If you like your graphic novels packed with dramatic car chases, cartoonish villains, gunfights, and fiery explosions, you'll probably like Death or Glory. Unfortunately, that's about all it has going for it. The plot is, quite frankly, absurd. What starts off with a simple, if dangerous, idea for protagonist Glory to steal enough money to get her dying father a liver transplant quickly boils into just plain over-the-top. The very first attempt at a heist gets her on the wrong side of a human trafficking ring, and it eventually devolves into a cross-country chase with Glory and two trafficking victims she picked up along the way being pursued by Glory's ex-husband (definitely a slimy weasel, but very unclear about whether he's evil to the bone, in over his head, or a sucker with anger issues), a viciously sadistic cop with unclear allegiances, some guy (or possibly multiple similarly-dressed guys) in a Mexican wrestling mask who are somehow involved in the trafficking, a guy with a liquid nitrogen gun who is also somehow involved in the trafficking, and a group of people from a different trafficking ring doing a whole different kind of trafficking. It's gruesome, it's gory, it's frankly confusing in a lot of places, tons of people die brutally and painfully, and I can't help thinking of how this is an absurd amount of death and destruction to get one old guy an organ transplant. I mean, sure, it's great to try to take down a trafficking ring, but Glory's not even trying to do that - any harm to the trafficking operation is incidental, just collateral damage in Glory's quest to get her father a new liver. And that collateral damage also includes a lot of innocent people. The stakes just seem way too low for all this death and injury. If it was the fate of the world or something, it might seem more reasonable. But the stakes are just one guy dying, and even if you exclude the traffickers' deaths from the tally, at least 50 innocent people died along the way. Perhaps that just illustrates Glory's morally grey nature, being willing to sacrifice so many strangers to save one person she loves. But it just seems too much for me.