The Heart of Darkness

• Writer - Terry Kavanagh
• Penciler - Mike Miller
• Inker - Bud LaRosa
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Jason Levine
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Threnody sits upon a throne of worshipful corpses, who pile on top of her, as she calls out for Nate. He wakes, orients himself, then pulls them off and flying away with her, out from under the piers of Seattle.

  Nate promises never to leave her again; she tells him it wasn't her decision to leave, but Maddie killed her (iss. 25). But then she absorbed all the death energies in the morgue, which are just as powerful as life energies. The dead are now addicted to her; she is addicted to death and is willing to kill (iss. 24).

  The dead crash in on them; Nate escapes with her to a boat in the harbor. She tells him she has been feeding off his strong death energies, and she needs to break her addiction. She sends him away, then goes to care for her baby.

  A mysterious creature observes.