Written by Brian Witten and Eric Stephenson
Drawn by Calvin Irving
Published by Image Comics

This issue picks up right in the immediate aftermath of the previous issue. The man behind the attack on Chapel and Jeff runs off to some place where he meets with his associates, but Chapel follows him and kills most of them. He leaves one man alive to tell him where Jeff’s daughter is and then kills him, too.

Chapel arrives in some nameless small town nearby, which appears abandoned. Then he gets attacked by a bunch of men with guns, and as he guns them down he realizes that they’re not fully human, they’re “synthazoids.” He meets the town’s sole survivor, a young boy named Ian who tells Chapel that some “man with a golden eye” took everyone, including his parents. He leads Chapel to the building where that happened, and Chapel goes in to find Jeff’s daughter in some kind of machine as if she’s about to be turned into one of those synthazoids, and as he prepares to free her, he’s met by Giger.

Giger is an old enemy of Youngblood, a cybernetic terrorist who leads an organization called Cybernet. No matter how many times he’s been destroyed, he keeps coming back, so we’ll see what he has planned for Chapel.

It’s interesting that Brian Witten’s writing this longer story here (with some help from Eric Stephenson), as this was during a time when single-issue stories were more common in comic books. The action is good but a little repetitive. Chapel keeps getting into massive gunfights with multiple attackers, which leads to several pages of gun violence. It looks good, thanks to Calvin Irving, but there’s never any sense of danger since Chapel not only easily kills everyone but never gets hit by a single bullet no matter how many people shoot him.

This issue also continues the subplot of Chapel getting random visions from his demonic persona, Lord Chapel. So, more personal characterization instead of constant action would improve this series.