Cecil Stedman

Cecil Stedman is a fictional character, a United States government operative in the Image Comics Universe. He is the head of the Global Defense Agency and is in charge of the Guardians of the Globe.

Fictional character biography

He first appeared in Brit: Cold Death. Cecil is head of the Global Defense Agency, a secret U.S. government agency charged with protecting the world from planetary level threats. His most distinguishing characteristic is scarring on the lower right side of his face.

In Invincible #9, Cecil reestablished the Guardians of the Globe under the leadership of Robot.

In Invincible #13, he offered Mark a job with the G.D.A.; the same position his father Omni-Man once held.

In Invincible #36, Cecil arrested D.A. Sinclair for the crimes he committed while creating his "Reanimen" only to offer him a job with the G.D.A. to create more "Reanimen".

His secret history is revealed in Invincible #50, after the falling out between him and Mark Grayson.

As a young agent, Cecil was held captive by a brother-sister team of supervillains called The Order of the Freeing Fist, who were intent on sparking a revolution by using a highly corrosive gas called chemical X to destroy an entire city. The superhero Brit was sent in to stop them and rescue Cecil, but was too late to prevent the siblings from setting off the canisters of chemical X, which Cecil was tied to. In the ensuing fight, Cecil is horribly burned and loses most of his skin. A few weeks later, Brit visits a fully recovered Cecil in a hospital and Cecil tells Brit that now most of his skin is in fact artificial, and the scarring on his face was the only part of his skin that was salvageable. Cecil chose to keep it as a reminder that failure of his job got people killed.