i read this comic for the first time at just about the perfect time in my life. i was 19, reading a lot of Deadline (which first serialised the story), and flapping around looking for a job while re-sitting one of my a-levels.The story features a group of teenagers contemplating their future in the drowzy months of summer following the end of a-levels. they bum around, have picnics, flirt and do up an old venue as a youth club while gently considering their futures.seems idylic? it is. except there is a dark underside lurking, waiting to pounce on the teens. roger booth, who dropped out and vanished the year before chasing a girl to america, is hunted by some dodgy geezers. will the teens find him first? and do any of them forsee the tradgedy about to befall them.this title avoids the histrionic tone of american coming-of-age stories. it is much more true to life because at that age few of us have a strong picture of our futures. we are just glad to be out of school.the black and white artwork (and i mean black and white - there are no greys in this comic) helps to reinforce the washed out feeling of this story by refusing to dramatise itself and also warning us of the impending disaster.this is firmly within the adult market - the one that has stories of real maturity, not the one focused on gore-porn. if you are the kind of reader who likes titles such as concrete then this is for you