bookheaven | Once Upon a Time at the End of the World Vol. 1

Once Upon a Time at the End of the World Vol. 1 by Jason Aaron

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I don't generally go for dystopias but since this was at the library and I was eyeing at my comic book store too so I checked it out. Mezzy is on the run, from what we don't originally know. She stumbles across a tower in the wastelands where she meets the sheltered Maceo, a young man living in what looks like a high end, high rise mall, by himself with his inventions and his two dead parents cuddled together on the bed.

We don't know what has killed the world (his parents suggests infection was at least part of it) Maceo is ill suited for life outside and yet he follows Mezzy into the ruined world for reasons I wished had been a lot stronger than they were. Mezzy continues to tell him she's not saving him (as he has no idea how to live out there) but she does.

And that's when her past catches up to her things go badly.

Some of the tension is a bit muted as there are flashforwards to fifty or so years into the future so you know that they survive.

The villains are probably getting the type of fans who review bomb anything by women or creators of color or anyone they think is 'woke' all up in arms. But I see it as natural progression of where some of us are now. I'm interested enough to move on to volume 2

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