Armageddon comprised six one-shots based on six of the relaunched titles,[4][5] and led into successive bi-weekly limited series Wildstorm: Revelations[6][7] and Number of the Beast.

[6][8] These culminated in the World's End storyline, beginning July 2008, which documented worldwide catastrophe and saw several Wildstorm titles relaunched with new creative teams and a new status quo for the universe.

Looking at the landscape of the industry, we realized we needed to move our universe in a different direction, something that the “Big Two” couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do for a long period of time.

They also discover strange disappearances of various super powered heroes and villains from the World War 2 era, resulting in the investigation of various superhuman factions, usually violently.

When the High's presence in the NOTB program destabilized the whole simulation (since he had been present in the 1940s but had been missing from the scenario) and the escaped inmates were captured by the Authority, the Reapers were let loose to clean the whole mess up.

When they exploded in orbit they wreaked havoc on the Earth, prompting warming in the arctic regions and ice ages in the tropics, stripping away key parts of the atmosphere and starting fires that generated vast smog clouds.

He was somehow fully aware of the NOTB program and also kept captive a few thousand posthumans in five separate storage facilities around the world to seemingly be released to coincide with armageddon.

During Black Halo's investigation he and his partner Love Rocket discovered Tao's posthuman storage facilities and freed the inmates, which included a few members of DV8.

The electromagnetism of the crash disabled the Engineer's powers, the global blanket of smog limits Apollo's actions on Earth to only brief periods (since he needs sunlight to survive), and Jack Hawksmoor uses a wheelchair since there are no cities to sustain him.

The forward planning of Hadrian, their former benefactor, means they were well-placed to survive the devastation, but they cannot make any more supplies and need to be wary of over-extending.

Additionally, a legion of Daemonites has moved into Los Angeles claiming homesteading rights, while Mister Majestic, unhinged by the disaster, has set up a kingdom in Hawaii based on Kherubim social mores and technology.