So I went back through and read the full series up to current (the most recent issue being #7). Going back through, there were a number of things I didn't catch, or for some reason didn't piece together the first time I read it. One of the things that struck me was how awesome this series is. Milligan's writing on this is fantastic, and all of the characters are extremely interesting. So what is this book? Well, it turns out that the Nazis had started a program to generate a superhuman. And when Berlin is invaded by the Allied forces, one of those German scientists surrenders over to the Americans... with the fetus that would become that superhuman. The Russians take the technology. And during the cold war, both developed their own superhumans, but neither pulled the trigger... until one of the Russian "dolls" is awakened in the middle of a war similar to the current Iraq situation in the fictional country of Talibstan. The US ends up looking for this superman that they once had... and find out that someone reprogrammed him to be more liberal leaning, and to have no knowledge of what he was created for. All he wants to do is run his bar, and what he ends up doing is slowly become the most reluctant hero of all, the war machine who has been reprogrammed to hate what he was created for. The artwork in this works extremely well for the mood. The pencils are somewhere between sketchy and photo-realistic, and the coloration and shading use flat, bold tones, creating an eerie sort of feel. It affects the mood in all the ways that coloring should in a well told story.
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