LIBRARY JOURNAL -- Cody Blue is a
criminal mastermind whose latest scheme-hiring all of the most effective members
of the most successful criminal gangs across the galaxy to assist her in a
series of heists-seems foolproof, until they betray her and leave her for dead.
Thena Khole is a vicious hand-to-hand fighter smitten with a con man named Viggo
Lust, with whom she pulls a series of schemes until she's abandoned and
arrested. When both women are sentenced to serve in a penal colony inside a
100-mile-long crustacean drifting through space, they become fast friends,
quickly escape, and set out for vengeance. Millar (<i>Sharkey the Bounty
Hunter</i>) has built his career on making simple, tried-and-true-premises seem
fresh and fun, and illustrator Scalera (<i>Black Science. </i>Vol. 9:<i> No
Authority but Yours</i>) proves an excellent collaborator, as the two set a
classic crime plot in an intergalactic society heavily influenced by the fashion
and culture of Earth in the 1980s.<br />VERDICT
Watching Cody and Thena wreak havoc is a total blast in this fast-paced, Day-Glo
romp.<br /><br /><br />