Witchblade #1/1999

In "null," police officer Sara Pezzini and her partner Michael Yee race to stop a dangerous scheme at the Rialto, where businessman Kenneth Irons and his enforcer Nottingham are auctioning off a mystical gauntlet—the Witchblade. When Michael is captured and shot, Sara rushes in to save him, only to be wounded herself. In a desperate moment, she reaches for any weapon, and the Witchblade fuses to her hand, unleashing a power beyond anything she could have imagined.

In "null," a young woman is brutally killed by a mysterious force that cooks her from the inside out, leaving Sara — the sole survivor of the attack — hospitalized and haunted by grief. As Jake and Joe confront her with questions about the deadly tournament that claimed her partner Michael Yee, the shadows deepen with a Triad assassin sent to kill Kenneth Irons, only to be intercepted by Nottingham. When Irons subjects Nottingham to a brutal ritual to withstand the Witchblade’s power, Sara, determined to reclaim the weapon, attempts to use it to bring Michael back — but the effort ends in failure.

In the far future, bounty hunter Tommi-X9 is dispatched to retrieve the daughter of a warlord—only to discover she’s shielded by the enigmatic and formidable Witchblade.