Rating: 
Summary: Thoughtful, complex action
Review: This story comes across much better than the parts would suggest. It has elements of fantasy, history, and science fiction woven together. It's an eco-catastrophic world with clean, livable enclaves for the few. It has demons, heroes, and some who tried and failed. A lesser writer would have made those parts sound like a formula: "Attach Hero (a) to Villain (b), then connect the Mysterious Source of Vast Power (c)."
The artwork is strong, but mostly not the kind I'll remember in a week. Well, there is that four-page foldout spread at the end. The rest is expressive, varied, and communicative, but greatness requires more.
Other comics have a more thoughtful pace, but this at-a-run style works too. It switches often between scenes, times, and levels of awareness. This still leaves time for multiple reversals in the marriage of security chief to science chief, but the human relationships aren't very subtle or central to the story.
Frank Miller is brilliant, and this proves it again. The style is very different from the choppy chiaroscuro of "Sin City", but works for this piece. I'll keep buying Miller's work.
//wiredweird
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