A storm is coming. But it's not from the sky, it's from beneath.
When an unnatural winter descends on Central California in the middle of autumn, something ancient awakens. Streets freeze. Fog pulses like it has intent. And from the depths of a fractured earth rises a villain known only as Black Rime. A cryo-terrorist with a plan to punish humanity by rewriting the climate itself.
But the cold has also remembered something else.
Shawn Rourke, a decorated sergeant and father, feels the pull of something deeper, something encoded in the fabric of who he is. As reality itself bends around him, a transformation begins. He doesn't just gain power. He unlocks memory of battles never fought, of knowledge never learned, of a mantle that has chosen.
Echelon Prime emerges for the first time.
In this issue:
Witness the first full transformation into the Prime Mantle.
Experience the battle between elemental vengeance and cosmic responsibility.
See how the world reacts to a being that shouldn't exist.
This is myth born in the modern day. This is the sentinel of Continuity.
"You taught the ground to scream. I taught it how to exhale."