Challengers of the Unknown #13
In "The Keening," writer Steven Grant and artist Jill Thompson deliver a haunting tale set in Seattle, where a desperate Irishman takes hostages in a church, pursued by a banshee bound to him by a dying curse. With Marlon inside and the supernatural threat at the door, tensions rise as a pregnant woman goes into labor and a fragile truce forms—offering a life for a death, but not the one anyone expects. The cover by John Paul Leon and Shawn Martinbrough captures the eerie intensity of a story where fear and sacrifice collide.
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In Seattle, an Irish renegade runs into a church and seizes hostages. A banshee has pursued him from Ireland after a girlfriend he shot laid a dying curse on him. Police surround the church, but Marlon sneaks in and invites the banshee in. His fiancée, Jessie, is among the hostages, as is a pregnant woman. The pregnant woman goes into labor as the hostages flee and Marlon negotiates. The banshee has no power here, and it agrees, "a life for a death." The Irishman wants to die, but Marlon tackles him. Jessie is grateful but can't live in constant fear, so she kisses Marlon goodbye.
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