Wraith (Image Comics)

Wraith
Wraith, from Dynamo 5 #25 (October 2009). Art by Tim Seeley.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
First appearance	Dynamo 5 #1 (March 2007)
Created by	Jay Faerber Mahmud A. Asrar
In-story information
Alter ego	Spencer Bridges
Species	Half superhuman/Half extraterrestrial
Team affiliations	Dynamo 5
Notable aliases	Myriad, Vigil
Abilities	Expert acrobat and martial artist Superhuman strength, speed and endurance Telepathy Formerly: Shapeshifting

Spencer Bridges is a comic book superhero, and member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears in the series of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, he first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007). He is a half human, half extraterrestrial hybrid, the child of an alien woman and the Earth superhero, Captain Dynamo, from whom he inherited superhuman abilities.

For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possesses shapeshifting abilities and uses the codename Myriad, though for a brief time he masquerades as a female masked vigilante called Vigil, who exhibits superhuman strength, speed, and endurance, and expertise in martial arts and acrobatics. It is later revealed that for some time, he had been taking an illegal drug called Flex, that granted him his elevated strength, speed, and endurance, powers that remained permanently bonded to his half-alien physiology after he ceased taking the drug. In issue #25 of the series (October 2009), the character, whose shapeshifting powers had been erased in the previous issue, obtained different powers, in addition to his superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. Now possessing telepathy, he adopted the codename Wraith.^[1]

With regard to his reasons for making the identity Vigil a female, Bridges has indicated that he is not gay, though not entirely heterosexual either, and that he chose to make the Vigil identity female as an experiment, as his former shapeshifting abilities presented "opportunities".^[2]