shapeshifting abilities. Subsequently, Rom banishes all the defeated Wraiths into Limbo. The Wraith Queen, Volx, later made appearances in issues of New Warriors (vol. 1) and Nova (vol. 2). It was later confirmed that this is the same Wraith queen introduced in Rom (vol. 1) #48. Return of the Wraiths A salvaged Dire Wraith ship is used as a Moscow headquarters for the Russian superheroes of the Winter Guard. Fantasma was revealed to have been a Dire Wraith Queen in Darkstar & the Winter Guard #2. In the 2011 Annihilators miniseries, a team of Skrulls try to bring back Wraithworld and its population, intending to empower them and use them as a weapon to reform the Skrull Empire. The Wraith's Queen Volx and the Galadorians both are manipulated into setting this up, and the Annihilators find that Wraithworld has to be brought back to reality to balance out the unleashed Dark Sun. The Silver Surfer discovers that Volx has actually been driven insane by an empathic link to Wraithworld in Limbo. When the Annihilators arrive there, the team is horrified to find out that after generations in Limbo, the surviving Dire Wraiths are a disease-ridden, half-starved people in constant anguish and most of them are suicidal. The Dire Wraiths later appear as a member of the Universal Inhumans alongside the Badoon, Centaurians, and the Kymellians. Standalone comic series The Dire Wraiths received their own comic book series, which has received mixed reviews. While the characterization of the comic was praised, its cartoonish art style was heavily criticized. Dire Wraith characters The following lists some of the more notable Dire Wraith characters: Avoe – queen of the Dire Wraiths and member of the Universal Inhumans. Doctor Dredd – rare male Dire Wraith warlock. Hooud – a size-shifting Dire Wraith who is a member of the Universal Inhumans' Light Brigade. He operates under the alias of Creeping Death. Hybrid / Jimmy Marks – first hybrid offspring of a human and Dire Wraith. Kattan-Tu – Dire Wraith orphan who was raised by the Sarkans, a childless human couple, that named him Jimmy . Voorr – a Dire Wraith who is a member of the Universal Inhumans' Light Brigade. He operates under the alias of Sun'''. Voorr can fly and project force fields. Reception The Dire Wraith's have been criticized as being "evil for evil's sake" and as having a thin motivation for their