Daredevil Vs Vapora (Marvel) (1993)
Daredevil vs. Vapora is a one shot comic about the dangers of using gasoline as a cleaning agent, represented by a demonic entity made out of gasoline vapor.
After an apartment is burned down due to an accident involving a tenant removing tile grout using gasoline (and a little girl is badly burned and nearly killed in the process) Matt Murdock takes the case to defend the landlord (who is being accused of arson), when investigating the burned out apartment Murdock becomes aware of a strange gaseous entity that only he can apparently sense, whom he dubs "Vapora." There are several more incidents of Vapora showing up at the sites of people being careless while using gasoline to clean things and causing fires, and when it tries to hurt another child, Daredevil smothers the creature with a fire extinguisher. The comic ends bittersweetly; the Landlord is cleared of charges, the little girl from the beginning will pull through (But the recovery will be long and hard) and Vapora has been seemingly defeated…. but there's always a chance she will return.
So the big thing of course is Vapora herself. They never really explain what she is or where she comes from except that she's "cut from the patterns of humanity." Which doesn't make much sense in the context of Marvel comics. But through the lens of the Magnus Archives, its pretty clear Vapora is a Monster spawned by the Desolation. Also She's depicted as being basically mindless, communicating through rambling run on sentences of words that vaguely run together, which also kind of fits the nature of the dread powers.
Linkara of Atop the fourth wall gave this one a read many years ago, he was mainly dumbstruck by the idea of so many people just using Gasoline as a cleaning agent (Which yeah it can be used for that, but using Gasoline for that purpose has really fallen out of favor and I don't think it was still being done in the 90's) and the overall goofiness of the concept. But again, I imagine the little girl from the end would at one point probably recount this encounter to the Magnus Institute.
Stadium Fire (Consumer And Safety Institute) (1999)
…I don't want to just copy and paste the Desolation film propaganda for this one, so I'll just say this: What makes this one stand out to me is that it uses real footage from the Bradford City fire, which claimed the lives of 56 people and injured at least 265.
Desolation-Aligned PIFs, Round 2 Bout 3
Daredevil Vs Vapora (Marvel) (1993)
Stadium Fire (Consumer And Safety Institute) (1999)
Voting ended onJun 9
