Publication History
The Bleed is an interdimensional realm that first appeared in the Wildstorm book Stormwatch (vol. 2) #7 (May 1998), which was written by Warren Ellis, and illustrated by Bryan Hitch. The Bleed was depicted as a realm through which characters such as the Authority could travel between any two distant points much faster than in normal space.
After DC Comics acquired Wildstorm in 1998, the Bleed was explained as the space between the fictional DC Universe and Wildstorm Universe, across which characters could travel, which first occurred when the Wildstorm character Mr. Majestic was transported to the DC Universe in his self-titled 1999 miniseries, with which the integration of the Wildstorm Universe as one of many among the DC Multiverse was established.
There were several minor crossovers until Captain Atom: Armageddon, in which Captain Atom nearly inadvertently destroyed the Wildstorm Universe. Void saved him but decided the Wildstorm Universe was not worth saving in its current form, triggering the "soft reset" of every series, known as "WorldStorm". In Ion #10, the Bleed appears for the first time in a mainstream DC book.
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