Warlash: Dark Noir #3 (2009)

This issue concludes the Phlegm Fatale storyline wherein Warlash battles a biogenic beast in the sewers below Pittsburgh, but the battle is not over even after the beast has been destroyed. In Rocket’s Red Scare, Warlash is pitted against a biogenetically engineered villain who goes by the name of Trotsky De Sade, the crazed leader of the Gene Communist Militia. De Sade is a Neo-Cold War menace who has taken the form of Joseph Stalin to try to wreak havoc upon the capitalist pigs of Pittsburgh. Can Warlash and his new ally Vigil stop him? Or will De Sade be allowed to unleash his "stalinococcus" virus on an unsuspecting populace? In A Touch of Deadly, Warlash is deceived by a sexy D.A. to uncover a murder of an old Black Ops buddy. The plot thickens when Warlash uncovers a Russian cyborg smuggling ring.