Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (Jan. 1996):
“Great Expectations”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon: A Hero's Welcome

Title: “Great Expectations”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1996

Publisher:
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

18 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Icon (Augustus Freeman) (lead character)	alien	The Shadow Cabinet		73
Rocket (Raquel Ervin)		black; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [Icon's partner]		58
Brickhouse (Marta)		black; Blood Syndicate...  League of Superteens		40
Third Rail (Pui Chung)		Asian; Blood Syndicate...  Korean; League of Superteens		44
Payback (Kevin Franklin)		Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet [man-mountain]		30
Boogieman (Martin Berger)	Jewish	Blood Syndicate		44
Wise Son (Hannibal White)	Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)	black; Blood Syndicate		59
Saul Katz	Jewish	[attorney]		4
Darnice		[Rocket's close friend; temporarily replaced her as "Rocket"]		10
Rob Chaplik		Blood Syndicate (ally)		10
DMZ		black; Blood Syndicate		57
Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.)	LGBT	black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		56
Flashback (Sara Quinones)		Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  League of Superteens		53
Blood Syndicate		[gang]		61
Dakota Chronicle		[newspaper]		2
Josh Thompson		G.R.I.N.D.		2
G.R.I.N.D.		[1st app: Blood Syndicate #3 (June 1993)]		2
Amistad Augustus Ervin (mentioned)  Rocket takes a pregnancy test and learns she is pregnant. (Many issues later, this will be the baby she gives birth to: Amistad.)		black [child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket]		6

This comic was reprinted from: Icon #4 (Aug. 1993): "Great Expectations".

This trade paperback collects the first eight issues of the original Icon series. For more information please see those descriptions. This book contains a foreword by Reginald Hudlin. A new printing volume was published in September 2009.

Notes from original source:
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=188&):

Raquel agonizes over the thought of being pregnant. Augustus considers the problem of the Big Bang and investigates the problem of that evening. Augustus tries to talk to Rob Chaplik, but she is too scared of the Syndicate. Raquel confirms that she is pregnant. Icon searches for the Syndicate and confronts Wise Son. The Blood Syndicate follows.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Icon: A Hero's Welcome (Jan. 1996) created 28 February 2013. Last modified 6 February 2014.

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