The Eisner Award-winning team of LARK and RUCKA return with the first story arc in the final series about Forever Carlyle!In a neo-feudalist world ruled by the ultra-wealthy Families, each has a Lazarus, raised and trained to be the instrument of that Family's will.Finally free of her father's control, Forever is going to burn it all down.Collects Fallen #1-6
Greg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
Casey and Michael are both regular characters now, for better or for worse. The ways the family members are so different than vol. 1 and in some ways still the same is very interesting. I love the little kid.
Forever is on the run and her vengeful family is after her. As she tries to find safe passage to the lands not under control of any of the families lots of people die left and right, but she has no option if she wants to save her little sister. Carlyle is not to give up so he uses his very potent knowledge of bio engineering to restart his own Lazarus, because who actually can stop him from manipulating everyone around him? For some reason, nobody is capable of getting the world rid of this evil doer.
Art as always is top notch, only thing that ruined experience for me is that only Canadians can enjoy this book fully (and no, I have no grudge with Canadiens ;)). For others like me, thankfully art was pretty much clear so I could figure out what was going on :) And no!..... no way I could decipher anything by looking at the addendum..... These are not notes or index people but bloody conversation! Whoever came up with this idea is nuts.
All in all good volume, but introductory one, things are just heating up in here.
Recommended to fans of dystopian future and of course fans of the series.
Another good installment. Infinity discovers a strange (but useful) new skill. Forever’s history/experience (most of her life under complete control of the family) is contrasted with Infinity’s (learning and experiencing things her older sister never has).