Monday, 15 September 2025

Number 51- After the Fall- Queyssi & Juzhen

Now this was just poor in virtually every aspect of storytelling.

The artwork is good although it does seem like the worst excesses of early sword and sorcery artwork where all the women have impossibly perky bosoms and none of them wear many clothes. The female costumes are never particularly practical.

The script is cliched nonsense.  the panels below the review are typical.

This is the first time I've seen a blatant continuity error in a graphic novel.  on page 6, one of the impossibly perky-bosomed women is holding a toddler in her arms.  The toddler is nude and his/her bottom is clearly visible.  In the second panel on page 7, the woman holding the child passes them to another impossibly perky-bosomed lady (this one has her magnificent mammaries on full display) but now the child has a brown tunic.  Two panels later on the same page, they appear to be nude again.

The plot is typical post apocalyptic monsters running around with mutant humans and the real monsters are the remaining normal people type of thing, along with a plot reveal that throws the entire timeline of the story onto the scrapheap.

This was very poor apart from the artwork.  Really not recommended.  if someone offers you a copy, ask them why they hate you so much.

File this one under I read it so you don't have to.  Although you might enjoy the bosoms.  there are a lot of them in here.

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Just to be unambiguous, there are no characters in the story with more or less legs than the standard bipedal humanoid.

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