Alex Sarll's Reviews > Dead Eyes, Volume 1

A legendary masked urban bandit comes out of retirement; storywise it's nothing new, but the art is by John McCrea so it sure is purdy, in a scuffed-up, bloody sense of the word. Aside from the occasional muttering about young people and their screens which I'm coming to recognise as the hallmark of Duggan's creator-owned stuff, its main thematic depth comes with the reminder of how utterly horrific American healthcare is; much like Breaking Bad, these are crimes motivated by massive hospital bills, which we're further reminded here are sneakily inflated like unfettered capitalism always will. Procedures are charged for but never received; restaurant prices are charged for prison-quality food. For a British reader, the main impact is thus to remind us that the NHS really was nice while it lasted.

(Edelweiss ARC)