Jeff Lemire (Descender, Green Arrow) continues his vivid exploration of kindness and cruelty in a post-apocalyptic world.
The human race has reached its darkest hour. In the seven years since the Affliction first appeared, billions have died. All the children born since the plague are a strange new race of animal-human hybrids.
One of the few remaining humans, a drifter named Jepperd, has formed a bond with one such child, a sweet deer-like boy called Gus. But even among the hybrid children, Gus...