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  • When a Latverian freighter crashed, Penance took out all the foreign nationals by himself, but made sure to let one escape home to announce that Penance is coming.

    Penance: Relentless #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Penance is what sinners do to make up for their sins and part of that is accepting their just punishment.

    Soul Men 2010

  • Studying both the life and times of the Marquis De Sade (in an attempt to understand his new powers) and the entirety of the Thunderbolts database (in an attempt to do … something else) Penance is now on the run.

    Penance: Relentless #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Penance is what sinners do to make up for their sins and part of that is accepting their just punishment.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

  • Baptism, next to the Sacrament of Penance, is one of three manners by which one may be purified of sins (the third being a perfect Act of Contrition).

    Archive 2006-01-01 Francis 2006

  • Baptism, next to the Sacrament of Penance, is one of three manners by which one may be purified of sins (the third being a perfect Act of Contrition).

    Leavetaking of the Feast of the Theophany Francis 2006

  • When Norman snarks that if he’d been able to restrain Penance like the other inmates, he’d still be here, and Osborn faces him down.

    Penance: Relentless #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • I have to wonder...was the kid talking about a Penance service, which is legitimate as it involves individual confession, or was he talking about having to go to an illicit "General Absolution" service which some people call Penance services, which muddies the waters?

    Mini Confessions Michelle 2008

  • The public members of the team - Songbird, Moonstone, Radioactive Man, Penance aka Dark Speedball, Venom, and The Swordsman - confront their prey in a parking lot in Cleveland, Ohio.

    THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007 David Campbell 2007

  • The public members of the team - Songbird, Moonstone, Radioactive Man, Penance aka Dark Speedball, Venom, and The Swordsman - confront their prey in a parking lot in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Archive 2007-03-01 David Campbell 2007

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