This book was pretty awesome. First off, it uses an unusual page size format, basically a widescreen. The artist excels at cityscapes, and thus the city of Verona, as depicted in the future with these beautiful wide vistas as incredible computer-assisted art, is a central character and works very very well. I’d buy the book for the cityscapes alone.

The story is of course good ole Bill Shakespeare’s classic, retold in a future Earth where the city of Verona dominates the world due to its superior military, led by the Montague family who developed bio-cybernetics (think cyborg) and the Capulets who developed bio-engineering (think Captain America supersoldier). But those two families have developed a gang-like rivalry that threatens Verona.

The art for Juliet is stunning. She is beautiful, young, and utterly believable, and contrasts with the rest of the cast, mostly male.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book, but I did have a few quibbles. The action scenes had poor choreography, they looked great, you knew a fight was happening, but you couldn’t really follow the details of the fight. The author also took some liberties with how people die in the story that I thought undercut a little how Romeo’s actions are driven by his passion for Juliet.

Recommended.