From the opening issue I remember reading hunched over my computer five years ago, the series four or more years defunct already, this has been my absolute favorite serial comic. Living in a future that is a caricature of the present, and that has only grown more gut wrenchingly accurate since these issues were first published, our hero Spider Jerusalem attacks the evils of his world with naught but keyboard, camera glasses, his lovely assistant, and a vast arsenal of mind altering chemicals. Its the kind of antics real life heroism is made of, the stuff you want your journalists out doing, and as our world's news cycle has become more and more white washed and vapid, Spider has become the only comic book hero that has any real need to exist in real life. He transcends the boundaries of the comic book as a fantasy place where fantasy people solve fantasy problems in fantasy ways, by fighting metaphors for our problems in a real way, the way real people can and should be fighting them. Takes all the lessons the medium gained from the graphic novel form and creates a serial that cuts to the bone nearly every issue.

Aside from praise for the series, the volume itself arrived well bound and vibrantly printed.