Deadenders
DC/Vertigo.
Stealing
the Sun (1-4; Vertigo: Winter's Edge 3 [Deadenders story only]; w Ed
Brubaker; a Warren Pleece). [From DC Comics: As it
has been in all the outer sectors of New Bedlam since the time of the cataclysm,
life in Sector 5 in merciless. Doomsters wait silently for a barrage of
missiles that many never come. Jack-booted police clamp down on the locals
with an iron grip. Even the drugs that pervade the sector's youth fail to
mask the perpetual gloom that casts its pall over the city. This is the
world of the Deadenders. It's hell on earth—unless you've got friends.]
Old Book of the Week 12/17/03