Secret Defenders, The (1993 series) #21

In Seattle, Cody Fleischer finally comes to terms with the fact that he is dead and he cannot go back to his old life. He receives a mental summons from Dr. Druid, calling him by his new identity Cadaver, summoning him to San Francisco. Cadaver steals a motorbike and heads off down the highway. Coming to a toll booth and not wishing to be delayed, he draws the Sword of Bone from his chest and slashes his way through the obstacle, calling himself the Pale Horseman. Onlookers mistake him for Ghost Rider….

In the sewers of San Francisco, Dr. Druid and Spider-Woman are trapped as part of a pyramid of bodies called the Panentropic Engine by its creator, a madman calling himself Slaymaker. He explains that as a child his mind was full of artistic vision but he had no skill or talent to create art so he turned to magic, learning the art of transfiguration. And his new creation, the Panentropic Engine, will enable him to manipulate and transform all of reality, molding it according to his vision. Druid attempts to hypnotize his foe but Slaymaker slaps some green goop across his eyes, blinding him….

At Druid’s Boston Sanctum, inside the Bride of Slorioth, Jillian Woods a/k/a Shadowoman is summoned by a voice, coming from a giant bull-like creature….

U.S. Agent arrives in San Francisco and encounters a bunch of teen punks doing drugs and vandalizing property. He puts a scare into them and warns them off drugs before asking them about Spider-Woman. They haven’t seen her so he moves on….

Druid and Spider-Woman try to make plans, Druid assuring her that help is on the way, but Slaymaker warns them that when the Engine is complete they will be a part of his mind…but then Cadaver bursts through the wall, wielding the Sword of Bone. Slaymaker sics his mutant monsters on him. U.S. Agent, who was following him, enters to a bizarre sight. Agent joins Cadaver in fighting the horde of monsters and Druid asks SW’s permission to see through her eyes and so sets Cadaver ablaze, his fiery form terrifying the villain’s monsters. U.S. Agent tries to rescue Spider-Woman (his original mission) but she warns him that she is fused to all the other bodies and it might be dangerous to extract her. Druid asks SW to weave a psionic web through the Engine then he will use his will to take it from the villain and use it to free them. There’s a massive explosion and Slaymaker is now trapped within his own mind, seeing it all as his vision of the world. Druid tells Spider-Woman and U.S. Agent to summon help for the injured while he and Cadaver return home….