APOCALYPSE NERD TP
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Published by Dark Horse Comics in 2008.
Size: 118 Pages
Price: 13.95 USD.
It's a thin book - it has only six chapters, and it is black and white in the printing sense - it is printed using black, white and shades of gray.
It's smaller in size than regular TPs and the paper of the cover is a bit rough which is weird (like really smooth sand paper).
It's black and white but the coloring is good enough to make it easy to read - the color of the word balloons changes between white and gray depending on the background color they are drawn on, and the art isn't crazy detailed so it doesn't cause a problem.
Also the art style is a cartooning style that sometimes resembles old Mickey Mouse cartoons or Fleischer cartoons, meaning it's not very life like (for example there is a character with glasses and sometimes his eyes aren't visible through them - like in Box Office Poison).
That art style combined with the story and the forward makes a strange combination and a strange choice.
In the forward the creator tells us why he started making this comic - in 2003 when the US only payed attention to Iraq, the creator heard in the radio that North Korea stated that it's in their power to drop a nuclear bomb on Seattle.
He found this alarming since the US didn't pay attention to that statement and because he lives in Seattle so he decided to Imagine what it would be like if it happened and try to make it realistic.
The comic starts with two friends - Gordo (a more brawny guy) and Perry (a more nerdy guy) when they hear in the radio an atomic bomb was dropped on Seattle and slowly they need to piece together what happened in different parts of Seattle and survive (they were far enough in the mountains to not get effected).
Of course they grow tired of one another and meet different people throughout the book and there is sexual content and violence but it's cartoonish (a lot of people get shot in the head), and although the forward states this is meant as a serious book it is humorous and the humor is weird - sometimes I laughed, sometimes I didn't.
Also it's a book about surviving after an atomic bomb so there isn't much info on the surrounding areas - it's not Y: the last man - but you get little glimpses throughout the book.
The ending of the book is weird and a little hard to swallow - there is some sort of ending but you're not spoon fed it and the ending is the finding of a norm in this place after a nuclear disaster (but the event isn't over yet).
The combination of the art style and the forward and all the violence and the story and the humor that are mingled together are a strange combination - sometimes too strange for me, and the open ending is a bit of a let down.
And although it says in the forward this a serious look at a scenario like that, there are the regular B movie plots - like a few women joining to create an all women camp...
Also adding to the cartoonish look of the book are the word balloons - if someone has let's say two word balloons that are joined together, instead of adding a tail to the first one a tail is added to each one of the joined balloons (when the art allows it - the same thing with the thought balloons).
Also it sometimes uses an old technique that I remember seeing in old Looney Tunes cartoons - the broken straight line from a characters' eyes to the object he is looking at.
Art: 3 - Good
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