Xenobrood is a superhero team appearing in books published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Xenobrood #0 (October 1994). The series was created by Doug Moench and Tomm Coker.
Publication history
Xenobrood #0 was launched as part of DC Comics' Zero Hour event. This was the only mini series marketed from that event as all the other series were regular series.
Fictional history
The Xenobrood are four superbeings processed from thousand year old alien crystals discovered by archaeologist Zecharia Leight on a dig in Kuwait near the Iraq border. Leight discovers several Sumerian cuneiform tablets and a chrome cylinder in archaeological strata dated to the 4th millennium BCE. He takes the Sumerian cylinder to both NASA and S.T.A.R. Labs, neither organization was able to analyze it. He ends up taking the cylinder to Creighton Engineering, and their "Laser Enhanced Spectrographic Analysis