Cobalt Universe Fiction Timeline

Cobalt City founded – 1723

First Appearance of The Huntsman – 1775

Simon Floyd murdered and reanimated – 1931

Mysterious Five Founded

Icons leave for space, leaving The Keep vacant

Extra-Dimensional Breach invasion stopped at Lafayette Park

The Protectorate founded to replace Icons

Chanson Noir - The Protectorate, with the help of Doctor Shadow, battle the Queen of the Black Sigh across multiple universes.

“Masks: A Gato Loco Story” by Nathan Crowder

“Nutcracker” by Angel Leigh McCoy

Cobalt City Blues - Senior members of The Protectorate are swapped with their evil duplicates from a mirror universe, leaving the defense of Cobalt City in the hands of junior members and reserve.  Meanwhile, the exiled Protectorate have to reunite on a hostile world and find their way home before time runs out.

“A Very Panda Christmas, Everyone!” by Rosemary Jones

“Silent Nights” by Nathan Crowder

“Home for Christmas” by Nicole Burns

Requiem of Ash – The Protectorate face their doom as they discover their most dangerous adversary may be one of their own.  When the dust settles, win or lose, The Protectorate will be no more!

Greetings From Buena Rosa - Snowflake, the hyper-evolved panda mechanic, helps Manuel de la Vega try to save his  cousin from a murder charge in a Mexican factory town.  But the evil and corruption runs deeper than either hero expected, forcing the now crippled vigilante Gato Loco to come out of retirement.

Ride Like the Devil – Once a year, thirty racers gather from all over the world to compete in an illegal cycle race from Mexico to Canada. Big money and bigger bragging rights go to the winner of the Devil’s Run International. Some would do anything to win — even murder.  It falls to Manuel de la Vega and his vigilante alter ego Gato Loco to find this murderer among madmen. Or his friend Xander Tesla might be the next victim.

“Ghost of Christmas Past” by Jeremy Zimmerman