DAHLIA INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL DAHLIA THORIS HAD JUST ROBBED A BANK IN MODERN-DAY GERMANY. SHE SPED OFF ON HER MOTORCYCLE WITH THE GERMAN POLICE IN HOT PURSUIT.

SHE CAME SCREECHING AROUND A CORNER AND SPOTTED A TOWN AHEAD, BUT SHE DIDN’T SEE THE GROUP OF SS SOLDIERS ON THE ROAD.

SHE CRASHED HEADFIRST INTO DEMETRIE AND FLEW OVER THE HANDLEBARS OF HER MOTORCYCLE WITH HER BAG OF CASH.

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THE GERMAN COPS ARRIVED AND SAW THE SS BUT FIGURED IT WAS A WAR REENACTMENT. THEY JUMPED OUT AND DREW THEIR GUNS ON DAHLIA. DAHLIA GOT UP ONTO HER HANDS AND KNEES ...

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! AND CAME UP FIRING ... THE NAZIS DIDN’T KNOW THE COPS WERE GERMAN, SO THEY JOINED IN. BLAM! BUT THEN DAHLIA SHOT THEM TOO.ONCE EVERYONE WAS DEAD, DAHLIA PUT HER GUN AWAY ...

SHE RIGHTED HER BIKE ......AND SHOT OUT OF TOWN. BUT JUST AS DAHLIA ROUNDED THE CORNER ... CRASH!! SHE HIT THE INSIDE OF THE MARWENCOL DOME.

SHE REACHED UP AND FELT THE SURFACE OF THE DOME. SHE COULD SEE THE OUTSIDE WORLD SHE’D JUST COME FROM, BUT SHE COULDN’T GET OUT THERE. THEN DAHLIA LOOKED AROUND AND SAW A LADY WITH BLUE HAIR. DEJA? HELLO, DEAR SISTER.

MARWENCOL IS SURROUNDED BY AN INVISIBLE DOME – A FORCE FIELD THAT KEEPS THE TOWN PERPETUALLY TRAPPED IN WORLD WAR II BELGIUM. ANYONE CAN PASS INTO THE MARWENCOL DOME – EVEN THOSE FROM THE MODERN WORLD – BUT ONLY THE OPEN-MINDED MAY LEAVE.

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THE SISTERS WALKED UP MAIN STREET TO FIX DAHLIA’S BIKE. SHE DIED LAST YEAR. SHE ASKED FOR YOU. WHAT’S UP WITH THIS PLACE? AND HOW’S MOM? SUDDENLY, SOMETHING AHEAD MADE DAHLIA STOP IN HER TRACKS.

SINCE THE MODERN GERMAN COPS WERE FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD, THEY WERE DEAD. BUT THE WORLD WAR II NAZIS FROM MARWENCOL RESPAWN AFTER THEIR DEATHS. THEY JUST GOT UP, DUSTED THEMSELVES OFF, AND WALKED AWAY.

ANOTHER NAZI HAD BEEN BURIED FOR TWO YEARS. JEEPS AND TRUCKS HAD FLATTENED HIM INTO THE GROUND. BUT EVIL NEVER DIES IN MARWENCOL ...

SUDDENLY, THE SOLDIER SPOTTED THE TOWN FOUNTAIN. AFTER BEING BURIED FOR TWO YEARS, HE WANTED SOME WATER. BUT DAHLIA HAD OTHER PLANS ...

BLAM! BLAM! THAT, DEAR SISTER, IS HOW I GET THINGS DONE. WHAT THE HELL?!! ONLY ONE THING CAN KILL THE NAZIS IN MARWENCOL ... AND IT ISN’T BULLETS.

THIS, DEAR DAHLIA, IS HOW WE DO THINGS IN MARWENCOL. POOFFF ??? IN A FLASH, DEJA ZAPPED THE SS SOLDIER INTO THE LAND OF THE KNIGHT OF MARWENCOL.

THE KNIGHT RODE UP SILENTLY BEHIND HIM ... FSSHT!!

NOW DECAPITATED, THE SS SOLDIER COULD NEVER RETURN TO THE STORY AGAIN ... THE MYSTERIOUS KNIGHT HAD STRUCK AGAIN ...