Escape from the Abyss

Escape from the Abyss is Volume 1 of Kino (Kinetic Impulse Neoterrestrial Operative) dedicated to his personal events during and after The Event

Comics

 * Chapter 1
 * Chapter 2: Chess Pieces
 * Chapter 3: View Askew
 * Chapter 4

Summary
The series starts with Agent Gilmour meeting with Lorena Payan at Foresight a few months after The Event to mention that Foresight may have possession of Meath and he requests for the body back (with no official mandates, of course), Payan lies that she doesn't have the body only for Gilmour to leave with Meath's body using a Stealth Team. Sadly, they didn't get far before getting shot down by a Foresight aircraft that could bypass their cloaking. Gilmour was the sole survivor of the mission.

The following month in the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Dr. Aturo Assante creates the "Creeping Death" using gene splicing experiments with active fusion molecules. Alistair is revealed to be alive and well only to introduce his KINO character after a ribbon cutting ceremony. Kino soon finds himself fighting against the Creeping Death (that looks oddly enough like him), after defeating him, it's mentioned that Aturo is just putting Meath's body through multiple simulations that he's being warned, may make Meath psychotic. Assante, however, wants that to happen.

In continuing to search for Meath's body, a fully recovered Gilmour first informed Patricia Meath that his body is still not currently recovered. But that it will be.

In another simulation, KINO fights "killer bees" (robotic bank robbers that look like bees) that apparently turned to alien invaders after they shedded their robotic exosuits. This sends Meath on a psychological break.

Meanwhile in Whitechapel, Foresight employees, Jack Kroeger and Melanie Pang appoint Clarence Coal to retrieve Alistair Meath's body.

Back in the simulation, Meath is encountered by the "Cobra Club Scouts" kids who know that he's KINO outside of costume and attack him once he transforms. The simulation gets even more aggressive when it's learned that the Cobra Club Scouts are robots which, while equally hostile and morally corrupt, still looked like children. Once more, KINO questions the authenticity of the world he's in once he notices the crowd watching him defeat the Cobras applaud despite it looking like he's killed robotic children.

Assante notices the anomalies in Meath's brain and despite warnings, decide to apply "Antagonist ID File: King Kobra" into the simulation. Inside the simulation, Meath finds his family and have a conversation which seems "off" to him before they are attacked by King Kobra, who in the heat of the fight, summons his past adversaries, Creeping Death, Cobra Club Scouts and the Killer Bees before Aturo Assante reveals himself once again in their final confrontation, destroying the simulator.

Characters

 * Agent Gilmour
 * Lorena Payan
 * KINO
 * Aturo Assante
 * Patricia Meath
 * Jack Kroeger
 * Melanie Pang
 * Clarence Coal