 Following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2016, "Salon" writer Mark Peters called the series "newly relevant" and compared Trump to the Carlyle family.In an in-depth review of the series for the "Los Angeles Review of Books" in 2017, Evan McGarvey praised the research and thought that went into "Lazarus", but expressed concern that the visual requirements of the art conflicted with the political themes.He specifically noted the ruling families and their soldiers "simply look cooler" than the waste with whom the audience is meant to identify, and concluded that this dissonance may skew the real message Rucka and Lark want to send.