Shear was created by writer Peter B. Gillis and artist Brent Anderson and debuted in Strikeforce: Morituri #13 (December 1987).

However, the process also had a fatal side-effect: it inevitably claimed the lives of its recipients within a year, due to an unsolvable flaw.

Eager to fight the Horde, Feyzioglu applied for the process and was qualified as one of the few genetically eligible to undertake it.

Thanks to the process, he developed the ability to disrupt molecular bonds from a meter away, for both inorganic and organic matter.

[2] He also proved undisciplined and often defied his superiors, the Paedia World Government, feeling that the Morituri were exploited and used as expendable pawns.