the policeman. Lewis takes home to investigate it a mechanical teddy bear, which has a small compartment containing a parchment scroll with the Hebrew word for Death written on it. He pockets this parchment. Lady Mechanika and DI Singh interview a Jewish Rebbe who reveals that the relict may have been used to ward off evil spirits by someone who summoned and controls them. Lady Mechanika and Lewis interview an innocent mechanical toymaker who has supplied to order mechanical figures with small compartments in the mouth for a Mr Durrant. The figures supplied include a ten foot high clockwork man. Durrant is the wealthy but elderly and frail owner of the workshop building. Lady Mechanika, DI Singh and Mr Lewis visit Durrant in Lewis’ flying vehicle. They inspect the house, discover the toy man who confesses, but are attacked by the ten foot high man, a body now inhabited by Lord Durrant. Durrant had become obsessed with avoiding death and with creating a race of gods, using all the best minds of humanity and capturing them in mechanical creatures. The fight ends when Lady Mechanika places the Death parchment in the mouth of the ten foot high man, who shuts down. Lady Mechanika parts company with DI Singh on excellent terms. She and Lewis rush home, fearing the mechanical bear from which the parchment was taken may have “woken up” and become a threat to Winifred, Lady Mechanika's young friend. In fact, they find she has taught the bear to play the piano to a remarkable degree: it chooses to be called Mon-Ti, but it is left unanswered as to whether the bear contains the mind of the other small boy missing from the urchin group, but devoid of memories as is Lady Mechanika. References External links Aspen Comics homepage Lady Mechanika creator page Lady Mechanika page at Image Comics 2010 comics debuts Aspen Comics titles Steampunk comics