One of the densest, most thoughtful superhero books out there. It plays with the lines between cartoony superhero and all too real impact in beautiful fashion, thinking about how people who kill (ninjas) think about people who don't (superheros), how death isn't harmless and how carefully people have to manage attraction and attention between friends and lovers, and how even cosmic villains occasionally want to kick back, watch a cute girl, and pretend that they're not driven by a cosmic imperative to destroy the world and everything in it.