HOMEBRINGER
HOMEBRINGER
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Alternate
Reality (Earth-93060/"Ultraverse")
extraterrestrial
(Godwheel) collective (union of multiple races; "Prime
race") member
Occupation: Transporter, warrior, messenger
Group Membership: "Prime race"/collective (Primogenitor, others unidentified)
Affiliations: Doc Gross (Dr.
Vincent Gross), Duey;
formerly Primogenitor
Enemies: Culebra,
Dragonfly,
Elven, Gunk, Phade, Prime (Kevin Green), Turbocharge
(Michael Hardaway), Wicca (Steffi);
formerly Doc
Gross, Duey
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Godwheel, Earth universe, Reality-93060
First Appearance: (Behind-the-scenes; unidentified)
Power of Prime#1 (July, 1995);
(seen and identified) Prime
I#26 (August, 1995);
Powers/Abilities: The Homebringer can generate a
massive and powerful form, which surrounds,
protects, and provided life support his true form (which has not been
shown).
This form is superhumanly strong
(presumably lifting well over100 tons) and durable, much stronger than
Prime and able to laugh off Prime's punches.
This form was initially susceptible to
a being who could alter his or her density to pass through its outer
coating and then increase in density within his form, which caused at
least half of his body to rupture and explode, depending on the location
of the assault. After falling victim to this once, however, he was able
to resist such an assault and trap such an assailant within his form on
a second attempt.
Homebringer can open warp portals across space to transport beings from distant planets to and from the Godwheel, even pulling them in when they were unwilling.
Homebringer did not appear to
suffer from rapid degeneration of his primal form as the others of the
"Prime race"/collective did.
(Power of Prime#2 (fb) - BTS) <According to the legends
of the Prime race> - In the beginning,
the gods created "this world" and
brought races from many planets to reside there and worship them.
(Power of Prime#2 (fb)) - After
the gods warred and then vanished, the various different beings took up
residence in a valley that had been spared the destruction. Though at
first they could not communicate with one another and found each other's
visages repulsive, they put aside their differences. Bound by their love
for their gods and seeking to convince their gods to return to them,
they eventually pooled their skills and resources; and their best
makers, of both magic and technology,produced a tool that would allow
them to remake themselves in their gods' image. Via this process, the
people covered themselves with powerful forms, all in the form of those
they had worshipped.
(Power of Prime#4 (fb) - BTS) -
Homebringer was one of the Primal Beings for generations.
(Power of Prime#2 (fb)) - They
lived like they believed their gods had lived, cultivating the arts and
aiding the less fortunate.
Every score of year, they needed to
rest and renew their godlike forms. They needed to briefly return to
what they were before, although these previous forms were now disgusting
to them.
However, approximately 15 years before
the main story, something happened to their renewal cycle, and it became
accelerated or protracted, and their bodies did not last as long: In
some cases, only minutes or seconds. Additionally, they lost many of
their number, and they believed that their genetic code had become
damaged, duplicated too many times until it was no longer whole.
(Power of Prime#3 (fb) - BTS) - Those whose Prime
bodies were too broken down to repair or regenerate were disposed of as
genetic failures. The others considered that this was best for them due to
their being weakened by illness. They felt there was no point in living
when their outer bodies had become corrupt and all that was left was one's
weak and disgusting inner body.
(Power of Prime#2 (fb) - BTS) - Realizing
the problem they had, the Prime race sent Homebringer (who apparently
was more resistant to this rapid degeneration process) to Earth to seek
help. Bringing with him genetic samples from his people's oldest records
-- samples they hoped were uncorrupted -- Homebringer sought out what
they believed to be Earth's most brilliant and daring geneticist, Dr.
Vincent Gross.
(Power of Prime#1 (fb) - BTS) - Gross had been working in
genetic manipulation for some time without success before receiving the
information from Homebringer. 
(Power of Prime#2 (fb) - BTS) - Gross
promised to cultivate a new code but said it would take years to
develop. Homebringer periodically returned to Earth to examine Gross'
progress.
Finally, Homebringer discovered that
Gross' work had come to fruition in Prime (Kevin Green).
(Power of Prime#1 (fb) - BTS / Power of Prime#2 (fb) - BTS / other sources) - Gross used these techniques on a number of women, leading to numerous children who developed the ability to generate a second, superhuman form around their bodies. These included Culebra, Dragonfly, Duey, Elven, Gunk, Prime, and Wicca.
(Power of Prime#1 - BTS) -
Homebringer opened a portal and transported Culebra to the Godwheel.
(Power of Prime#1 - BTS) -
Homebringer opened a portal and transported Wicca
to the Godwheel.
(Prime I#25 - BTS) - Homebringer opened a portal and transported Duey (and Doc Gross) to the Godwheel.
(Power of Prime#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Homebringer opened portals and transported Dragonfly and Gunk to the Godwheel.
(Power of Prime#3 (fb) - BTS) - Duey convinced the Homebringer that they should take what they needed from their captives rather than ask their permission.
(Prime I#26 - BTS) - Homebringer opened a portal to transport Prime to the Godwheel. Images of Culebra, Dragonfly, Duey, Gunk, and Wicca urged him to come join them, giving his essence back to his creators rather than wandering the world confused. However, Phade and Turbocharge were able to pull Prime back to Earth.
As Phade and Turbocharge did some
research and tracked down the location of other "Gross Babies" (children
of women manipulated by Doc Gross, apparently via the material given to
him by Homebringer), Prime sought out Elven and convinced her to join
him in investigating their origins.
After Prime and Elven met up with Phade
and Turbocharge, Elven called out a challenge to the Homebringer, who
opened a portal and pulled her in, after which Prime, Phade, and Turbo
followed her through the breach.
(Prime I#26) - Although the
Homebringer insisted that no came with him uninvited, Prime refused to
give up, and Homebringer -- unwilling to bring such chaos and power to
the "court" -- transported them to the "home-place" in the wilderness,
which included perhaps a foot or more of slime-like material on its
surface.
The immense Homebringer then confronted
them, challenging them to pit themselves against the perfect warrior. He
swiftly swatted away Turbocharge and then laughed while beating down
Prime and Elven, mocking them as cheap copies of him and "plastic to his
platinum." However, when Phade dematerialized, passed her fists inside
of Homebringer and then increased her density, the upper half of his
body shell exploded.
(Prime I#26 - BTS) - The
Primogenitor then appeared, noting that the Homebringer was just a
shell, as was that entire world, a shell over a core of corruptions. He
then told Prime that he desperately needed his help.
(Power of Prime#2 - BTS) - The
Primogenitor revealed his peoples' history and the hope that Prime could
help them re-stabilize, while Turbocharge discovered the fate of those
suffering permanent degeneration of their primal forms as well as the
presence of a number of imprisoned "Gross Babies," whom he
freed.Turbocharge subsequently warned his allies that Primogenitor was
not the benevolent god. 
(Power of Prime#3 - BTS) - As
Primogenitor prepared to accept the Gross Babies' terms -- Prime agreed to let the Primogenitor use his genetic code to
help his people and make him Prime forever on the condition that they
also sent home the Gross Babies and helped fix their powers however they
wanted them -- Duey interrupted, advising Primogenitor to refuse to let
the others dictate their terms but rather take the genetic material that
they needed.
Primogenitor countered that his people
aspired to be gods, not thieves, and when Duey continued his argument,
Primogenitor noted that the council must discuss this.
(Power of Prime#3) - Duey then revealed his alliance with the Homebringer, who then regenerated his giant form and exclaimed that the genetic material was their legacy and that he would not see it dispersed to "the world of these feeble imitations" (Earth).
As the Gross Babies assaulted
Homebringer, Primogenitor insisted that Homebringer must not be hurt and
that Prime stop his friends or all deals were off. Though not wanting to
lose his chance, Prime ultimately sided with his friends and joined the
fight against Homebringer.
Phade attempted to incapacitate
Homebringer in the same fashion that she had used against him before,
but having learned from that, Homebringer instead trapped her form
within his.
As Duey urged Primogenitor to aid
Homebringer against the other Gross Babies to avoid losing the genetic
code they sought, Primogenitor panicked and began to lose control of
both of his wits and his primal form. When Wicca blasted and stunned
Homebringer so that Prime could punch him of of his feet (with the aid
of Turbocharge having wrapped Gunk around his feet), the other Primal
beings made their decision, and they collectively attacked Prime and the
others. Prime convinced Primogenitor to call of his people so they could
continue their deal, but Duey then impaled Primogenitor and led the
other Primes to restrain Prime, at which point Duey drew out Doc Gross
from within him and then cut into Prime's body and pulled out his heart,
which was the source that generated his Prime bodies.
(Power of Prime#4) - Elven and Wicca
assaulted Duey and Homebringer, but the Homebringer grabbed Wicca,
mocking her as a foolish child and noting that he knew secrets of power
that she would not discover for years, and stripped off her outer form
and cast her to ground in her powerless human form.
Homebringer then exclaimed how no one understood the primal ways better than he did, which is why he would rule as the new god of this world. When Primogenitor argued that they worshipped the ones who had gone before, Homebringer mocked him as a fool, retorting that their bodies were power and that he should show everyone how to use that power to walk between worlds and conquer them. Countering that this was against everything they stood for, Primogenitor charged Homebringer, only to be punched back by Duey. As Homebringer subsequently beat down Primogenitor, Elven and Turbocharge attacked Duey. After Homebringer tore off Dragonfly's wings, Culebra attacked Homebringer anew.
(Power of Prime#4 - BTS) - As the primal beings considered that they would be left as
nothing creatures, revolting to each other, Turbocharge told them they
did not have to all have the same forms and should instead be true to
themselves.
(Power of Prime#4) - As
Wicca pulled Dragonfly from her degenerated shell, Culebra's attacks on
Homebringer allowed Phade to escape his form.
Meanwhile, Gunk sacrificed his prime
body's energy to restore Prime's form and power, and Prime attacked the
Homebringer.
Appreciating that he had caused this problem of fear of turning back into what they truly were, Primogenitor considered that Turbocharge had been right, and he led his people to combine their power to generate an immense manifestation of his primal form, and he grabbed Duey and the Homebringer and smashed them into each other after which he exhorted the others to bind them and to prevent them from using their powers as the immense Primogenitor body degenerated.
(Power of Prime#4 - BTS) - Resolving
to keep Doc Gross and Duey there, Primogenitor used his own power to
open a gate and send Phade, Turbocharge, and all of the other Gross
Babies back to Earth.
Comments: Created by Gerard Jones, Len Strazewski, John Statema, Mark Pacella, Bob Smith, and Chris Ivey.
There are a couple images where he seems to have some sort of ornamentation behind his head with what looks like possibly a pair of pony tails...but most images don't show these structures. If it some massive man-bun with ponytails, then he has long black hair.
This profile was completed 07/21/2022, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Homebringer race should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads)
Prime I#26, pg. 20, panel 5 (face as Phade enters his form)
pg. 21, panel 1 (Homebringer, upper body
explodes);
Power of Prime#3, pg. 10 (Homebringer full);
#4, pg. 6, panel 1 (full distant);
panel 5 (face);
pg. 18, panel 2 (collective Primogenitor
form subdues Homebringer and Duey)
Appearances:
Prime I#25 (July, 1995) - by Len Strazewski &
Gerard Jones (writers), John Statema (penciler), Bob Smith (inker), Hank
Kanalz (editor)
Prime I#26 (August, 1995) - Gerard
Jones & Len Strazewski (writers), John Statema (penciler), Bob Smith
(inker), Hank Kanalz (editor)
Power of Prime#1 (July, 1995) - Len Strazewski & Gerard Jones
(writers), Mark Pacella (penciler), Chris Ivey (inker), Hank Kanalz
(editor)
Power of Prime#2 (August, 1995) - Len Strazewski
& Gerard Jones (writers), Kevin West and Tim Hamilton (pencilers),
Bob Almond (inker), Scott Bernstein (assistant editor), Hank Kanalz
(editor)
Power of Prime#3-4 (August-September, 1995) - Len
Strazewski & Gerard Jones (writers), Mark Pacella (penciler), Chris
Ivey (inker), Scott Bernstein (assistant editor),
Hank Kanalz (editor)
First posted: 09/14/2026
Last updated: 10/12/2025
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