Soooo....Rasputin shows up and he's got a conjoined twin that speaks to him through is heart and there's an underground (literally) civilization of Tsarists and Mike has psychedelic sex with one of them and agrees to help them buy a nuke. And then Lenin's corpse talks to him.
I think the thing that's not sitting right about this series is that I don't think it knows the tone it wants to strike, so it strikes a whole bunch of them, but none clearly enough for anything to stand out. So it seems toneless. The art, which is great, does a similar thing, though, as the photorealistic characters are set next to utterly stylized representations. Perhaps this is intentional, the central conceit of the piece being an international conspiracy that is everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing, all at once. Is the text itself mimicking the slipperiness of The Unseen Hand?
You never know.
"You...you don't honestly think you can turn the clock in this country back two hundred years?"
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