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2. Lazarus

For: Your Friend Who’s Still Waiting for a New Song of Ice And Fire Book

Part of the skill needed to recommend stuff is to select books that aren’t EXACTLY like the stuff the person already loves. When your friend comes to you looking for a comic she’ll enjoy, you’ll want to give her something that’ll broaden her horizons a tad.

So it’s Lazarus for those Game of Thrones nerds – those GOT-heads, if you will. The book focuses on a group of rich families who divide up the globe following an apparent apocalypse. They feud, they bicker, they fight.

But, unlike the Starks and the Lannisters, all of these families are dumpy rich people who don’t actually know how to fight. So each family has a Lazarus, an individual who was augmented using genetics or cybernetics or what have you, who dishes out all their combat for them. The book is centered on the life of Forever Carlyle, the Carlyle family’s Lazarus.

Rucka and Lark are badass storytellers through and through, and this is some of their best work. It has all of GOT’s fun politics, but twice the sword vs. gun fights.