High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Loners (originally named Excelsior) is a spin-off mini-series of comic books from Marvel Comics, first appearing in the pages of Runaways. It consists of a Los Angeles-based support group for former teenage superheroes from New York, founded by Turbo of the New Warriors, and Phil Urich, the heroic former Green Goblin. Their goals are initially stated to be to help fellow teenage superheroes to adjust to normal lives while coping with their powers, and to dissuade other superpowered teenagers from becoming heroes, but these goals are discarded in their own miniseries in favor of the group apparently wanting to avoid using their powers for any reason, even if that means abandoning helpless victims of crime to their fate. As with other continuity errors and discrepancies thrown up during the course of the Loners miniseries, no explanation is given as to the drastic change in the group`s purpose between series — though miniseries writer C. B. Cebulski (the third writer to tackle the team - after Brian K. Vaughan/Robert Kirkman - and the only one to use this direction for the team) has attempted to suggest some answers directly to fans who frequent the Newsarama forums rather than within the pages of the book itself, though many suggestions (notably those centering on Darkhawk) were later debunked by events in canon titles such as Nova and War of Kings: Ascension. Although all the characters were created by different authors and artists, the team itself was created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, with other characters (Spider-Woman, Hollow, Red Ronin) added to the cast during the events of the 2007 miniseries.