Top Cow Comics

Hundreds of years after a cataclysmic event scorched the surface, Earth and its inabitants have been forever altered and a new landscape and political struggle has taken hold between two distinct factions fighting for control. Aphrodite IX is both anachronism and advanced technology in a world that she no longer recognizes. To survive in this future, she must choose sides in a war.

The Angelus entity is the embodiment and ruler of the Light. She is the equal and opposite force of The Darkness. Angelus and the Darkness are two of the most powerful entities that make up the 13 Artifacts. As one of two primal forces of the universe, and being the embodiment and ruler of the Light, Angelus has been at war with her equal and opposite, The Darkness, since the beginning of Creation.

Across the millennia, the Magdalenas, official warrior protectors of the Catholic Church have battled in secret, protecting humanity from the supernatural threats and evil that would tear our world apart. The Magdalene is trained on several forms and styles of fighting.

The Darkness is an ageless power dating to before human history. The Darkness is one of the two primal forces of the universe, the other being its equal and opposite the Angelus. The Darkness and the Angelus have been at war since the Creation, before which the Darkness was the original void of primordial chaos.

New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini is the latest in a long line of bearers of the Witchblade, a mysterious artifact that takes the form of a deadly and powerful mystical gauntlet. Bound by destiny, the Witchblade chooses one woman in a generation.