While robots, half-brains, and bloodmen walk the city streets, side-by-side, searching for order and meaning in a broken world, a new kind of entity prowls in the darkness and embraces the chaos with open arms. The Gutter Punks, once an ordinary street gang from Los Angeles, California, now the rulers of a truly terrifying underground kingdom called The Shadowlands. Their genetically modified leaders, spliced with animal DNA, harness the natural and supernatural forces of this planet and fight to overthrow the illegitimate gods that reign.