With the devastation that was left upon the last volume’s final pages, here I found myself amid a narrative rebuild; a recalibration that resolves some of the previously burning questions, while laying down new ones that would set the course ahead. Familiar characters are introduced to us seemingly lost, found a new sense of purpose that, once its narrative threads begin to propel forward and slowly converge, restarted the kinetic energy we were familiar with. Reviewing the crumbling world surrounding them, one can be perplexed by the potential for further destruction and decay that can occur under their hands, and somehow the brutality that the author has laid out in his panelling has demonstrated an intensity beyond what has been offered. Humanity's risk of sinking further into the scummy bottom of the moral barrel is a fearful probability -  a true worry that extends beyond the confines of its pages.