Two teenage geeks break into their school cafeteria brandishing guns. Several people die, some suffer mental instability afterwards, one of the perperators collapses and the surviving one is sentenced to 50 years of hard time. In jail however, a different story of him unwinds.

Why did a harmless, 'nice boy' like him end up at the wrong end of a gun in a high school shootout? How did his companion really die? Why does he seem to be a trouble-magnet even in jail? And how does he stay alive, and what's more unblemished throughout? The answer lies with a forgotten Sumerian war goddess.

Full of eye-poppingly colourful characters, sublime plot twists and edge-of-seat action, the 50 years are gone you know it. Ethan's story is the kind of story that makes comics/graphic novels take literature a few notches higher.