Thriller #2/1989

In the frozen shadows of wartime Europe, the race to stop a stolen atomic bomb intensifies as Lord Death Mayhew prepares to launch it from a bomber over New York. With Natalie Reed in Moscow secretly constructing new warplanes for the Blackhawks, the team must escape a devastating German bombing raid and take flight—barely clearing the wreckage as they head toward Warsaw, where the next chapter of their mission begins.

In the shadowed streets of Hub City, The Question is pulled from drowning by Lady Shiva, who sees in him a blade yet to be forged. With Batman offering a rare moment of counsel, she sends him to train under Richard Dragon, sharpening his mind and body for a path of vengeance and discipline. When the training ends, Shiva returns to test him—then he turns his focus toward pastor Jeremiah Hatch, stepping back into the web of secrets he once sought to unravel.

In "Kapitel tre: Vittnen," Evey Hammond recounts the dark history of a Britain consumed by war and authoritarian rule, as the fascist regime tightens its grip. When the kidnapped Lewis Prothero awakens, disoriented and believing himself still at the Larkhills detention camp, the fragile line between memory and reality begins to blur.

In "Kapitel 4: Vaudeville," V confronts Lewis Prothero in a stark, theatrical setting, using the grim history of the Larkhills concentration camp to dismantle Prothero’s authority. As the weight of the past unfolds, V reveals a personal connection to the camp’s horrors—his time as a prisoner in Room V on the medical wing—leaving Prothero shattered and stripped of his power to spread the regime’s propaganda.