By: Scott Stewart, Tom Waltz, Jose Holder, J. F. Bruckner

In the second of four weekly issues that lead directly into the movie, readers are introduced to the Guardian-a three thousand-dollar-an-hour modern day geisha name Miko Hogosha. Tonight she awakens to an apocalyptic nightmare in an ultra high-tech penthouse apartment in New York, and must escape a city gone mad in her quest to get to the new Cradle of Civilization.