SPAWN #187

PREVIOUSLY IN SPAWN
Using the last vestige of his power, Al Simmons turns to his last resort – the one true way to kill a Hellspawn – blowing his own head off. This act sends ripples across Heaven and Hell, alerting both sides that something has slipped out of balance. Furthemore, Simmons’ act seems to have created an “anomaly” where he lay – a patch of earth where neither Heaven nor Hell holds power.

Simmons’ longtime tormentor, the Clown, stumbles upon the body. He ponders how he can use Simmons’ death to his advantage. Similarly, an angel, as Heaven’s agent on earth, also discovers the body.

At the exact moment of Simmons’ death, a young man wakes up in a New York hospital after years in a coma. Dubbed Patient 47, the young man is told his name is Jim Downing, but has no memory of his previous life. While disturbing visions haunt Jim, the attending doctors marvel at his awakening and the supernatural pace at which is body is recovering.

The doctors are not the only ones to take an interest in Jim’s recovery: A young nurse, Sara, confesses that she has preyed over Jim nightly, hoping God would send her a sign by healing him… A trio of detectives wonders why a prominent attorney inexplicably took his own life… And a mysterious intermediary makes arrangements for a super-powered thug to bust into the hospital and abduct the mysterious Patient 47…