The story tells of Vincent Omata, a man living in Gotham City, told in flashbacks. As a boy, Vincent loves to draw lying on his bedroom floor for hours at a time. Ignoring his father's criticisms, Vincent enrolls in the fine arts program at Gotham University as an adult. There, his professor deems him not talented enough to succeed and cruelly suggests a career in dentistry instead. Over time, Vincent's fruitless toil as a struggling artist causes the deterioration of his relationship, ending in his girlfriend Charlotte walking out on him after six years. The short finds Vincent painting the front gates at Arkham Asylum, where he is fired in short order for his slow pace of work and defiant attitude. He seeks solace in a bar, but is tormented by ghosts of his past in the form of fiery demons: his father, his art professor, Charlotte, and now his former boss at Arkham. At the bar, Vincent encounters a pale woman in black clothes and gothic makeup. Immediately enamoured with her, Vincent expresses a desire to paint her portrait, but the woman explains she has to go and exits the bar to the sounds of police sirens. Vincent staggers home to a decrepit apartment. He shoots up on the couch and falls into a deep sleep, only waking to the sound of a crash. Vincent looks out his window to find the same goth woman being yelled at by two strangers. Vincent defends her from the window, but when he goes outside to help, he finds her all alone, the two people revealed to the viewers as the victims of the recent car crash. The woman offers to see Vincent's work, and he brings her up to his apartment. Inside, Vincent is shy about all his unfinished canvases, and his demons ridicule him. The woman remarks that he's gifted, but notes that there is a spark missing from his work that he may have had long ago. Vincent explains about his childhood spent on his bedroom floor drawing, and how it felt like time stopped when he was creating. He again mentions painting her portrait, explaining that he sees something special in her. She graciously agrees to pose for him. As Vincent prepares to paint, the demons tirelessly try to distract him but he ignores them. While he paints, the demons begin to die, burning out one by one. When he is finished, Vincent is amazed with his work until he realizes that it is still evening and time has stopped. It is revealed that the mysterious woman is Death and that Vincent died from an overdose of heroin on his couch hours ago. Distraught, Vincent posits that at least this portrait will be a worthwhile thing to leave behind. However, when time unpauses, ash from the cigarette in Vincent's corpse's hand falls onto some loose papers and sets his apartment on fire. He attempts to save the painting, but his ghostly body is unable to touch it. Vincent begs Death to stop this, but Death remarks that the end of his story was written in the book of Destiny long before he was born. As the apartment burns, Vincent asks her to save the painting as his last wish. Morphing into the boy he once was when he was drawing, he thanks her and Death leads him by hand to the afterlife. Later, after Gotham City Fire Department puts out the fire and Vincent's charred body is carried away, firefighters are surprised to find everything destroyed but the portrait.
Waking up months after his squadron was killed in a fierce battle and recovering from his injuries, Sgt. Rock is tasked by Lt. Matthew Shrieve to capture a German Nazi scientist, giving him the top secret Creature Commandos at his service. The Commandos consist of Pvt. Warren Griffith, a wolfman hybrid, Sgt. Vincent Velcoro, a vampire, and Pvt. Elliot "Lucky" Taylor, a Frankenstein-like Monster. The squad was to infiltrate a medieval castle and capture the Nazi scientist and his assistant alive. Sgt. Rock had to keep his men restrained from going overboard especially Velcoro who was literally bloodthirsty saying "Nazi soldiers are human beings, not food" when they took out a German patrol near the castle. They quietly entered the castle and found the scientist but they got ambushed by Rock's archenemy the Iron Major and a fight ensures. The assistant scientist activated a switch to a generator powering a "rumored doomsday weapon" Sgt. Rock was informed by Lt. Shrieve but there was also a loud pounding sound coming from large steel doors in the laboratory. Taylor destroyed the generator and the steel doors burst open. Sgt. Rock, at first, thought reinforcements arrived when he saw what he believed were silhouettes of U.S. soldiers but Iron Major was laughing and then to his horror it was reveled that his squad Easy Company were revived as undead soldiers. The Creature Commandos managed to kill five of the zombies but they found out the generator that was destroyed was powering to revive Rock's friend Bulldozer. Bulldozer was a physically equal match to Taylor and both Velcoro and Griffith could not stop him either. Sgt. Rock managed to get a hold of his Thompson submachine gun and fired a full magazine, full auto burst at Bulldozer blowing the latters head off killing him. As the laboratory catches on fire, Iron Major and the scientists attempt to flee but Rock and the Commandos corner them. The Major gloats saying Rock won't shoot them because he has orders to take them alive so that the Americans can force them to build their own "army of the dead". Realizing this, Rock orders the Commandos to kill the Iron Major and the scientists and burn down the castle along with every trace of their research. Once outside, Rock order the Commandos to fall in as he is about to make a statement. He says that Lt. Shrieve has been taking them for granted and Rock has guaranteed he will do everything in his power so that never again will the Creature Commandos be deployed in battle in this manner. As they move out, Rock takes one last look at the burning castle knowing he has given Easy Company a proper cremation before he departs.
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