bookheaven | Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, Vol. 2

Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This one picks up several years down the road from Vol 1 where Mezzy and Maceo are young adults and have moved on to the sexual phase of their relationship. And it is vast. Seriously. Free Love Hippies would be impressed (so yeah if sex scenes aren't your cuppa, you'll want to give this a pass)

They're trying to find the Ranger's paradise and they manage it. It becomes a beacon for those wandering the Wastelands. Mezzy repurposes the idea of the Rangers as something to go out and leave Maceo's weird inventions everywhere to lead people to this Utopia.

And that is what they build. Lots of polyamorous relationships, orgies, naked hot springs, even a consent-bound sex dungeon. Mostly Maceo uses the mall tower he grew up in as a model so there are all kinds of bizarre rooms. His inventions and his know how combined with others has them making gardens and truly are living in a free society filled with love.

Naturally this can't last. It doesn't and the ending of this non-linear volume is bizarre like Alice when she's Ten Feet Tall. I did find this a bit slow here and there or too intent on being weird and edgy but the art is SO damn good it kicked it right back up to four stars.

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