IMAGE COMICS
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Steve Skroce
ARTIST: Steve Skroce
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Fonografiks
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (February 2021)
Rated M / Mature
Post Americana is a six-issue miniseries written and drawn by Steve Skroce and published by Image Comics. Post Americana is set in a dystopian future and focuses on two rebels' attempt to save an area called the “Wasteland” from a rogue President of the United States. Colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Fonografiks complete Post Americana's creative team.
Post Americana has two settings. The first is “The Bubble,” an installation inside the Cheyenne Mountains that is the most sophisticated super-bunker in the world. Inside, Nathaniel Hawksworthe, the new President of the United States, plans to use the bunker's resources to build the “New America” by basically paving over the second setting, the “Wasteland.” Determined to stop Hawksworthe are Mike, a hapless rebel, and Carolyn, a deadly Wasteland girl, who is already hellbent on revenge against the denizens of the Bubble. But Carolyn and Mike will have to survive the Wasteland in order to save the Wasteland.
As Post Americana #3 opens, after surviving “The Followers of the Path,” cannibal blood cult, Caroline and Mike are looking for a safe place. Perhaps, they have found it in the gilded cage of Caroline's surrogate fathers, Eddy and Gene. Plus, we learn the history of Caroline, how she meet Eddy and Gene, and why she seeks to destroy the Bubble. Mike also reveals his history as a rebel and what happened to the world at the end of the 23rd century that led to the creation to the Bubble. Why and how did the rich take over?
THE LOWDOWN: As I wrote in my review of Post Americana #1, I am a fan of writer-artist Steve Skroce's mainstream comics work, especially “Blood Debt” (May 2000 to August 2000), a four-issue story arc he produced for the original Wolverine ongoing comic book series (the one that began in 1988). In my review of Post Americana #2, I expressed joy that Skroce gave readers the fun of a cannibal holocaust-shindig.
Post Americana #3 is the series' most revealing issue yet. I'll call it the “history issue,” and if you like, back story, dear readers, you will love this third issue, as there is a lot of history and back story … and a rather shocking surprise regarding Caroline.
As usual, Skroce gets excellent assistance in creating this fine edition of his latest comic book. That includes superb coloring from Dave Stewart and story-driving lettering from Fonografiks. I can't wait for the fourth issue.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Steve Skroce's comics and of post-apocalyptic sci-fi will want Post Americana.
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9 out of 10
[This comic book features a four-page sneak preview of the upcoming comic book, Karmen #1, by Guillem March.]
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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