Issue #2: The Watcher vs. The Exorcist

Solidream and the Watcher track down Daina, one of the adults behind the Shanty House connected to Jericho Jackson; DeLight tells the heroes about Armand, his his arch-nemesis, an expert in the lore of spirit-binding and alchemy; Black Bill is tipped off by a young gangster about a meeting place of the Brotherhood; withe the Watcher they enter the warehouse only to find out it was a trap set by the Brotherhood, who hired an Exorcist from out of town to get rid of the 'ghost'; the Watcher is locked in a circle of runes and separated from Black Bill who gets beaten severely by a crowd of Brotherhood cops; the Exorcist attacks the Watcher with a sledgehammer charmed especially against astral beings; somehow the Watcher manages to ring Solidream who alerts the rest; he uses a Brotherhood cop as a puppet to fight back the Exorcist; the others arrive and confront the corrupt cops, Hughes eventually encasing them in a dome of ice; they leave the cops with other cops and later find out they were released and have gone underground; the Shanty House stands empty during the day; in the evening Melody Paine rushes in saying that Jericho Jackson is about to sacrifice the most couragous kid in the test to the Spirits!; the team arrives at the Shanty House, now protected by an impenetrable bubble erected by Jericho's powers; Hughes manages to punch through with his magic and they battle the cultists and stop the ritual; Jericho explodes in a blue light and the Shanty House is disbanded; Erica, the missing girl from issue #1, has been sent to another CoT facility, called 'the Factory'; they reaveal that Jericho wanted to kill the boy, allowing a primal spirit to enter his body and that there are many who's soul has been replaced; Rebecca Casey, VB Observer reporter, arrives to cover the story; Solidream changes into a cop and tells the camera about the Brotherhood, but it is unclear whether he can alter the film in the camera or that his power is only an illusion...