There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel Beckett's seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil, but he's never seen an angel and he's never spoken to God. He is God's warrior at war with God.
There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel Beckett's seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil, but he's never seen an angel and he's never spoken to God. He is God's warrior at war with God.
There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel Beckett's seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil, but he's never seen an angel and he's never spoken to God. He is God's warrior at war with God.
Duran’s world implodes as he struggles to come to terms with the events in issue 3. Additionally, his already shaky partnership with Beckett takes a turn for the worse.
Heaven and Hell are closer than one might think as this arc draws to a close and Beckett and Duran come to terms with the changing world and new truths are revealed.
King Leo enters the Barrens on a quest to save the destroyed soul of Father Leone after he was thrown from the bell tower of his church and his soul was ripped asunder by the demon they had battled throughout the first arc. While blind in our world, King Leo’s gift of second sight guides him through an unimaginable world that is neither heaven nor hell in his journey to save his friend.
King Leo fights the forces of the underworld in the Barrens to rescue the soul of Father Leone and start their escape back into the world of the living. Beckett and Duran are on the road to finding their true calling. And more trouble waiting…
A peaceful small town is ripped asunder as its children go missing and many are found wandering disoriented or dead. Someone – or something – is hunting them down one by one. Coming to a place where trust in anyone is non-existent and faith in a solution is fading fast, Beckett and Duran must team up with one victim’s brother to track down the monster hunting the children.
Beckett and Duran utilize Duran’s gift of discernment to track down the person (or persons) responsible for Arlington’s missing children. Another victim puts the city on lockdown, with curfew in full effect as Arlington’s police patrol the town streets twenty-four hours a day. Meanwhile, a new player has entered the field, looking for her prize: the true innocent.
Becket and Duran have cornered the “Monster in the Woods” only to discover everything they thought they knew about him was wrong and they must readjust their tactics to stop this child killer permanently. Elsewhere: King Leo finally makes it back to our reality with the soul of Father Leone in tow–though perhaps in an altered state from when he left this mortal coil.
Like the layers of an onion left to rot, the mystery of Arlington’s lost children has peeled away its layers to reveal a bigger threat at its core. An ancient demon has been at work for decades only to be revealed when Beckett and Duran arrived in town. What was hinted at in Los Angeles is coming to fruition in this small midwestern town.
The penultimate issue of Asylum’s “Welcome to Arlington” arc. King Leo has returned from ‘The Barrens’ with a powerful ally in tow. But why does the future of humanity lie within the hands of a single boy? It won’t matter so long as Beckett and Duran stay locked in battle with their own tortured souls. Skrim pulls out all the stops to see Lilith’s plan unfold…
Streets flow with rivers of fire and skies are filled with demons. In this, the last issue in the second arc of John Carpenter’s Asylum, God is dead. The Anti-Christ is near, and Beckett, the fallen angel, is humanity’s last hope.
There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel Beckett's seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil, but he's never seen an angel and he's never spoken to God. He is God's warrior at war with God.
Beckett and Duran are drawn to a small town in the midwest where children have been kidnapped and murdered for decades in a pattern suggesting that a bigger evil might be at work. Father Leone, King Leo and The Soul Collector all become parts of a bigger plan as Beckett finds his true self and Duran is forced to take a stand as mankind’s fate intertwines with that of one small child.