"It scared the shit out of me"...
"All in all, Purgation is one of the best first issues I've ever read"

--Alan Grant

The first issue opens with a body on the floor. Its organs have been arranged into patterns and blood stained symbols encircle the body. A bald man prays an unholy prayer while an innocent 9 year-old girl is forced to watch. The wall dissolves into a cavern of light, and a figure emerges...the Confessor... the bald man begins to scream as his soul is ripped from his flesh...

FBI agents are called to the scene of the crime and debate whether the body of the dead bald man puts an end to their serial killing investigation. Perhaps a cult is involved. They try to speak to the little girl who witnessed this grisly crime, but she is catatonic. Agent Hayes decides to stay in the area to try to get something from the girl.

A reknown psychiatrist, Dr. Alex Trachtmann is contacted to aide in the little girl's recovery. The child's art therapy has revealed disturbing images that Dr. Trachtmann recognizes. The Confessor. He saw the Confessor once - the day he died.

The young man's name is Donovan Gery. He awoke to find himself shaved and taped to a tree. The gentleman who picked him up hitch-hiking the night before had drugged him and prepared him for a ritual slaying... just like the others...

The FBI agents argue about the resolution of the case. Unaware of Donovan's predicament, Agent Hayes is convinced that more than one killer committed these ritual slayings, but more had to be understood.

The girl is the key. He waits patiently for her to emerge from her fear.

Donovan Gery is told that his place is arranged in the hereafter. His would-be murderer explains that the world is coming to an end, and that he would be prepared for its changes.

Blinded, Donovan succumbs to either insanity or divinity...

Find out exactly what happens.

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