East of West #1

The Four Horseman are always depicted as a solid team, metaphorical forces that always seem eye to eye. What if they didn't, though? What if the rest decided that Something needed to be done about one of their own? It's a fairly unique idea, and one that Jonathan Hickman is able to build a story out of that can only be described as a “rippin' yarn”.

Something I've noticed in a lot of Hickman's work is that he doesn't really care for exposition - you're dropped into a story and he assumes you'll be able to follow along until everything makes sense. That works well in his capes books, because they take place in worlds that readers are already familiar with. Here it's a little unsettling, because there's so much that we don't know about. I'm sure eventually that unsettled feeling will go away, but for now it's something to be aware of.

Violent, gross. Not into it.