Ellis's updating of the Wildstorm universe distils it all down to two powerful competing factions held in check by treaty and mutually assured destruction, one smaller faction with a public corporate face and a hidden secret ops alien-conspiracy face, and some rogue players sensing the outline of the threat. IO and Skywatch shadow box while the Wild CAT throw spanners in various works, and Jenny Sparks meets The Doctor. Told with ruthless precision, it's a widescreen cutting-edge epic of hi-tech, low morals, aliens among us, super powers, genetic experiments on the loose and flying saucers versus hidden science cities.