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Blood Syndicate #4 (July 1993):
“Thicker than Blood”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., Arvell Jones, James Fry, etc.

Blood Syndicate #4

Title: “Thicker than Blood”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1993

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr.
Art by: Arvell Jones, James Fry, Andrew Pepoy


16 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.
Brickhouse Brickhouse (Marta) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 40
Third Rail Third Rail (Pui Chung) hero
  Asian; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 44
Boogieman Boogieman (Martin Berger) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 44
Wise Son Wise Son (Hannibal White) hero
CBR Scale: S Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)
black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 59
Rob Chaplik Rob Chaplik supporting character
  Blood Syndicate (ally) DC Milestone Media 10
DMZ DMZ hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 57
Fade Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 56
Flashback Flashback (Sara Quinones) hero
  Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 53
Masquerade Masquerade hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 31
Tech-9 Tech-9 (Rolando Texador) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 22
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Dogg Dogg hero
CBR Scale: M uplifted animal
Blood Syndicate; dog
[normal dog made intelligent by Big Bang Q-Juice]
DC Milestone Media 37
Mom Mom villain
  System DC Milestone Media 7
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
SYSTEMatics SYSTEMatics villain group
  System
[operatives in massive exo-skeletons]
DC Milestone Media 11
Rats of Undertown Rats of Undertown villain group
CBR Scale: D uplifted animals
rat
[members: Black Rat, Scratch, Stripe Rat]
DC Milestone Media 12

Text on cover: "Somebody's Gonna Die."

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=62&):

Rob Chaplik learns that police blew up the Paris Island bridge. We are fully introduced to Mom and the Cross Station System. The Syndicate comes to the rescue of BoogieMan and Brickhouse. The BoogieMan joins the Syndicate as thet get ready to attack the Cross System headquarters which is a hospital.