While the embattled Empowered and Sistah Spooky struggle through the high-school hellscape's final, grueling classroom deathtraps, the ruthless ''Game of Blondes'' among Spookys quite literally soulless ex-classmates reaches a crescendo of violence and treachery--and ''levels-up'' the survivors to near-godlike status! Look out, Emp and Spooky! Like, yikes!

* Artist Carla Speed McNeil is the acclaimed creator of Finder and artist of No Mercy, Queen and Country, and many more.