I've read the first three of these. They are full of incident, suspense, action and despair. They are very dark - lots of blood, death and destruction. The main characters are agonised and full of self-reproach, with Silver-Surfer syndrome piled on high. Good people are mass killers, and evil mass-killers are really good people if only you look at it right.

It's also grim. If there were any jokes, they passed me by. I needed to read some Sandman Slim after this.