With Mercury Heat, Kieron Gillen blasts a hole into the realm of epic science fiction - and what a hole it is! As our guide, he takes us to Mercury, the slowly rotating planet where it’s possible to escape the sunrise and the unbearable heat that the sun brings. Right here, where humanity has come to satiate the insatiable energy hunger of Earth, lies the current frontier of civilization - and it is permeable. Gillen (among others, Modded, Once and Future) presents a gritty world filled with men and women who strike first and usually ask no questions afterward. Luiza is one of them: a police officer who is a bit too aggressive to work in her dream job on Earth. So she brings her inner fire to Mercury. In the world of Mercury Heat, people are defined and categorized by their genetic traits, and personalities are classified. Everyone is assigned a job and a role. However, the troublemakers seem to all end up on Mercury - where Luiza has to take care of them. In this volume, Luiza faces a murderous and raping mob that could have sprung straight from a Crossed comic. But Crossed is merely a fiction in the Mercury Heat world... a fairy tale from a long-ago century. Or is it? This volume contains US issues Mercury Heat 7-12.