Ezra is a short, powerful, formerly dead adventuress who borrowed her hair from Red Sonja, her complexion from Lady Death and her attitude from Xena. Her origin, which involves her family's slaughter and her untimely death -- and rebirth -- owes a little to her forebears as well.

The art by Alfonso Ruiz isn't bad, if you like pale-skinned teeny-bopper cheesecake. The story by Sean O'Reilly, however, is pretty awful.

O'Reilly never seems to get a firm grasp on where he's going with this story, which involves thieves and pirates, Egyptian cat people and maybe a goddess. There are magical swords and mystical artifacts, ocean voyages and dank dungeons, tropical jungles and seedy taverns. O'Reilly is dumping every fantasy trope he can think of into this one slim volume, and the resulting mishmash jumps around without clear direction. The plot meanders, but at breakneck pace -- and after a while, you give up trying to figure out the sequence of place and time, and just enjoy the pretty pictures until it's done.