The Broken Halo

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## The Broken Halo

* Original Cover
* 2023 Reprint

### Publisher

Nobrow Press (2019)Union Square & Co. (2023)

**The Broken Halo** is the second published graphic novel of the *DeadEndia* franchise, illustrated by the author, Hamish Steele. It was published on November 1st, 2019. The book was reprinted on May 2nd, 2023 by Union Square & Co.

## Biography

War is brewing across the thirteen planes and as always, haunted house attraction and portal to hell Dead End is right at the centre of it. It's been weeks since Dead End was destroyed and as it reopens as a hotel, resident tour guide turned hotel manager Norma is determined to leave the ghosts of the past where they belong. But with her friendship with Barney up in the air, and angels and demons using the hotel as their literal wrestling ring, Norma soon finds that unwanted ghosts can appear at any moment, especially when they're your own.

## Characters

* Humans:
	+ Barney Guttman
	+ Norma Khan
	+ Logan Nguyen
	+ Badyah Hassan
	+ Ana Khan
* Animals:
	+ Pugsley *(Flashback, Mentioned, Clone)*
	+ The Watcher *(Mentioned)*
* Demons:
	+ Gord
	+ Asmodeus
	+ Hox
	+ Temeluchus *(Mentioned, Flashback)*
	+ Zagan
	+ Baal
	+ Paimon
	+ Mr. Nail-Face
* Angels:
	+ Pael
	+ Courtney
	+ Danny
	+ Fingers
	+ Kushiel
* Ghosts:
	+ Norma Khan
	+ Pauline

## Plot

After the death of Pugsley, Dead End has been rebuilt and as everyone is adjusting to their lives, with Norma now being able to die and have her ghost repossess her body, Paimon, the leader of the Demon Kings, arrives at Dead End hoping to find the killer of Temelechus. He attacks the park crew but they manage to defeat him; a flashback shows that Norma met Courtney when they had no memories. Barney, having left the park gang, is living with Logs and takes an offer from Hox, a demon, to become a demon wrestler, for which he is paid handsomely.

Courtney teaches Norma how to control her spirit powers and when Pauline Phoenix reappears, Norma kills her with her powers. At a getaway, Logs and Barney discover a dead deer and Barney discovers that Asmodeus, a fellow wrestler, is also there disguised as a human. Barney believes that Az may have slaughtered the deer but in the evening realizes that it was an unrelated demon, which Az kills. Logs leaves Barney and Az attempt to kiss him, only for Barney to turn him away.

At a wrestling match attended by the park gang and every demon, Barney discovers that Hox set him up to fight Zagan, Baal and Paimon, the Demon Kings and the siblings of Temelechus. Barney begins to lose but angels led by Kushiel break in and capture all the demons, including Courtney, while Norma is unable to control her powers and blows up her physical body, leaving her as a spirit. They head to the angel's plane to save Courtney where Norma possesses an angel, realizing that angels have no free will or any form of emotions consciousness.

Courtney, who is being mentally tortured by an unknown figure, is saved by Norma, Barney and Badyah before all three of them are suddenly impaled and killed by Kushiel. Courtney realizes this was a hallucination and the figure torturing him is Pael, the right-hand angel of the Divine, who reveals to Courtney that their real name is Cahatel and they were an angel before they broke their own Halo, essentially killing Cahatel and wiping their memories. Pael reveals that they still have Courtney's Halo but are killed by Badyah, who along with Norma and Barney kill a group of other angels by breaking their halos, much to Courtney's dismay.

Barney, Norma and Badyah arrive and realize that after multiple hallucinations in which either they or the angels die, Courtney has gone insane; they manage to break him out. Paimon fights with Kushiel and Paimon forgives the park gang for killing Temelechus, before he grabs a rock with a chain and brings it down on Kushiel, killing both himself and Kushiel. As the park gang attempts to get Courtney out of the plane, Pael arrives with the broken Halo and Courtney chooses to accept it, turning themselves back into Cahatel and wiping their memories. Pael and Courtney then leave as the park gang escape from the collapsing plane.

Cahatel is taken to a white void by Pael, who shows him the true source of the angels' power: a golden cloud of seemingly nothing, which puzzles Cahatel despite them not having any emotions. It is revealed that another angel that broke their Halo around the same time Cahatel did and knew Cahatel is growing a clone of Pugsley in a test tube.