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Post Americana #1-7
Post americana
The Bubble, è il super bunker più sofisticato del mondo. È stato costruito per garantire la sopravvivenza del ramo esecutivo del governo americano e dei suoi cittadini più importanti, qualora dovesse accadere l’impensabile. E quando il mondo è andato in pezzi l’élite vi si è rifugiata. 80 anni dopo, uno di loro si è autoproclamato nuovo Presidente degli Stati Uniti. Il suo piano? Soggiogare i sopravvissuti dell’American Wasteland usando le stesse risorse del bunker destinate a ricostruirla. L’unica cosa che si frappone sulla loro strada è una letale ragazza della Zona Contaminata, decisa a vendicarsi.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published December 22, 2021
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January 14, 2023
Los paranoicos tiempos pandémicos escupieron un chingo de historias post apocalípticas, supongo que fueron el desahogo de muchas ideas reprimidas y miedos latentes. La historia post apocalíptica de Skorce, aunque poco interesante en un principio, toma un giro que te mantendrá con ganas de conocer más sobre este ecosistema. El arte está chulo (muy) y las risas no faltan entre cada panel salpicado de tripas, diálogos irónicos y absurda tecnología de guerra.
October 4, 2023
Steve Skroce is a wonderful artist. A nice clear line with tons of detail and dynamism. But his writing still needs some work in my opinion. The characters are pretty shallow and the humour feels jarring.
After an apocalypse, surface America is a wasteland full of cannibals - but also honest people trying to rebuild society. An extremely wealthy society living in a bunker for the past couple hundred years have elected a war-hungry President who wants to carpet bomb all of the surface and rebuild his ideal America. The protagonist is a young saboteur living in the bunker who goes to the surface to warn them. Parts of this comic remind me of Ennis's Crossed series. Later its gets a bit odd with robots that look like superheroes. It kind of reminds me of 8 Billion Genies. There's lots to like here, but the writing feels a bit janky.
After an apocalypse, surface America is a wasteland full of cannibals - but also honest people trying to rebuild society. An extremely wealthy society living in a bunker for the past couple hundred years have elected a war-hungry President who wants to carpet bomb all of the surface and rebuild his ideal America. The protagonist is a young saboteur living in the bunker who goes to the surface to warn them. Parts of this comic remind me of Ennis's Crossed series. Later its gets a bit odd with robots that look like superheroes. It kind of reminds me of 8 Billion Genies. There's lots to like here, but the writing feels a bit janky.
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August 9, 2022If you've ever read, played or watched anything set the best part of a century after the end of the world, you know what to expect here: America is a wasteland in which occasional peaceful settlements are beset by mutants, robots, cannibals, and the militaristic remnants of the pre-apocalyptic government. On top of which, the timeline doesn't make a lick of sense; we're told that the problem is none of America's government proper making it to the amazing hi-tech bunker, only oligarchs, which seemed a plausible enough near-future development, except then it turns out this happened in the 23rd century, when "the scarcity wars were over. Technology and ingenuity had solved most of the world's problems." Something which has presumably been the case for a while by that point, since we're separately told that the presidencies of the Rock and his daughters were largely responsible for solving the world's problems. In which case, surely there wouldn't be any oligarchs anymore? Make your mind up, man! On the plus side: it's Steve Skroce, so it looks absolutely gorgeous (particularly the cutaways of the bunker) and there is a certain wit to the execution, especially when it comes to simple but effective stuff like the animatronic mascot who gets all sweary after sustaining CPU damage. Fundamentally, though, it can't help feeling overfamiliar, especially when another current Image series, Undiscovered Country, is doing the whole apocalyptic Whither America? bit with so much more invention.
February 15, 2026
“Me acabas de joder mi fiesta de folleteo y papeo. Hijo de la gran putaaa”
August 2, 2022
Steve Skroce is an amazing artist. But his writing on this was ok. Too many Deus Ex Machina moments within the series. And the ending was anticlimactic. You want epic Skroce, read Doc Frankenstein
December 30, 2025
I liked it a lot & now I own it. It was the only way I’d ever get to read it & so glad I found it at Mayhem Collectibles in Des Moines— a truly awesome comics/gn emporium.
It’s kooky & gonzo & funny throughout, all at the same time. The hyper-real art took some getting used to for me but it’s visually interesting that way.
Some very funny stuff with the F.F. at the start & Carolyn is a cool badass (love the semi-autonomous limbs…). The co-hero is Mike, a rebel from the Bubble—a hollowed-out mountain bunker where the 1% have been holed up for 80 years & the new president there wants to re-take America in the most zealously violent way possible. Must be stopped. The duo are captured by cannibals along the way & escape, come across Carolyn’s long-lost mom who joins in, then fall into the hands of the president. About to be executed, they’re saved by Night Terror & Donny (a rabid werewolf sidekick who talks like Scooby Doo) and their Carriage of Justice. Mike was in touch with Marcy, the matriarch of Wonder Studios and her gaggle of sentient animatronics including Eggbert & Mr Floppibottoms. NT & Donny are also Wonder properties. Marcy is new person—genetically altered to awesome— and she wants to take over the world for her race with the other embryos at the Bubble. She lured Mike to her with promises of support but just wanted the Death Star plans to make her assault.
It’s kooky & gonzo & funny throughout, all at the same time. The hyper-real art took some getting used to for me but it’s visually interesting that way.
Some very funny stuff with the F.F. at the start & Carolyn is a cool badass (love the semi-autonomous limbs…). The co-hero is Mike, a rebel from the Bubble—a hollowed-out mountain bunker where the 1% have been holed up for 80 years & the new president there wants to re-take America in the most zealously violent way possible. Must be stopped. The duo are captured by cannibals along the way & escape, come across Carolyn’s long-lost mom who joins in, then fall into the hands of the president. About to be executed, they’re saved by Night Terror & Donny (a rabid werewolf sidekick who talks like Scooby Doo) and their Carriage of Justice. Mike was in touch with Marcy, the matriarch of Wonder Studios and her gaggle of sentient animatronics including Eggbert & Mr Floppibottoms. NT & Donny are also Wonder properties. Marcy is new person—genetically altered to awesome— and she wants to take over the world for her race with the other embryos at the Bubble. She lured Mike to her with promises of support but just wanted the Death Star plans to make her assault.
October 24, 2023
Story:
Die Cheyenne-Mountain-Anlage, auch als „Die Blase“ bekannt, ist der modernste Superbunker der ganzen Welt. Er wurde erbaut, um das Überleben der Exekutive der amerikanischen Regierung und der bedeutendsten Bürger zu sichern, falls das Undenkbare geschehen sollte. Als dann die Welt tatsächlich unterging, gelang es der Exekutive nicht mehr, den Bunker lebend zu erreichen, der amerikanischen Bürgerelite jedoch schon. Achtzig Jahre später hat sich einer aus den elitären Reihen dieser Überlebenden zum neuen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten ernannt.
Meinung:
Kam ich anfangs sehr schwer in die Geschichte rein, wurde sie immer faszinierender und zog mich vollkommen rein.
Ein schöner postapokalyptischer Ausflug durch die Ruinen Amerikas. Wir bekommen ein verstörendes Bild der nächsten Etappen eines Landes und beleuchtet gleichzeitig alle Probleme, die derzeit übersehen werden. Die Ereignisse, die hierhergeführt haben, sind nicht vollständig erklärt, aber die Brutalität ihrer Auswirkungen ist deutlich zu erkennen. Steve Skroce hat mit Post Americana ein ausgezeichnetes Buch mit einer interessanten Geschichte erschaffen und seine Zeichnung sind atemberaubend. Eine wirklich gute und Blutige Ergänzung zum Genre der postapokalyptischen Comics. Von mir 08/10
Die Cheyenne-Mountain-Anlage, auch als „Die Blase“ bekannt, ist der modernste Superbunker der ganzen Welt. Er wurde erbaut, um das Überleben der Exekutive der amerikanischen Regierung und der bedeutendsten Bürger zu sichern, falls das Undenkbare geschehen sollte. Als dann die Welt tatsächlich unterging, gelang es der Exekutive nicht mehr, den Bunker lebend zu erreichen, der amerikanischen Bürgerelite jedoch schon. Achtzig Jahre später hat sich einer aus den elitären Reihen dieser Überlebenden zum neuen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten ernannt.
Meinung:
Kam ich anfangs sehr schwer in die Geschichte rein, wurde sie immer faszinierender und zog mich vollkommen rein.
Ein schöner postapokalyptischer Ausflug durch die Ruinen Amerikas. Wir bekommen ein verstörendes Bild der nächsten Etappen eines Landes und beleuchtet gleichzeitig alle Probleme, die derzeit übersehen werden. Die Ereignisse, die hierhergeführt haben, sind nicht vollständig erklärt, aber die Brutalität ihrer Auswirkungen ist deutlich zu erkennen. Steve Skroce hat mit Post Americana ein ausgezeichnetes Buch mit einer interessanten Geschichte erschaffen und seine Zeichnung sind atemberaubend. Eine wirklich gute und Blutige Ergänzung zum Genre der postapokalyptischen Comics. Von mir 08/10
November 15, 2022
80 years after the end of civilization (due to earthquakes), America is a wasteland overrun with standard Fallout-issue mutants, cannibals, warlords, and advanced junkyard technology. The vast Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex houses the descendants of billionaires living in luxury, served by a slave class they control with tech-collars. The bunker's sociopathic dictator enacts a plan to retake the continent by eradicating every remaining human being. He's opposed by an idealistic freedom fighter and a quadruple amputee with cybernetic limbs.
Skroce channels Garth Ennis's worst instincts and none of his best here. The various wasteland clans are clad in human faces and baby skulls, or ooze puss, or walk around wearing mechanical masturbators. There are more severed limbs than pages in the book. After the grimdark stage is set, he adds a team of foul-mouthed, homicidal Chuck E. Cheese robots to the cast. It sounds more fun than it is.
There's a story with potential somewhere in there--it begins reasonably well but then suffocates underneath the performative shock bits. Waffling between 2 and 3 stars.
Skroce channels Garth Ennis's worst instincts and none of his best here. The various wasteland clans are clad in human faces and baby skulls, or ooze puss, or walk around wearing mechanical masturbators. There are more severed limbs than pages in the book. After the grimdark stage is set, he adds a team of foul-mouthed, homicidal Chuck E. Cheese robots to the cast. It sounds more fun than it is.
There's a story with potential somewhere in there--it begins reasonably well but then suffocates underneath the performative shock bits. Waffling between 2 and 3 stars.
July 11, 2023
A pretty nice post apocalyptic jaunt through the ruins of America.
Cheyenne Mountain, instead of just being NORAD or Stargate, instead holds the secrets to America's survival. However, instead of the leadership of the free world, the one percent takes over and uses it to live lives of spoiled idleness. 80 years later, demagogues try to use their resources foe gain over the others.
Fairly standard post apocalyptic fare, cannibals, strong versus the week, civil duty in the wake of unrelenting horrors. It was weirder with the second savior being a comics book genius- can't tell if he's designed like any of the creators- and his artifical wife. Who turns into the third act villain for reasons unknown. Well, spelt out, its a mission of genocide and property rights but still a little huh.
Starts off great and goes into "huh" territory with the addition of costumed superheroes and thinly disguised well known intellectual properties. Overall a bit janky but not overwhelmingly so, a good addition to the post apocalyptic comics genre.
Cheyenne Mountain, instead of just being NORAD or Stargate, instead holds the secrets to America's survival. However, instead of the leadership of the free world, the one percent takes over and uses it to live lives of spoiled idleness. 80 years later, demagogues try to use their resources foe gain over the others.
Fairly standard post apocalyptic fare, cannibals, strong versus the week, civil duty in the wake of unrelenting horrors. It was weirder with the second savior being a comics book genius- can't tell if he's designed like any of the creators- and his artifical wife. Who turns into the third act villain for reasons unknown. Well, spelt out, its a mission of genocide and property rights but still a little huh.
Starts off great and goes into "huh" territory with the addition of costumed superheroes and thinly disguised well known intellectual properties. Overall a bit janky but not overwhelmingly so, a good addition to the post apocalyptic comics genre.
February 16, 2023
I was drawn to this comic since the artist also created "We Stand On Guard" which was a very cool mech mini-series where Canada and the US fight each other.
But this post-apocalyptic mini-series has inconsistent storytelling, an obvious political message that lacks nuance and weird Disney-like characters popping in by the last third.
The artwork however is stunning with its gory detail and rundown world-building. Characters, especially the evil ones, are ugly with grimace-like faces plastered with skin irritations and exaggerated wrinkles.
I just wished this story would have been less preachy and a streamlined structure instead of this mess.
But this post-apocalyptic mini-series has inconsistent storytelling, an obvious political message that lacks nuance and weird Disney-like characters popping in by the last third.
The artwork however is stunning with its gory detail and rundown world-building. Characters, especially the evil ones, are ugly with grimace-like faces plastered with skin irritations and exaggerated wrinkles.
I just wished this story would have been less preachy and a streamlined structure instead of this mess.
April 14, 2024
The seven issue arc of this series, which constitutes the entirety of the run, is concise, fun and filled with fantastically detailed art that is just a joy to consume. I really don't have a bad thing to say about this comic, after a period in which I've taken a break from the medium this has been a great way to return and has single handedly revitalised my interest in the form. I read it in an afternoon, loving every minute of it, and immediately dropped seventy odd quid on other comics, such was my renewed love. A tale that could only be delivered so effectively as a comic, I can't sing this volume's praises high enough.
June 25, 2024
A post-apocalyptic world is plunged into warfare between the surviving elite class and the uncivilized horde of the wastelands. It's a fair trivial story of tyranny and classism in a sci-fi dystopian setting, made into a grindhouse style B-movie featuring tons of blood and guts. Post Americana in many ways draws off the pulpy insanity that is Geof Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy series, even down to the use of gritty textured, detailed artwork. The story isn't necessarily the most gripping, but it's fun in a campy sort of way. Shallow characters and humor, but this really just is about delivering some absurd levels of violence to an entertaining enough degree.
September 7, 2023
This was insane. Steve Skroce has produced some really solid work in the past. Here, he throws a ton of ideas at the wall and most don't stick. There have been millions of post-apocalyptic stories and this is another but there are some new ideas. Sadly most these ideas are not good. There are so many logic leaps, no real character development, weird things for the sake of weird, and more. His art was very good but there were some truly brutal scenes that seemed pointless. Overall, a pretty unlikeable read.
March 18, 2026
Matrix'in storyboard artistlerinden biri olan Steve Skroce'un kendi serisi Post Americana yer yer komik ve eğlenceli anları olsa da dünyasını çok yüzeysel anlatıyor ve bu yüzden tam potansiyeline ulaşamıyor.
Felaket sonrası amerikada geçen hikayede bir grup zengin gizli yerleşim yerlerinden çıkıp wastelands da yaşayan kimisi etyiyen kimisi masum insanları temizlemeye karar veriyor.Tabi bu gizli üsteki herkes hemfikir olmuyor ve karşı çıkıyor.Olaylar da buradan gelişiyor.
Genel olarak keyifli ve über güzel çizimliydi Skroce'nin tarzı herkese hitap etmeyebilir ama ben seviyorum.
Felaket sonrası amerikada geçen hikayede bir grup zengin gizli yerleşim yerlerinden çıkıp wastelands da yaşayan kimisi etyiyen kimisi masum insanları temizlemeye karar veriyor.Tabi bu gizli üsteki herkes hemfikir olmuyor ve karşı çıkıyor.Olaylar da buradan gelişiyor.
Genel olarak keyifli ve über güzel çizimliydi Skroce'nin tarzı herkese hitap etmeyebilir ama ben seviyorum.
April 2, 2023
Post-apocalyptic comic series about power struggles in the USA - very good.
A powerful community, led by an unelected megalomaniac President, is faced by rebel forces who also have to contend with savage people in the wasteland. It's action-packed stuff with some interesting and original characters. Nicely-illustrated, it's well worth a look. My review does not include #7 which I don't have. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily
A powerful community, led by an unelected megalomaniac President, is faced by rebel forces who also have to contend with savage people in the wasteland. It's action-packed stuff with some interesting and original characters. Nicely-illustrated, it's well worth a look. My review does not include #7 which I don't have. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily
June 12, 2023
It's a fun if overly familiar read, but Skroce's characters are always so engaging, and the artwork is next level excellent. It won't take you anywhere you haven't already been (and more challengingly) but the tone is fun, it looks sensational and there's no harm in a guilty reading pleasure now and then.
June 23, 2024
A strong three, this is a blood-spattered post-apocalyptical tale (aren't they all?), wherein wasteland survivors face off against murderous warlords and a twisted form of government who are trying to make things all benefit them. Our freedom fighters get a good bonus half way through with a twisted Disneyworld of characters who provide much needed levity.
November 9, 2022
I so badly wanted to love this, but ultimately, the story is too goofy and mean-spirited to be taken seriously as satire. The artwork is amazing, but when applied to this story’s narrative excesses, it reminds us of the ways in which Geof Darrow’s work can be a virtuosic turnoff.
December 22, 2021
Ugh. It started as this pretty cool female badass tale bit then they add stupid Disney characters and we don't even get a satisfying death for the big bad. Just ran out of steam...
January 7, 2022
Hilarious, spot-on satire!
April 16, 2022
Eggbert is a king
January 23, 2023
Pretty funny and the art is great. The characters and broad story felt kinda bland but the specifics and visuals had plenty of fun creativity. 3.5 stars
March 17, 2023
Bastante chulo. Una historia postapocalíptica macarra y letal... Como ya comenté me recordaba constantemente a Punkapocalyptic
May 21, 2024
This started out ok but then just got kind of ridiculous.
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