Shadowpact #2 - DC

Interesting bunch of characters. This book comes directly from the Infinite Crisis storyline. It's written and drawn by Bill Willingham, so, what could go wrong. This issue starts out, as explained by the Phantom Stranger, "It's been a year since the Shadowpact disappeared inside the blood barrier, which still stands, entirely covering the town of River Rock Wyoming. This world's most powerful sorcerers have failed to destroy the barrier, and my one attempt to pierce it nearly killed me and leveled the forest for miles around." Then we go back one year, to when the Shadowpact first entered the bubble, and watch them take on their conterparts, the Pentacle, inside who are trying to build a "Murder Hole" where they can kill townsfolk and send their bodies through as sacrifices in order to open a doorway for a lord of light that they want to bring across from another universe. Something that they learn through their skirmishes is that the two teams are almost member for member the opposite of each other. Little bit more than a coincidence? The issue ends with the Pentacle ready to make a sacrifice, and their member Karnevil, ready to do a little carving of his own on the Detective Chimp. Next issue is called, "Feeding the Hole". Ominous, huh?