The issue is expertly paced lays a good bit of groundwork for what's to come all while giving readers just enough of what came before to get them back into the action. It's a nearly perfect issue of the series. Read Full Review

A welcome return of one of the best series presently on the stands or anywhere else. Maika and her companions awaken after being gone from their world for about a year to find that the Lord Doctor has unleashed a war of annihilation on the world using Zinn. There is a lot of catching up to do and the reader is plunged right back into the complexity of the universe that Liu has built. It is an immersive and almost overwhelming experience but foreshadows a truly epic story to come. As usual, the Doctor seems five steps ahead of everyone. Maika rediscovers an old friend she has not seen since her childhood. The cats who came back from the prison world of the old gods are discovering for themselves how primitive their world has become. Poignantly, Maika continues to talk in her head to her lost love, Tuya, even as she plans to murder her former lover and betrayer for what she has done. The art, as always, is breathtaking. A truly phenomenal opening chapter in another epic story arc. more