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A brooding young man leans against a beat-up scooter against a red-drenched urban backdrop crowded with figures, perfectly capturing the mod-inflected, street-level energy of Dead Enders. Ed Brubaker and Warren Pleece's Vertigo series earns its Metro News comparison to "Quadrophenia, Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting" right there on the cover, with Philip Bond's linework setting a tone that's tough, stylish, and quietly tense. Collected here under the title "The Morning After," this 2012 DC/Vertigo edition is a compelling entry point into one of the imprint's more distinctive urban dramas.