There's a sly reference to the legalisation of cannabis where Kate gets a villain arrested for hit and run rather than his greenhouse full of weed.

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Instead of Russian's in tracksuits, Kate's thug nemeses wear bell boy uniforms. I'm never sure if this is meant to be symbolic or literal.

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The thrust of the storyline mixes a down and out in LA storyline with a continuation of the Madame Masque storyline from Volume 1.

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This is the Kate Bishop solo book and is based in LA rather than New York. It lacks some of the experimentation of Volume 2, using a different artist in the form of Annie Wu but retaining writer Matt Fraction's stylistic ticks.