Changing Lives
Starting out to read this issue, I got the impression from the cover that this has been done before, with the issue of drugs coming up once again. In reality though, this issue surprised me with the ingenuity that it used with this concept, not really focusing on drugs at all except in passing. It really focuses more on the character on the front cover, a man simply know as Trader who finds whatever surplus he can and then sells it or trades it. As it turns out this has some unforeseen effects which kind of caught me off guard. Once again Chuck Dixon excels at writing an issue of this series, which loses a bit of the first hand testimonial type of story telling, but still manages to make it point.