La terra dei figli

This might indeed be a 5 star book, but it is, in the tradition of McCarthy's The Road, Lemire's Sweet Tooth an absolutely brutal dystopian graphic novel that features an ailing father and two surviving sons. The father keeps a journal, but the boys can't read. Survival is almost secondary for one b Leggi tutto

Съжалявам, но в тази визуална история липсва точно историята. Оставена без текст, може би щеше да успее да разкаже повече? Като почитател на европейския комикс определено съм разочарован, очаквах много повече… Leggi tutto

Bitter sweat and slightly graphic. ;)

A mean and nasty post-apocalyptic tale about unlikeable people killing and dying. There's some stuff in here about a son trying to get to know his emotionally distant father, but not enough to make it interesting for me. Read Cormac McCarthy's The Road for a better story of a father and son survivin Leggi tutto

In some ways, Land Of The Sons is The Road in comics form. It's missing McCarthy's lovely bleak writing but has in its place Gipi's lovely bleak writing-with-pictures. In some ways, this post-apocalyptic story is like all the other post-apocalyptic stories and we know what to expect. Societal collaps Leggi tutto