I asked the owner of my local comics shop what he was most excited about lately, and this is the book he put into my hands. I had never heard of the character before, and had never read anything by this author. But I flipped through it while he gave me a passionate description. I ended up buying it, partly because of the absolute mastery of the page layouts. Every single page is done in a 9 panel grid, to stunning effect. The fight scenes are exciting, the jokes are perfectly timed and the emotional moments are very powerful- effects often achieved by the use of a variety of layouts. I can't even imagine the amount of communication that must have gone on between this writer/artist team. The story focuses on Scott Free, one of the New Gods from New Genesis. There's a short prequel which explains his origins- he was given away as a baby by his father to secure a peace treaty between two warring worlds. His childhood was a series of unending tortures. But now he is an adult, living on Earth, happily married and working in entertainment as an escape artist. At the opening of this book, he has just survived an attempted suicide. Then he is called back to New Genesis and the war. This book is evenly divided between Scott and his wife Barda's home life on Earth and their insane life as nearly invulnerable killing machines in the New Gods war against Darkseid. Both parts are treated with equal seriousness, and the result is a story unlike any I have read in superheroes before.