On the distant moon of Ylum, an enigmatic man is plagued by nightmares. He is forced to dream of the past. He dreams of real-life butchers and tyrants, and what they have done.

In this second volume of the acclaimed and multiple Eisner Award-winning series, reluctant vigilante Nexus-AKA Horatio Hellpop-sets out with the gregarious warrior Judah Maccabee for a drinking man's tour of the galaxy.

This latest collection of the landmark sci-fi series re-presents the original Nexus issues twelve through eighteen from First Comics-an indispensable storyline in the history of Horatio Hellpop's plagued existence.

Every once in a while a creation appears that both reinvents and epitomizes its genre.

In this volume, the enigmatic executioner meets his match in the evil Clayborn.

Ylum shakes with the Merk's rage! Nexus sent Gucci-trained Quatro assassins Kreed and Sinclair to do his work of killing mass-murderers, but since then they've butchered over three thousand people in pursuit of two hundred!

The Merk is restless, dissatisfied with Nexus's performance as champion and executioner since the massacre on Mars.

Horatio, Judah, and the Badger have survived their reentry of the Bowl-Shaped World. As they head from outer rim to inner city, the threat that prompted this journey worsens: the Gravity Well is nearing collapse.

Horatio has resigned his duties as Nexus, and the Merk has reassigned them . . . but to the Loomis sisters, who have been out for vengeance ever since Horatio assassinated their father. However, the staggering power that comes with being fusionkasters corrupts quickly, and Lonnie is so unnerved by her sisters' homicidal behavior that she escapes to the planet Procyon-home to none other than the always-scheming Ursula X.

History professor Stanislaus Korivitsky has been chosen by the Merk to inherit the role of Nexus, fusionkasting executioner of mass murderers. Far saner than his predecessors, Stacy and Michana Loomis, Stan immediately kills his first target and then sets off for A.J. Cronin-megalomaniacal CEO of a massively influential (and less than ethical) multiplanetary company, the Scorporation.

Saved from certain death by Sundra's shrewd business dealings, current Nexus Stan Korivitsky attempts to pick up where he left off: creating the University of Ylum and pursuing a relationship with Sonia, a former mole within the Elvonic Order. However, when the latter attachment is violently severed, Stan throws himself into his Nexus work with such brutal and indiscriminate fervor that even Ylum is forced to cut ties!

First the headaches, then the nightmares of mass murderers who must die . . . by his hand, the hand that wields the energy of a living sun, the hand of Nexus. Possessing limitless power, Nexus is the greatest avenger in history, but his power and purpose come from an alien race with their own agenda.

Plagued by nightmares of the horrific misdeeds of his mass-murderer targets, the executioner Nexus chooses a life-threatening procedure to block his tormenting night visions. But though the nightmares cease, the behavior of Nexus becomes increasingly erratic and violent, a dangerous development for a man who wields the power of the stars!

The mighty Nexus is charged and empowered to execute the galaxy's mass murderers, and there is no shortage of targets. But when Nexus delegates some of his docket, the appointed assassins go on a rampage, killing thousands, and Nexus must intervene or become responsible for genocide himself!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: AUGUST 27, 2013