The Trenchcoat Brigade

The Trenchcoat Brigade is a 4-part miniseries written by John Ney Rieber and published by Vertigo Comics, the more adult-orientated imprint of DC Comics. The plot involves the titular group of crime fighters and investigators trying to prevent a dystopian future, in which all life on Earth was consumed by M'nagalah. 
==Synopsis==
The story begins with a mysterious serial killer that is revealed to be Mister E, who had his psyche split into two after being traumatized by his past experiences and visions of an apocalyptic future. Mister E's string of murders were motivated by his goal to destroy the one responsible for the incoming apocalypse, while his other half Erik lived out a normal life with his family. After drawing the attention of his fellow Trenchcoat Brigade members, Mister E took them to the future where they met the only survivor Pyotr Konstantin, a distant relative of John Constantine who claimed to be haunted by ghosts in his head.
Traveling back to the year 1684 in the Ukraine, Pyotr was seemingly cooperative with the Trenchcoat Brigade until he casted a spell that forced them to face each other's inner demons. Parting ways with the Trenchcoat Brigade, Pyotr tried to stop the events that will lead to the incoming apocalypse by himself. Pyotr's past self was planning to marry Eliana, whose father is the king of the Leshy, in order to kill the king and steal a treasure known as the Eye of the World. Pyotr failed to convince his past self not to go through with the plan, only getting his head chopped off in the process. His severed but still living head was discovered by Eliana, who put it back onto his body; however, when Pyotr tried to convince her not to marry to marry his past self, Eliana got angry and knocked his head off again.
Shortly afterwards, Eliana discovered that the younger Pyotr did actually murder her father to obtain the Eye of the World; causing her kingdom to lose protection from the outside world, allowing Pyotr's men to pillage and burn the place down. While seeking revenge, Eliana retrieved the Book of Ending and her hand was eventually infected by M'nagalah.
Meanwhile, the Trenchcoat Brigade encountered Pyotr's head after they fought off each other's inner demons. Although embittered by the experiences that they had to endure, the Trenchcoat Brigade still cooperated with Pyotr, attaching his head back to his body so he can cast a visionary spell that showed a glimpse into the dystopian future where M'nagalah had consumed all of humanity. 
Near the present day in Chernobyl, Eliana conducted a ceremony that would summon M'nagalah to Earth; where she also encountered a pre-apocalypse version of Pyotr, who is revealed to have been kept alive to be given a conscience and tormented by guilt. Out of desperation to gain forgiveness, he agreed to help her with the ritual, betraying and outliving humanity in the process. 
When the Trenchcoat Brigade arrived, it was already too late as the ritual was completed and M'nagalah had fully manifested. Fortunately, Pyotr managed to sever Eliana's connection to M'nagalah and also killed his past self, causing him to fade out of existence and finally ending his misery. Now free from his influence, Eliana sacrificed herself by destroying the Book of Ending to banish M'nagalah back to his home dimension. Although M'nagalah tried to infect Mister E's body using his guilt, it was ultimately unsuccessful as E managed to fight it off and came to terms with his own guilt.
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