Lazarus vol. 1

Government has collapsed, and a few ruling Families now control what is left of the world's resources. House Carlyle keeps its holdings with a Lazarus: Forever Carlyle, an augmented soldier engineered to heal from nearly any wound. She is sworn to defend the Carlyle estate against rival Families and against the "Waste", the desperate people who live outside the walls.

The volume opens with what looks like a routine defense of the estate. It spirals into betrayal from within. Secrets held inside the Carlyle family start to threaten the very things Forever has been raised to protect.

This is a dystopian science fiction comic by writer Greg Rucka and artist Michael Lark. It collects the first four issues of the series along with the short "Family: Prelude". Violence is hard-edged, and the politics turn on class division and who owns what.

Between the fights, the book asks a slower, more psychological question. Forever's loyalty was bought with engineered obedience, and the family that commands her calls those commands love. How far she will go for them is what the story turns on.