The Ride Burning Desire 2 Of 5

Samantha Vega learns that her old friends on the police force are just waiting for her to screw up and get sent back to prison. And with that added pressure, her regret-filled nightmares of what put her in prison to begin with only grow stronger. In this issueÕs backup feature, artists CHRIS BRUNNER and RICO RENZI (LOOSE ENDS, Spider-Gwen) reveal the tragic backstory of a dancer with a leather fetish.

THE RIDE celebrates its 15th anniversary with a five-part story from the award-winning team of PLASTIC, plus a special backup feature from ADAM HUGHES! After serving a hard 15 years in prison on a murder plea, former Atlanta P.D. detective Samantha Vega now makes her living as a bouncer at an exotic dance club. But life on the outside isn't easy, especially when enemies have scores to settle

After a 15-year stint in prison, disgraced former detective Samantha Vega works as a bouncer. But when she discovers the exotic dancers in her care are in danger, Vega must decide if she's willing to risk her freedom to help the people with nowhere else to turn. From the award-winning PLASTIC team, DOUG WAGNER & DANIEL HILLYARD, and acclaimed comics artists ADAM HUGHES (Wonder Woman), CULLY HAMNER (Red), TOMM COKER (BLACK MONDAY MURDERS), CHRIS BRUNNER (Spider-Gwen), and more. Collects THE RIDE: BURNING DESIRE #1-5

When a dancer is found dead and her daughter missing, the cops write it off as just another overdosed tweaker and a runaway kid. But Vega knows better, and now she has to decide if she's willing to risk her freedom in order to help those who have nowhere else to turn. And CULLY HAMNER (Red, Batman and The Signal) returns to THE RIDE for an explosive story about stuffed bunnies and hand grenades.

When another dancer is murdered, Vega must choose between freedom, death, and a merry band of misfit exotic dancers. All this and the strangest backup story so far! TOMM COKER (THE BLACK MONDAY MURDERS) returns to THE RIDE to tell the story of how a devil-worshipping biker cult drives a woman to nunhood.

**MINISERIES FINALE** Sprout has decided a suicide mission is her only chance at revenge. However, Serena and Beatrix—armed with a bag of photos, a polaroid camera, and a plethora of club dancers—are determined to show her there's a better way.

Sprout continues to bait Dillinger and his high-priced thugs into one death trap after another throughout New York City. But when the bedlam spills into Sprout’s warehouse bunker, will she, Serena, and their new best bunny companion Beatrix survive the chaos of gunfire, booby traps, and grenade launchers?

Dillinger holds Serena and Beatrix hostage in an evacuated hospital, the building now a death trap designed specifically for Sprout. The only chance Sprout has to rescue her newfound friends? A supply closet full of surgical stabby-stabby stuff.