Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #14

In the quiet halls of Miss Vitriola’s school, Saree finds herself caught between two worlds—her father’s sudden announcement of a new marriage to P’Gell, and the sudden passing of the strict but beloved Miss Vitriola. With P’Gell poised to take her place, Saree, who sees herself as the only one truly equal to her new potential stepmother, braces for a change she’s not ready to accept.

In "School for Girls," Lady McBeth finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of suspicion when her husband's life is threatened and she fears she’s being framed. With Inchly 3rd and Picar caught in the web of secrets from her past, the Spirit must untangle a mystery where every ally could be a foe.

In "The Partner," two unlikely allies, Joe Daws and Joshua Skinch, navigate a dangerous game of mutual distrust, where every favor could be a trap and every alliance a setup. With Debit P. Quarters watching from the shadows, the real question isn't who’ll survive—but who’s really playing the long game.

In "Mad Moes," the Lizard finds his uncharted river property suddenly threatened by a government dam project, leaving him unwilling to sell—especially when Stud Sharpe sees a golden opportunity to turn the land into a gambling den. With the mysterious Mad Moes stirring beneath the surface and Queeny caught in the middle, tensions rise as old loyalties and new ambitions collide.

Dr. Ward Wilmore makes a startling claim to August Lateur: he’s from the future, and he needs Lateur’s theory on molecular arrangement—something that could change everything. With Silken Floss watching closely, Wilmore’s urgency grows as he tries to convince Lateur of a truth that defies time itself.

In "Hoagy the Yogi Part One," a young man named Ebony vanishes after believing the Spirit is married, leading him to join a mysterious figure known as Hoagy the Yogi. With the help of Lieut. Grey and a cunning con artist named Fabulous Frank, the Spirit teams up with a sharp-eyed black police detective to follow Ebony’s trail—uncovering a web of deception that stretches from the streets of Central City to the shadowy world of a self-proclaimed fakir.

In a story from Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #14, Sylvie Vault walks free after being cleared of her husband’s murder, but the Spirit senses her fate is still entangled in shadows. Meanwhile, Pinhead—a man with the soul of a poet and the face of a monster—moves through the city’s underbelly, his presence a quiet storm.

Ebony tracks down a missing jazz pianist for a high-stakes international broadcast, only to find her lead musician, Teebo, has vanished—voluntarily. Now caught between duty and a surprising new life on the scene, Teebo’s reluctant to return, even as Tailgate Smear and Cussed Cal scramble to make sense of the mix.

In "The Fortune," Horace Eden sets out to eliminate his cousin Miss Eden for her inheritance, but her terror spirals into a twisted delusion—she believes the Spirit is her long-lost cousin and spends seven pages trying to kill him, while he struggles to protect her from the very danger she’s convinced is him. The story unfolds with a chilling mix of paranoia and mistaken identity, where the line between hunter and hunted blurs in ways that defy logic.

In "Hangly Hollyer Mansion," Sarah recounts her decades-long obsession with the Hollyer family’s inheritance, where her fate hinges on which of the brothers—Hangly or Hubert—finally chooses her. As she reveals her increasingly desperate attempts to eliminate Hubert, the line between devotion and obsession blurs in the shadow of the family’s decaying estate.