1.)

(Rendered to resemble a weathered comic strip of yesteryear, this panel bears the title "Vitus Investigates," and the image of detective Vitus with a smoking gun.)

2.)

(Monstrous Irene O'Dare stands alone on a rooftop, shaking a fist at the sky.)

INTERTITLE: "On the Roof of 'The Place 2B,' one moment Irene O'Dare battled Vitus Whitestone. The next..."

IRENE: "Where did you go? Ya god damned coward!"

3.)

(Vitus sits alone in an alley, looking at a "Minchin Lives" poster.)

VITUS: (in thought balloon) "Executed..."

4.)

(Vitus contemplates.)

5.)

(The poster leers at him.)

6.)

(Is it a imagination or history? A vision of mortal Clyde Minchin on the electric
     chair. His hair is being buzzed off in preparation for his execution.)

VOICE FROM OFF PANEL: "Any last words, scumbag?"

MINCHIN: "I guess the joke is on me."

7.)

(Fully shaved Minchin's eyes roll up in his head as the chair does its terrible work.)

8.)

(In the foreground, a dark reflection of Minchin's image from the last panel, a monster - the Crowboy progenitor -
with marks on its head consistent with burns from the electric chair. In the background, a memory from Vitus' past -
he lays injured with the ghoulish being floating above. His eyes are wide open.)

VITUS: (in thought balloon) "I remember..."