Descent to Nowhere. Issue 1

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Descent to Nowhere. Issue 1

Publisher

Bandai Namco Entertainment

Titan Comics^[1]

Published

October 8, 2025

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Descent to Nowhere. Issue #1 is the first comic released for the series. The first issue tells of two parallel stories, one set in the Counties with Myra and Marion and one set in the Nowhere with Hush and Mono.

Website Description[]

Hush, a timid mute girl wakes up in a jail cell. Desperate to escape, she befriends another prisoner, Mono, who understands this world far better than her and thus abandons the girl every chance he gets. Left to fend for herself, Hush must slink through the labyrinthine corridors where monstrosities lurk around every corner.

Elsewhere, in the Counties, Myra, a drug-addicted detective has grown exhausted from living in a city where everyone ignores the strange darkness and depravity around them. She plans to end life on her own terms-- until she meets a naive officer, Marion Guy, whose blind resolve convinces her to try one last time to make a difference.^[2]^[3]

Plot[]

Hush awaken in the cold cell of a dungeon, unsure of where she is but shocked to find her right arm in a cast, after looking around she spots Mono in the cell next to hers, his attention fixated on a television just outside his cell. As a Guard passes by, Hush grabs a loose pipe to trip the guard, allowing her to obtain the keys to unlock her cell and Mono's. However, it isn't long before the Jailer arrives. Mono, quickly hides under a bench and Hush follows, but Mono takes no chance staying with her and quickly runs off on his own to escape, narrowly outrunning the Jailer and exiting the room through a pipe in the wall. Hush tries to escape on her own before the Jailer reaches her and finds a pit prison leading deep underground with a cage suspended from a chain. As she slips through the metal bars of another exit at the bottom of the pit, the bars suddenly bend together around her casted arm. As Hush tries to release her arm from the bars, a wrapped bundle in the suspended cage drips a dark liquid on her trapped hand. Hush manages to free her arm, but the dark liquid begins to burry itself under her skin.

In the Counties, weeks earlier, Myra Wan stands at the edge of the Counties bridge, not remember how she got there but is nonetheless preparing to jump while everything is quiet. She feels the cold around her, realizing winter has arrived to the city and was once her favorite time of the year growing up. Although the landmarks of city remain unchanged, she hardly recognizes the city anymore after seeing what's in their shadows, shadows that have trickled into her, something she blames herself for as she was the one who joined the police force. Having spent 20 years as a cog in the system, she believed she could make difference, loving the Counties as best she could. Myra drops her police office badge over the edge and watches it fall into the water. Myra thinks back the an FM broadcast she heard say, "Give a lover long enough, they'll control you, like a bad infection." reminding her that the reason she is at the edge of the bridge now was because she was tired of feeling like a puppet. Now ready to cut her strings, she puts one foot over the edge of the bridge. Suddenly, a man named Marion Guy appears asking if she can see out of the eye tattoo on the back of her neck. Myra informs him 3 other people walked by without stopping and he should do the same.

While the other citizens behavior does not surprise him, he has no intention to leave. Marion introduces himself as another police office just like her, explaining he knows her from their line of work and tries to sway her to stand down from the Counties bridge. Though he does not believe there are wonders of life for him to tell her, he knows she does not belong on the edge of the bridge, that jumping would only give the bridge what it wants. Marion tries telling her a story he thinks might help, a story about a man pushing a bolder up a hill who in the end keeps pushing it up the hill forever. As Myra listens to his story, she can tell he is genuinely trying and is not yet broken, but understands he is using a method she knows is a trick taught to law enforcements to deal with jumpers. Myra complies with the man and steps down from the edge of the bridge, but only to get out of the cold and come back later to the bridge. Marion offers Myra a gum pop, of which he has plenty to adhere to his doctors orders to quit smoking. Not wanting to talk, Myra decides to return to her apartment for a drink and allows Marion to come along. Myra warns him of what he might see at her apartment as she does not have company often, but he does not think to judge as he has seen worse. As they walk away, the silhouettes of numerous hanged bodies dangle below the bridge.

Back at Myra's messy apartment, she monologues about how a door is a threshold in more ways than one, entering another persons home is like entering their brain, everything is laid out bare. However, Myra is not nervous about Marion entering her apartment, instead he is the one sweating nervously. Marion talks to her about understanding her feelings of disappointment with life, as he has personally felt a knot in his stomach every morning he arrived to the station, one that didn't used to be there. Despite initially putting the blame on drinking too much coffee, cutting back did not solve what he felt, the feeling got tighter the more he noticed his former partner and colleagues drifting around, laughing through yellow teeth as cases piled up, comparing them to having two faces but who lost their real ones along the way. Marion realizes he is rambling instead of letting Myra talk, then switches the subject upon noticing the bowl of pills on the living room table and asks Myra if the pills help. Myra explains that the pills used to help her tune out the same duplicity that he described knotted his stomach, but no longer helped as of recently. With nothing left to give her peace, she decided to end her life.

Marion asks if something changed to which she explained that she fell in too far and then the hole started filling up with pictures, dreams of a little girl that are strange yet familiar. Marion, noticing she is talking about something private and secret to her, tells her she does not need to tell him everything if it's personal to her. Myra refrains from continuing, claiming it does not matter, raising question in Marion if it truly doesn't. Myra questions Marion why he was also at the bridge at daybreak, as it is not a place people happen across. Marion explains he woke up early that morning, but with nothing good on the television to watch and both his meditation and gum pops unable to ease him, he decided he needed some fresh air. While he does not know about it being fate, he believes their paths crossed on the bridge for a reason and can trust his senses on that. Marion tries to convince Myra to work with him, believing her to be the only other cop with a light on still inside, though Myra believed her light is off. In order to better appeal to Myra and make her gain an interest, he claims "The Milk Carton Cases" surrounding the many vanishing children from the Counties is where they can start. Marion bringing up the Milk Carton Cases pricks the emptiness inside Myra, she knows the vanished children haunt every mind in the Counties, but those very same cases have also made it the perfect place for people to forget. Although repeated failures from investigating the Milk Carton cases was what took too much out of her, she does not immediately reject Marion's offer. Marion pushes his offer further by explaining their attempts to solve the cases will be all or nothing, it can only result in either success or failure,

Despite Myra's doubts, he convinces her to his offer of working together on the condition that should they succeed, then their efforts in solving the cases will be the change needed to finally wake up the Counties, but should they fail, he will return her to the bridge and jump with her. As Myra shakes Marion's hand to agree to his offer, a bird crashes and cracks the nearby window where a red "X" is drawn. The next morning Myra awakens from a peculiar dream of a little girl whose face she cannot see. She hears the radio forecast a lasting week long drizzle beginning in the evening. As she exits the door to her apartment, a shadowy figure watches her from the end of the hall, but when she turns, it disappears. As Myra heads to the Police Station, she struggles with a headache as she walks along the same route she would always take there, feeling it is more of a maze now than ever. At the police station, Myra requests the milk carton cases files, believing them to be linked to a homicide she was working.

Despite her efforts, the Chief refuses her request for direct access, stating Myra is not of rank and simply requesting the files now is not acceptable as she needed to fill out the proper form, form QW-247, to request the files before hand, while additionally adding that the cases and Myra's homicide case are not linked despite Myra's protest of there being a possible connection to investigate. The Chief asks an upset Myra to stay seated and then suspends her upon looking at her poor condition, but Myra resigns instead, placing her gun and hand cuffs on the table. The chief ask Myra to also return her police badge, but Myra tells her she lost it in the river and is something the Chief will need to fish out of the waters herself. As Myra leaves the Chief's office, she thinks about how much she is spelunking into misery and wonders how deep that misery actually goes. Myra packs up her office, Marion enters the room and informs her he also could not access the classified files for the milk carton cases, but was able to use his ex-partners code, which had not yet been de-activated, to access recent reports, allowing him to uncover a lead of a child who vanished from the Counties Psychiatric Institute the previous night.

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Trivia[]

The story Marion tells Myra to sway her not to jump is likely about the mythological figure of Sisyphus, who was forced by the gods to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back every time he neared the top.