The artwork is very beautiful, and really seems to evoke that gritty feeling. I read the book loooong ago, but even with that to kind of help, I felt pretty confused - lots of names that didn’t need to be spelled the way they were (petty pet peeve there). I had a lot of qualms with the book but I remember liking a lot of the character development and being impressed that that could happen with such a large cast, but the graphic novel does not lend itself much getting to know the characters for me. So just very little payoff for me for having to endure the gore and sex.