Alternate Covers

Cover A

Cover B

Cover C (Retail Incentive)

Notes of Interest

First Appearance of Error 404

Major Players

Joes: Ace, Dial Tone, Hard Drive, Lighthorse, Mainframe, Spreadsheet

Cobra: Error 404

Others: Dr. Stephen Mochault, Chevalier

Creative Team

"The End of Denial of Service"

Writer: Chuck Dixon
Artist: SL Gallant
Inker: Juan Castro
Colorist: Aburtov & Juan Foo
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Consulting Editor: John Barber
Editor: Carlos Guzman




Cover Credits
Cover A: Artist: Paul Gulacy, Colors by Aburtov
Cover Company: IDW

Cover B: Artist: SL Gallant
Cover Company: IDW

Cover C (Retail Incentive): Artist: SL Gallant
Cover Company: IDW

Full Details

-- United Nations, New York City, New York
Two UN Ambassadors from two former Soviet Republics get in fist fight on the General Assembly floor, which escalates overnight to a real invasion and really bloody fighting soldiers.

-- Aeroport Charles DeGaulle, Paris, France
Three gunmen from the Red Martyr Brigade went on killing spree in France’s biggest airport. During the attack Dr. Stephen Mochault was shot, a key figure in reaching the peace agreement between the two former Soviet Republics currently at war. The gunman where all killed. Dr. Mochault is currently in surgery.

-- On an US Air Force plane
Mainframe is briefing Dial Tone, Hard Drive and Spreadsheet on how he believes Cobra is behind it all.

-- Unknown Cobra Computer Lab
A news report informing the world that Dr. Stephen Mochault is still alive and critical condition plays as Cobra computer hacker Error 404 learns his assassins have failed. He hacks into the hospitals computer and changes the medication amounts to lethal doses. But before it can be changed Dial Tone hacks into his system, shuts it down and gets a trace on his location which is in Singapore.

-- Tiong Poh Street, Singapore
Several SWAT type police officers break into an apartment, where they discover a computer with a radar dish next to it and donkey with a lipstick mark on its tail end smiling at the police officers. Dial Tone has been defeated.

-- Unknown Cobra Computer Lab
Error 404 is laughing at the Joes failure to track him, when Cobra Commander interrupts him. The Commander wants to know why the Dr. Stephen Mochault is still alive and if Error 404 can deal with it. He nervously assures the Commander that he can.

-- On an US Air Force plane flown by Ace and Lighthorse
Mainframe is talking to Chevalier, a masked French soldier, who is currently guarding Dr. Mochault. He informs him that he is being moved back to surgery. Error 404 has begun an assault on the hospital, cutting the gas, creating a flash mob on the hotel grounds, almost 100 cyber attacks to different areas of the hospital. He is hacking the power grid when Spreadsheet hacks him back preventing the power shutdown. At the same time his hack connects what is on Error 404’s screen to a monitor on their plane. They watch a drone monitor camera flying over the French countryside. They realize Error 404 is flying it towards the hospital. Mainframe tries to hack in to take away control of the drone. But Error 404 defeats his hack. So Mainframe has the pilot, Lighthorse, change direction to intercept the drone and radio the French to see if they can intercept it.

Two French fight jets approach the drone, but Error 404 using a joystick to fly the drone in directions no human plane could go comes up right underneath a Commercial airliner headed into Paris. The fighter jets can’t get at it.

Mainframe begins unpacking his wing flying suit as Hard Drive tries to talk him out being insane. But Mainframe is determined to stop the drone. So after he is suited up he jumps out of the plane well above the commercial airliner which is above the drone.

He lands on the wing of the commercial airliner, secures himself to it with a rope, drops off the back of the wing and aims his grenade launcher at the drone, they are over Eiffel Tower. His first shot misses but his second one hits the mark, destroying the drone. Error 404 is mad. Mainframe detaches from the airplane and glides to the ground.

Dr. Stephen Mochault appears on television in his hospital bed informing the world that he has secured peace with the former Soviet countries.

-- Sarajevo
A squad of Cobra Vipers descends from a helicopter; rush into a building only to find an empty Cobra computer lab. Cobra Commander appears on the screen telling the Vipers to hunt down Error 404. Around the corner Error 404 is paying a taxi driver to take him anywhere but Paris.

Summary by Josh Eggebeen