Writer: Ralph Tedesco
Penciler: Rearte

I honestly don’t know where to start. This series is the latest in a line dealing with sisters Mercy and Grace, whose parents were killed by an assassin. Mercy grew up to be a contract killer in a bellyshirt, who killed herself rather than kill the assassin’s daughter. The backstory is necessary since there’s also a woman named Sela Mathers, who “has the power to help people choose the correct path in life,” who sent Mercy back in time to undo killing that assassin’s daughter.

When we meet Grace, she’s suffering from amnesia from a car accident six months ago. She has bad luck as evidenced by her purse being knocked over and her cellphone stepped on. Despite never recovering her memory, she has a job as an insurance sales associate and a boyfriend of some time. The problem is that her boss is threatening to fire her if she doesn’t sleep with him and her boyfriend is an alcoholic who doesn’t take backtalk. Add to the fact that her therapist is making her take medication for hallucinations, and you can see why you would think she’s cursed.

Things get weird when, while riding the subway, she sees a passenger with a demon face and a blind guy tells her she needs to open her eyes, and that “they” would be coming for her. Immediately upon leaving the subway, she’s set upon by rapists. She arm drags one to the ground and scratches his face when he lunges for her again, making the reader wonder where was this Grace when she was getting felt up by her boss and smacked around by her boyfriend. The other rapist (they’re apparently twins since they’re drawn exactly alike) knocks her to the ground, and before he can get to work a gray-haired woman in a purple business suit shows up with a gun to scare them off. She’s the Sela who helped Mercy shoot herself in the previous mini, and she’s here to help(?) Grace.

I don’t think words can express how much regret I feel after reading this…whatever this is. It was like a Lifetime movie with big boobs. How does an amnesiac get a job and abusive boyfriend in six months? She couldn’t remember anything from before her accident. Who takes that as an acceptable work history? Her boss already knew about her medical bills. And wouldn’t that amnesia be a pre-existing condition? Ugh. Being cryptic in the beginning can be forgiven if it was so unoriginal. And the backstory! The only way for Mercy to stop herself was suicide? What about the time honored tradition of walking away? Just tragic writing. The art isn’t a complete waste, except for the fact that its being used to illustrate this mess. Grace seems to fall and pose seductively on purpose, making you wonder if maybe those rapists were just getting mixed signals. Because really, who gets sexually harassed, beaten by their boyfriend and attacked by rapists within 24 hours?

Rating: F Whoa Nelly, stay the hell away from this one.