Bad Machinery #6

In the quiet town of Bad Machinery, Jo and her friends are searching for a mystery to fill their summer, until a shadowy figure known only as the Night Hero starts cleaning up the streets by night. With Linton’s dad promising to track down the vigilante and the news hailing him as a local hero, tensions rise when Colin moves in with Lottie and Sarah returns with Dr. Julian—both newly arrived from London. The summer heat and strange new arrivals only deepen the mystery, as the line between hero and stranger begins to blur.

In "null," Jo finds herself tangled in a mystery when her mother’s boyfriend starts disappearing at night—only to return with strange stories of sewer emergencies. As Lottie pieces together clues, she grows suspicious that the Night Hero isn’t a hero at all, but something far darker. With Jack pursuing leads through his newspaper internship and Erin Winter stepping in when danger strikes, the truth begins to surface in ways no one expected.

In "null," John Allison crafts a quietly surreal chapter of Bad Machinery where Lottie stumbles upon a hidden closet of forgotten crime-fighting gear in Dr. Julian’s kitchen, sparking a chain of revelations. Erin uncovers that her colleague Mike is the Night Creeper—a figure who drains hope from others—only to find that even the ghost of Todd Baxter, already beyond despair, can unravel the villain’s power. As the truth about Colin and Julian’s secret partnership as the Night Hero comes to light, the fallout leaves their friends grappling with what comes next.