One night Gabriel Garrison was visited by a nameless messenger who
bestowed upon him great power, a power intended for good. Once discovering
what this power was and what it enabled him to do, Gabriel became Axiom-man, a symbol of hope in a city that had none.

       A young boy goes missing.
       Taken, in the middle of the night.
       No clues. Nothing except the remnants of a black cloud, like the one coughed up from inside the Doorway of Darkness.
       A black cloud that takes Axiom-man to a world not his own.
       A dead world, where a gray and brown sky shrouds an entire city in a miasma of decay.
       The streets are empty. The young boy is nowhere to be found.
       Those he does find...are dead.
       And walking.