Matthew Atherton is lying near death when his mind flashes back to how his story began. It was his father's death which led him to retreat into the fantasy of comic book and video games. He operates as Tech for hire when things start to get interesting. Matt is pummelled a few times in the preview issue and readers don't see him as Feedback. Other characters of importance are introduced including his future wife, Sarah Blevins and a potential new employer called Ironside who appears to be from the government.

Well-known author Harlan Ellison writes the Introduction and observes that what sets this series apart from similar Heavy Metal productions is the fact that the artwork by Corben, enhances and compliments, rather than overwhelms the storyline of Strnad.

Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s (though the genre had continuing popularity in Europe, and persists in limited form in American comics today). Western comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about cowboys, gunfighters, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, and Native Americans. Accompanying artwork depicted a rural America populated with such iconic images as guns, cowboy hats, vests, horses, saloons, ranches, and deserts, contemporaneous with the setting.

While Joshua Rose's body lies in a coma, victim of a massive stroke, his wandering consciousness encounters a benevolent, ethereal entity he names Mercy. Pursuing the mysterious being around the globe, Rose watches as she touches the lives of anguished individuals, darkened by the shadow of despair, ignored by all but the enigmatic Mercy. In England, she defends a suburban family against a wrathful poltergeist. In a South American rain forest, she aids a young boy through a harrowing rite of passage. In Brooklyn, she inspires an elderly woman trapped by memories of the past and fears for the future. Driven to uncover Mercy's secrets, Joshua's quest for answers takes him to the brink of sanity. But what he learns will change him and his universe forever.

Years ago, unbeknownst to the public, the U.S. government built a walled city on an abandoned island in the Pacific Ocean. The purpose of this city was to house an experimental testing facility for a multitude of monsters that had been captured over the years. But in 2012 disaster struck and the island was evacuated and is now overrun by a multitude of different terrifying creatures and beings. But something extremely valuable was left behind and some very rich people want it. And the only way to get what they want is by sending a mercenary unit into the most dangerous place in the world: Monster Island.