Noble Causes: Distant Relatives

    (Image, 2003)
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Writer Jay Faerber’s (Titans) Noble Causes: First Impressions introduced the Nobles, a famous super-hero family whose antics and adventures are the stuff of tabloid television. Their story is continued from the four-issue Noble Causes limited series and in its four-issue follow-up, Noble Causes: Family Secrets.

More soap opera than traditional super-hero opus, this third limited series—in glorious black and white—picks up just after the events in the second and focuses on Liz, the speedster Race Noble’s widow and a normal woman who has remained close to the Noble family; Frost, Gaia Noble’s illegitimate son; Rusty, Doc and Gaia Noble’s eldest son, whose brain has been transplanted into a robot body; and Krennick, the son of the Nobles’ greatest enemy who is in love with Zephyr, the youngest of the Noble children. The illicit love affairs and double-crosses that plague the Noble family continue in Distant Relatives, and makes for an interesting spin on the super-hero genre.

— Thomas Moudry
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Noble Causes: Distant Relatives #1

July, 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
6 copies available from $1.75 		Jay FaerberIan Richardson, Andres Ponce
Noble Causes: Distant Relatives #2

September, 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
7 copies available from $1.75 		Jay FaerberAndres Ponce, Shane Davis
Noble Causes: Distant Relatives #3

September, 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
6 copies available from $1.50 		Jay FaerberAndres Ponce, Ray-Anthony Height
Noble Causes: Distant Relatives #4

October, 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
8 copies available from $1.75 		Jay FaerberAndres Ponce, Ethen Beavers
Noble Causes: Distant Relatives Book #1

January, 2005
Cover Price: $12.95
1 copy available for $12.00 		Jay FaerberFran Bueno