It's the end of the world as we know it.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have returned to Earth.

Scratch that. Make that three. The fourth seems to have already gotten started.

That's what's happening in Jonathan Hickman's (Manhattan Projects) new monthly series, East of West. At 4 issues in, it's tale of an otherworldly Earth is as ambitious as it is intriguing. It's a big story with a big cast that is only slowly starting to piece together the events that catalyzed the End.