An individual the Dark Man wants saved may be working for either, depending on anyone's point of view.

Issue two: Jonathan and Mystery help a housewife named Mary who is lost in daydreams: she is a princess and her abusive husband is a dragon.

She confronts her husband but chooses not to kill him, but manages in the sparing of his life, to save herself by losing her fear of him.

Issue three: Jonathan encounters a homeless artist whose boyfriend, Lee died of a drug overdose.

Issue four to five: Jonathan meets with the Dark Man who says a Mob hitman named Quint is his.