| Issue | #2 |
| Published | May 2009 |
| Cover Price | 3.99 US |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Matt Gagnon |
| Notes | The 1st printing of this issue shipped with three covers, as indexed below. Per indicia: Copyright [2009] Boom! Studios. Printed in Canada. |
| Characters | The Plutonian; Kaidan |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | John Cassaday (signed) |
| Inks | John Cassaday (signed) |
| Colors | Laura Martin (signed) |
| Notes | This cover shipped in a 1:1 ratio with Cover B. Its art was used without color for the 2nd printing. |
| Reprinted | in Irredeemable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009) [art only] |
| Characters | Scylla; Charybdis |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Dennis Calero |
| Inks | Dennis Calero |
| Colors | Dennis Calero |
| Notes | This cover shipped in a 1:1 ratio with Cover A. |
| Reprinted | in Irredeemable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009) [art only] |
| Characters | Kaidan |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Inks | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Colors | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Notes | Spokes' variant covers to #1-12 will spell out "Irredeemable". This cover features the first R. It was offered to retailers as a 1-in-25 incentive. A "negative" variant using this cover's art also exists, as indexed below. |
| Reprinted | in Irredeemable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009) [art only] |
| Characters | The Plutonian; Kaidan |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | John Cassaday (signed) |
| Inks | John Cassaday (signed) |
| Notes | For the 2nd printing of this issue Cassaday's black-&-white art to Cover B was used, with typography in red. |
| Reprinted | in Irredeemable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009) [art only] |
| Characters | Kaidan |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Inks | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Colors | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Notes | This variant, exclusive to retailer A Comic Shop and limited to 500 copies, uses Spokes' art to Cover C in "negative". |
| Characters | Kaidan |
| Pencils | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Inks | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Colors | Jeffrey Spokes |
| Letters | ? (logo, design); typeset |
| Notes | The inside front cover has logo, credits, and indicia set against negative red-&-black detail of Cover A. |
| Characters | The Plutonian [Dan Hartigan]; The Paradigm [Kaidan; Qubit]; Alana Patel (introduction); Alana Patel's four co-workers [all unnamed] (flashback; introduction; revelation of deaths); Dargeaux (flashback; cameo; introduction); Modeus (flashback; cameo; introduction); Modeus robots (introduction) |
| Synopsis | Kaidan reflects on her abilities and an early meeting with The Plutonian as she arrives in Sky City to meet his former girlfriend, Alana Patel. Patel's memories focus on the one adversary who scared The Plutonian, Modeus, and Plutonian's double life as Dan Hartigan, an identity he apparently discarded after revealing it to Patel the last time she saw him. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Mark Waid |
| Pencils | Peter Krause |
| Inks | Peter Krause |
| Colors | Andrew Dalhouse |
| Letters | Ed Dukeshire |
| Notes | The Paradigm is named in this issue. // Story is untitled beyond series title. First line: "My name is Kaidan, as was my mother's, and her mother's before her." |
| Reprinted | in Irredeemable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 |
| Pencils | Paul Azaceta; Kristian Donaldson |
| Inks | Paul Azaceta; Kristian Donaldson |
| Notes | Unthinkable #1 and its 7-page preview in this issue are hyped with Covers A and B. |
| Genre | Adventure; Conspiracy |
| Script | Mark Sable |
| Pencils | Julian Totino Tedesco |
| Inks | Julian Totino Tedesco |
| Colors | Juan Manuel Tumburus |
| Letters | Ed Dukeshire |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
| Notes | Seven pages of the story from Unthinkable #1 are excerpted. |
| Reprinted | from Unthinkable (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #1 [as preview] |
| Script | Matt Gagnon; ? (Q&A); Julian Totino Tedesco |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Colors | various |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Gagnon writes about Mark Sable and Unthinkable in "Tick... Tick... Tick..." column. Page also includes Boom! masthead, brief Q&A with Unthinkable artist Totino, and small repros of covers to upcoming releases. |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Colors | ? (photo) |
| Notes | Advanced Research Technologies' JETT is advertised on the last interior page. |
| Pencils | Paul Pope; Erik Jones |
| Inks | Paul Pope; Erik Jones |
| Colors | Cris Peter; Erik Jones |
| Notes | The inside back cover hypes The Unknown #1 with solicitation copy and cover art. |
| Notes | Microsoft Game Studios' videogame Halo Wars for XBox is advertised on the back cover. |