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Mantra was the name of the lead character, an was betrayed and captured, leading to the permanent death of most of the warriors and a final reincarnation for one, Lukasz himself: to his shock, Lukasz was put into the body of a woman, Eden Blake'''. In addition to being forced to deal with life as a woman, Lukasz was also faced with the particular challenges of Eden's life — in particular, her two children and her ex-husband. For the first time, Lukasz confronted the fact that for 1500 years he had been destroying families by stealing men's bodies and forcing them to walk away from their lives. He fell in love with her soul, which still existed within him. He also discovered that Eden had vast latent powers, including a mystical armor activated by a specific invocation including the word 'mantra', leading to the media dubbing her as such. Follwing the Black September event, the Marvel-led Malibu began publication of a second volume with a new Mantra, removing the magic from Eden/Lukasz and casting it onto a minor character from the first series named Lauren Sherwood, a young blonde woman Marvel hoped would be more enticing to readers. The series lasted only 7 issues, after a backlash from the original series' fans let to a general exodus of its readership. Before the second volume of the series was released rumours and speculation surrounded much of the Ultraverse and how it would interact, if at all, with the Marvel Universe . A piece of promotional art was released showing the Eden Blake Mantra in a group shot with the Fantastic Four , merging the universes much like the latter Amalgam Comics did with Marvel and DC Comics a few years later. In this Four, member Ben Grimm wasn't stuck in the orange rock body of The Thing , but instead as Mantra. Though the rendition of Mantra in the art was much less feminine and more butch and muscular, though in the pages of the Avengers / Ultraforce Crossover she was rendered in the usual familiar feminine manner. |
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