J. Craigles

Cyon

Issue #4 - "Pyrotechnics & Pulse Monitors"

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Issue 4 “Pyrotechnics and Pulse Monitors”- Following Cyon’s psychic impressions, he and Jared locate a hidden basement drug operation where Darren is being held inside a locked refrigeration unit and psychically consumed by the effects of the drug. As Cyon probes the minds of the dealers, he experiences their inner world as a nightmare of craving, despair, and false euphoria, and for the first time begins to suspect the presence inside him may not be wholly opposed to saving someone. Jared breaks them into the lab, they recover Darren, and a confrontation erupts with the dealers—whose true forms burn through their human disguises in the resulting fire and explosion. The issue ends with Darren rescued but gravely compromised, and with Cyon and Jared forced to reckon with the fact that the people behind the drug operation are something more than ordinary criminals.

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Issue #3 - "Search & Sublimation"

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Issue 3 “Search & Sublimation” - In the present day, Jared begins searching for a missing young man named Darren, using old police connections and street contacts to investigate a new drug circulating through gay nightlife. Through conversations with Anne, with dealer-turned-witness Allen, and later with bartender Jack, Jared pieces together a pattern of disappearances tied to a mysterious couple and a glowing substance that causes violent hallucinations, self-harm, and a euphoric psychic pull. At the same time, Cyon experiences flashes of Darren’s suffering and begins understanding that his own abilities may be the key to finding him. By the end of the issue, Jared and Cyon are fully pulled into the same case, united by Darren’s disappearance and the unnerving possibility that something supernatural is hiding behind the drug ring.

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Issue #2 - "Confessions & Conversion"

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Issue 2 “Confessions & Conversion” - A flashback to Cyon’s adolescence in small-town South Carolina reveals the origin of both his trauma and his powers. After confiding something about himself that his religious family cannot accept, teenage Cyon is sent to the conversion facility Hope for Holiness, where he meets another boy, Todd, who becomes his first real ally. Beneath the institution’s sanctimonious language and ritualized abuse lurks Dr. Sarah, whose influence proves far more sinister than human cruelty alone. As Cyon’s empathic perceptions deepen, he begins sensing a monstrous presence hidden behind her. Todd’s defiance against the program is crushed, and when Cyon is finally taken below the facility into its ritual chamber, he comes face to face with the being that will shape the rest of his life.

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Issue #1 - “Flirtation & Folly”

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Issue 1 “Flirtation & Folly” - On a crowded night in a Manhattan gay bar, empathic newcomer Cyon crosses paths with Jared, a charismatic former detective turned community advocate. Their flirtation quickly turns into a late-night connection, but the evening takes a darker turn when a mysterious pair of strangers begin distributing a strange shimmering drug that exerts an unsettling psychic pull on Cyon. Just as he nearly succumbs to the substance’s influence, a message from Jared breaks the trance. Unbeknownst to Cyon, another young man accepts the drug instead. What begins as a simple night of attraction and possibility quietly seeds a much more sinister chain of events unfolding beneath the surface of the city.