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It's 2007. The Twin Towers are still standing. Thanks to nuclear fires that blazed in 1973, 95 percent of the United States population was killed. A massive nuclear war between the USA and the USSR managed to destroy most of the world as we know it, leaving Africa - namely Sudan - untouched by the devastation.

Diving head first into this alternate reality, we get a small peak of the immense wealth now occupied by one of the most decimated regions of our own reality. Sudanese officials have gone out of their way to contact Zero, a man uniquely adept at traversing the dangerous rubble of Manhattan. They want to retrieve a suitcase full of material traded to them by the struggling US that was stolen from a downed Black Hawk helicopter in one of Manhattan's most violent locations.

This issue is particularly engrossing because we learn a great amount about the personal motivations and turmoil of Zero. He's an interesting character study in a fascinating world. By taking the story international in scope, writer Arvid Nelson, artist Matt Camp, and colorist Dave Stewart up the quality ten-fold in Zero Killer #3.

I suggest you check out ZeroKiller.com because understanding the troubled world of this comic book will be a gateway drug into getting addicted to this series.