written by Mike Carey
art by Elena Casagrande
Rather rapidly, Leo Winters has incrementally compromised himself, often under threat, so that he now accompanies a particularly unsavory band of super-powered thugs with obnoxious senses of entitlement and little regard for human life. Each step has proved larger than he could anticipate until he's so far down the rabbit hole he's already having difficulty recognizing himself. As Christine (a.k.a. Just a Feeling) explains it, Leo is literally fighting for his identity. Having let Requiem into his head, he now must battle it out to see who can stay, and there's little optimism for him.

Suicide Risk has propelled its characters into a bleak world of political and violent conquest, a world littered with amoral and self-interested super-powered invaders. But at its center, the mysterious family drama orbiting the Winters household remains it's primary investment. As Leo gets dragged—sometimes, it seems, willingly—further and further from home, so much so that he now can't imagine returning, his daughter, whose own powers began manifesting as his did and whose destiny would seem to be intertwined with his own, is quietly showing the most impressive and most powerful abilities of all. She has, however unwittingly, opened a portal into another world. Though we see her little, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of her transformation is that neither she nor Just a Feeling has mentioned anything of another personality in her head. Tracey Elizabeth Winters is, by all evidence, just herself, herself with extraordinary powers.
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