Australia’s population flees as the earth becomes toxic. Only the Aboriginals remain, determined to resuscitate the dead land, a land riddled with mutant carnivores, punishing heat, and lethal air. Vaughn discovers a lone child who can breathe the air without consequence – but he’s not talking.

I gotta admit that I had some high hopes for this comic book after I read the summary of this book but before reading this comic book. Because this comic book is sort of a apocalypse comic book, where Australia becomes a toxic waste land and only a few people remain there. But after reading this book is very disappointing to say at least. But let me explain everything in this review.

The premise for the plot was very good and interesting for me. But after reading this comic book I gotta sat that the author didn’t do a good job on this comic book. It would have been much better if the narrative of this comic book was different and started with telling the readers what happened which lead to the Australia becoming toxic and why only few people remained there. But no that doesn’t happen, instead it start right in the middle of it and we follow a character which find a child and tries to keep that child alive. Its very confusing to say at least, I personally didn’t know what was happening for the entire comic book.

To make it simple, the plot is convoluted and poorly executed which makes the entire comic book difficult to follow or get invested in the characters we get in this comic book.

Instead of getting a coherent plot in this comic book, we as readers are presented with a series of disjointed events that lack coherence and depth which why I said above that I was confused for the majority of this comic book. 

The characters in this book are very boring and annoying. The reason behind this is that we don’t learn anything about them and we just follow them through random events in this comic book. The characters in this comic book feels like they weren’t done in a way, they felt like they were just outlines of characters without any specific traits or backstories. 

Character development is almost nonexistent in this comic book, because the  protagonists feel very flat and one-dimensional, with motivations that are unclear or clichéd which of course I mentioned above.

The dialogues in this comic book are very weak, because they feel very stilted and lacks the authenticity which would make us as readers interested in them. We don’t get any form for engaging conversations, but what we do get is the dialogues which come off as awkward and like something a toddler would say as they learn to talk and they just throw in random words in the conversation as they go.

The artwork here is pretty bad, because it doesn’t help to improve the plot or improve anything for that matter. The artwork in this comic book lacks consistency and polish, making it hard to appreciate the visuals in the context of the story.

I Give This Book 1 / 5