How'd it get burned how'd it get burned howditgetburned?! In my early teens I thought he was one of the best actors ever...maybe I shouldn't admit that.

Yeah, the tone shift bugged me too - "we're so realistic, we have our hero get knifed and run over his first time out!" to "our ineffectual hero is suddenly Rambo who can use a jetpack and gatling guns (without going deaf or suffering the laws of physics) to kill many, many people!" It's got Transformer's syndrome - too unthinkingly juvenile for anyone over 14, but too gory and harsh for that demographic at the same time.

So the comic explores the shift with the male protagonist, but the young girl gets no inner life adjusting to the killing? Hurm.