The Brotherhood of Dada

If ever a wackier group of supervillains existed, I haven't met them yet. However, the Brotherhood of Dada could give them a run for their money, I'm sure. Not quite evil, but nowhere near good... They are the heralds of the insane, the lords of the bizarre and confusing, the champions of non-ideas. Everything art stands for, they do not--just like dada itself. They just screamed to be drawn. So I did. Among their ranks:

Mr. Nobody: Formerly Mr. Morden of the Brotherhood of Evil, he was never heard of. Nobody knew him. He underwent a bizarre experiment in the legendary White Room of Auschwitz, which transformed him into something much more than before. He's Mr. Nobody. He looks as if you're seeing him out of the corner of your eye, and he's quite insane. And he can spread that insanity to others. He founded and leads the Brotherhood of Dada.

Sleepwalk: A young London girl with a peculiar power. She has tremendous amounts of power and energy--but only while asleep. So she listens to Barry Manilow and takes sleeping pills before battle.

The Fog: An otherwise unremarkable man who can transform himself into a psychedelic death cloud. He has the power to absorb people right into his own consciousness--but they're still aware, and their incessant chatter is slowly driving him quite mad.

Frenzy: An illiterate black man with a kind heart, bicycle wheels on his back, and the ability to transform himself into a living cyclone.

The Quiz: A Japanese woman with a pathological fear of dirt. She keeps it away by wrapping herself in a self-contained hazmat suit and breathing apparatus. She also has, literally, every superpower you haven't thought of yet. To make her lose a power, shout out its name. Now she can't use that with you around.

Agent !: He comes as no surprise. Completely lacking the element of surprise, Agent ! (now how do you pronounce that?) can blend into any crowd. No matter what he's doing or wearing, no one will take any notice of him or those in close proximity.

Alias the Blur: The ghost of a mirror that eats time. Once there was an attractive German girl who fell in love with her reflection in the mirror. However, as the years passed, the reflection began to distort and warp. Lines grew, and she became less pretty. So she plotted the murder of the mirror. Warping it with battery acid, however, just made the reflections more twisted. So she blew out half her brain with a gun and died against the mirror. The mirror's ghost later came back as Alias the Blur. Its cracked and warped glass can't properly reflect, and instead steal time away from those reflected, aging them.

The Love Glove: Hung up on the '60s, a young man continously dreamed of a tree with gloves growing on it. Plucking one off and putting it on, he instantly woke up--to discover that his arms had completely vanished. However, he still had the glove--the Love Glove--which he could manipulate as if he were wearing it. He can also enter the dream again and find new gloves, each with its own power.

Number None: Having no physical presence, Number None is impossible to draw, yet still in the picture. He is the uncatchable supervillain, the Secret Identity. He has been everyone and everything at least once. He is the bus that you miss, the coffee you spill, the dollar you drop in the sewer. He is everything that can go wrong in a person's day. He is possibly among the most powerful, and yet least threatening, member of the Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood of Dada © Vertigo Comics