Warehouse 13: The Comic Book Artifacts

Category: Warehouse 13
Last article published: 13 August 2023
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In the same style as each season's favorite W13 artifacts, but for the comics series...

Most Want
Roman Repulsor Coins (issue 3)
You run current through those things and you're Iron Man, well sort of. On boots, you can walk on walls. In your palms, you can throw a ninja assassin clear across the room. Practical, portable and flexible. Take your coin-collecting to a whole new level!

Coolest But Way Too Dangerous
Ned Lowe's Censer (issue 2)
Responsible for all the ghost ships you've heard about, the censer is swing into action and creates a black smoke that absorbs people (including yourself, but you can get out, but I'd fear dropping the ball on that one and getting stuck). Cool backstory, neat effects, real horror vibes. You can play at John Carpenter and recreate The Fog. But it only works at night, don't get it into the light.

Cleverest/Craziest
P.T. Barnum's Hat (issue 4)
The agents had such a terrible time retrieving this one that they don't want to discuss it more than what we see here. Does it turn clowns into killers, or does it summon killer clowns out of thin felt? i don't know, but it's the kind of crazy stuff only comics can comfortably give us.

It's a Curse - Keep It Away From Me
Qin Shi Huang's Mallet (issue 1)
On the surface, you're like Chinese Thor, slamming this thing down and bringing up riches from the ground. You could make a fortune and look cool doing it. Unfortunately, it creates geological instability that causes random earthquakes and kills thousands of people. And nothing's worth that.

Throwaway Most Worthy of Its Own Episode

King Kamahemahea's Tiki Idol (issue 4-5)
It creates spontaneous luaus? We have the start of a musical episode! Unfortunately, it's used as a gag, but imagine if Myka and Pete had to retrieve it "in the wild", and how fun that episode would be.

It's harder to populate all those categories with a 5-issue mini-series (as opposed to a television season), but I left a lot of objects on the cutting room floor, so not THAT hard. I do think the comics could have gone much wilder...

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