A young artist who entered and won the TokyoBlast art competition. Martinez was one of five winners, all of whom fell victim to another entrant named Kenneth Erskine.

Erskine was a severely disabled young man who was given powers by Pestilence to lash out at the world. Erskine used his powers to murder the five winners of the competition, including Javier.

Jed lives with his wife, mother and son Jon in the rural wilderness of Northeast Minnesota. When Spawn's aimless wanderings led him near their home, Jon found him out in the snow and brought him home.

The family showed Spawn hospitality but disappeared in the night. Left alone, Spawn discovered that the family has been alive and unchanged at least since 1840 when a family photo was taken.

Outside, Spawn found a group of hunters being attacked by abnormally large wolves. He intervened and saved the lives of the hunters, and took the eye of one of the wolves before leaving again to wander.

Little did he know that the kind family were werewolves, and it was Grandmother Wolf's eye that was lost.

Alias: Sharpie, The Rose Killer

A former heavyweight boxer with brain damage from repeated blows to the head. Jeremiah was abused as a child by his father and he took out his anger on the opponents he faced in the ring. He killed his final challenger by beating him to a pulp in the ring, which earned him 4 years in Riker's.

After prison, Sharpie became the serial killer known as the Rose Killer (since he replaced his victims heads with roses). One of his victims, Gretchen Culver, returned after death as Suture and repaid his deeds.

A friend and former co-worker of Marc Rosen at the New York Clarion.

Jerry helped Marc get access to the newspaper's resources when he was looking for information on Matthew Ramus. Jerry was happy to help Marc because he felt indebted to him for “saving his ass' multiple times when they worked together.

Jesse was having an affair with a married woman named Emma-Lou. Their affair led to the death of Emma-Lou's husband Billy Bob, and Emma-Lou secretly regretted it afterwards.

In the early stages of the Apocalypse, a plague of Zombies engulfed Tennessee and Billy Bob was among those to rise from his grave. Jesse was eventually eaten alive by the zombified Emma-Lou and Billy Bob.

As Jim Downing's miracles began to occur more frequently and gain more media attention, a popular belief was that he may be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Unknown to the populace, Jesus was one of the many disguises of Mother.

According to K7Leetha, Jesus made it impossible for God to harness both light and dark at once - a betrayal against God.

Jim Downing announced in a press conference that he would be setting up a foundation through which he would reach out to those in need of medical help but whose conditions were untreatable by modern medicine.

Jim hoped to take some amount of control and enjoyment out of his life by creating the foundation and hoped that he might be able to help the world in the process.