Previously, in BLACK DOOR: Fiona Street, head of the Nightwatch initiative, informs Garrett and crew that mankind is the bad guy in its inter-universal conflict…

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Garrett let loose before his men could protest. "What do you mean we're the bad guys? We just got attacked by a six-legged dragon. It tore off the front of the Hyatt-Regency. Sizemore here got dropped from orbit without a parachute. I got chased naked through razor-sharp rocks by a dog the size of a tank. That same dog came through a rift in space to try and kill us all. How does any of that make us the bad guys?"

Street took his complaint with a bland expression. She waited all the way through it and, when he ran out of breath, waited some more to...

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