Jessica first appears in Issue 1 watching one of Kenneth's films, and praising him for his acting. Kenneth's dog, Bear, appears, and she complains that he loves the dog more than he does her. She then asks him why he keeps so many strange paintings in his mansion, and he tells her that it calms him by portraying "inner reality." In Issue 2, Jessica is found dead, with an axe buried in her skull, by Kenneth's agent; presumably done by Lauryn LaRoache to make Kenneth think he murdered her, thus turning him into a psycho killer. On the wall above her corpse is a message written in blood: