Over the next couple of months, news about the Neo-Gas spread through the superhuman community like wildfire. Neo Ranks, the top news site for all things super, was the first to break the news on the Internet with a press release from the G-Men announcing the Guardians’ creation and use of Neo-Gas. The information then spread from there until it seemed like you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about the dreaded Neo-Gas. Even the mainstream news outlets like Central News Network talked about it, as I discovered when I saw a video clip online from Mark Dane’s interview with Shade about the dangers of Neo-Gas.
But I don’t think anyone really grasped just how terrible Neo-Gas was until a week after we assaulted the factory. In Illinois, half a dozen supers—including two NHA members—were
