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A crazy bloodbath dystopian horror story (really just a slim short story) most sane people would not want to read. Originally published in 1990, re-released by Dark Horse for your viewing "pleasure." But it has some amazing (and at the same time horrific, be warned) intricate art work by Geoff Darrow, which Chad correctly identifies with the maddening Where's Waldo? series. That detailed. But with lots more blood.

Kind of reminds me of the Garth Ennis (and Alan Moore, and others) Crossed series, which is like these guys saying, oh, you think your little hopeful story is dystopian? You call THAT post-apocalyptic?! Oh, it's going to be worse than you can even imagine; here, look at this!

I read this because I just re-viewed Blade Runner and re-read Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which involves a human, Rick Deckard, "retiring" androids. This story by Miller bears some resemblance to Dick's story, with, let's say, less philosophical reflection and, ala Crossed, more carnage and depravity for depravity's sake. A futuristic Lord of the Flies with adults and robots. In Gard Boiled (a kind of reference to hard-boiled investigators and hopeless noir stories) Carl Seltz is an an "insurance investigator" and Nixon is a psychopathic tax collector killing robots for no obvious reason, to tell you the truth. Just so Darrow can draw it and Dave Stewart can use all that red color. Could he draw a kitten story as well? It's hard to imagine he could draw a kitten without slaughtering it, really.

Still, the main reason to look at this is to examine the artwork, and then only if you have a strong stomach. The artwork is, as Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ reviewer Eisnein says, 5 stars, if you can separate the content from the form somehow. I can't, exactly, but I'll split the difference and call it 3.5.