My friends got me involved in this story, and I am SO glad they did!
The artwork is astounding - and the story is so compelling and so gripping it's immediately accessible. You feel like you're in the world Ashley Cope has created, and despite the fear and dangers, it's someplace you want to be. Her characters are well-drawn, each an extraordinary individual -- you can love them, fear them, and hate them all at once. Ms. Cope is quite adept and bending the viewpoint so you can simultaneously feel sympathy for all sides in the equation (and, at this point in the story, it's getting very hard to see who is right, who is wrong, and whether in fact there even is a right or wrong!).
This is a graphic novel born from a web comic - definitely worth reading weekly, if you can stand the cliffhangers! Truly extraordinary work.