Building on the success of First Born and Broken Trinity, Top Cow finally reveals the secrets of all 13 Artifacts, which include The Darkness, Witchblade, Angelus, Magdalena's Spear of Destiny, and many more. Launching a massive 13 issue event series in July 2010, this series will literally define and redefine the nature of the Top Cow Universe. The final identity of the remaining hidden Artifacts will be revealed, characters will perish, and the very existence of the Top Cow Universe will be at stake. And it begins here!
Building on the success of First Born and Broken Trinity, Top Cow finally reveals the secrets of all 13 Artifacts, which include The Darkness, Witchblade, Angelus, Magdalena's Spear of Destiny, and many more. Launching a massive 13 issue event series in July 2010, this series will literally define and redefine the nature of the Top Cow Universe. The final identity of the remaining hidden Artifacts will be revealed, characters will perish, and the very existence of the Top Cow Universe will be at stake. And it begins here!
Discover the series that has everyone buzzing with this introductory priced trade paperback collection released to coincide with the beginning of the second chapter of the yearlong event! Separately, thirteen mystical Artifacts will guide the fate of the Universe. Together, thirteen Artifacts will end the Universe. When a mysterious antagonist kidnaps, Hope, the daughter of Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado, Armageddon is put into motion.
Separately, thirteen mystical Artifacts guide the fate of the Universe. Together, thirteen Artifacts will end the Universe. Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado's daughter Hope has been taken. The Artifact bearers aligned with the mysterious antagonist are united with a common purpose. Those aligned with Pezzini and Estacado are fractured and lost. And the ruthless assassin Aphrodite IV is manipulating Cyberforce to make sure they stay that way.
THE EPIC CONCLUSION! Over a year in the making, the final act of Top Cow's landmark ARTIFACTS is finally collected. The mysterious Survivor has been revealed and his plan exposed, but with the Artifact bearers evenly split is it possible for anyone to truly triumph? And what role will the deadly Thirteenth Bearer play in the final battle?
Former priest and current FBI profiler, Tom Judge, can't shake the feeling that something is horribly and inherently wrong with the world. He blames it on past trauma, but a new investigation of gangland violence linked to mobster Jackie Estacado will reveal he may very well be right… and setting things right may destroy everything.
Tom Judge was once a priest, responsible for lost souls. Now he is the bearer of the ancient, powerful Artifact called the Rapture, and responsible for the survival of the entire universe. Tom's only hope of preserving all creation is to gather the other Artifact bearers, and make a stand against the Darkness. It's a battle could cost Tom his own soul.