* starring Norton Sinclair. This is a nod to the comic *Gideon Falls* created by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, published by Image Comics.