Rucka and Lark's all-too-timely dystopian visions of a 1% world ruled by a tiny elite of all-powerful families, with the rest of the world's population divided into serfs and waste, continues. Forever Carlyle is her family's Lazarus, a genetically engineered and trained since childhood to be enforcer, bodyguard, soldier, spy and assassin. Her loyalty to her family is unswerving, but someone is trying to undermine it. The Barret family are waste, surviving as hardscrabble farmers under swingeing debt until their home is destroyed by flood, leaving them with a grueling journey in the slim hopes of getting selected for service with the Carlyles. Meanwhile a terrorist groups is planning to strike at the heart of the family.

Bleak, dark sci fi of a future feudal world order, Rucka knows how to tighten the suspense and wrench the heart and channel the fear and outrage while Lark's art is just amazing, dark muted noirish colours and scenes of personal drama as riveting as the balletic actions scenes.