Biblical immortal Lazarus in the future fighting demons.

Take a 20 grams of the good book, mix with a dystopian future city, add in motorbikes, demons and action, and finally sprinkle with an immortal hero and you get the concoction that is Lazarus.

The first bite tastes strange and unusual, being derived from the biblical origin of Lazarus, it has a unfamiliar flavour, but you're carried along for now by the epic lines and tasty artwork.

Then you are transported a couple of thousand years into the future. You're now straight into the action and, man, it tastes good. It's pretty non-stop from there, a mix of future vehicles, demons and the central character, doing his action stuff.

The artwork is the seasoning on the mix, really. It's really nice, although, at times a little clunky, but it does a great job of telling this epic, gory, heavily juxtaposed tale.

Gaultier has done a good job on his comic. It's great fun, if a little silly (the character Lazarus? - why not go the go the whole hog and bring in the Jesus and God crime fighting duo?), but on the whole it works really well. It's gripping stuff.

Like any great recipe, it's the sum of its parts. Fortunately, those parts are succulent, well chosen and, above all, tasty.

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