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Marvel, the most important thing to know about the ClanDestine is the story of how their bloodline started and the nature of where their powers come from. A five-issue sequel followed in 2008, along with a two-issue X-Men co-starring limited series, and ClanDestine appearances in a handful of annuals for Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Wolverine, all of which including the 2008 series are collected as The ClanDestine: Family Ties (opens in new tab).Īnd that's… pretty much it for the ClanDestine in Marvel Comics.ĭespite their fairly limited appearances, the history of the ClanDestine is remarkably complex, involving different lives lived across different eras of history, numerous intertwining branches of the same family tree, and a whole web of interpersonal relationships and politics to rival the Eternals, Inhumans, and mutants in terms of innately powerful races of people in the Marvel Universe.įor their connection to Ms. Created by writer/artist Alan Davis in 1994's Marvel Comics Presents #158, the origin of The ClanDestine (opens in new tab) was told in a subsequent eight-issue limited series.
(Mar.The ClanDestine are a family line of secretly powerful, immortal beings hiding in the Marvel Universe. 250,000 first printing BOMC selection author tour. The book ends with the protagonist poised to discover the 10th Insight in a promised sequel.
But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched. Redfield has a real talent for page-turning action, and his lightweight quest employs auras, energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine Insights during a series of chance encounters. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditional family values. The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. Originally self-published, the book sold phenomenally, sparked by word of mouth, and may be this year's The Bridges of Madison County -with which it shares some regrettable stylistic similarities. Redfield's debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses's trek up Mt.
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