Post Americana #4

Post Americana #4

Image Comics 2020

Written & Illustrated by Steve Skroce

Coloured by Dave Stewart

Lettered by Fonografiks

Carolyn 's reunion with her long thought dead mother is cut short when they're captured by AMERICAN FORCES, and a hero called the NIGHT TERROR, a fiction from the the gone world, appears, but is he friend or foe?

There is something about this book, call it the “IT” factor if you will, that when you open it up and you see that first page it stirs something inside you. When you see that page and the entire story comes flooding back and you don’t have to look at past issues because everything becomes crystal clear in that moment. This is kind of rare nowadays to be able to do that so when it does happen you have take notice and if you haven’t picked this up yet well then you really should because this is going to be something that will be talked about for many many years to come. This is actually quite relevant to today’s world and what the United States has been going through over the recent past few years.

I am enjoying the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented in a way that keeps it all constantly moving forward. I also like that we see the events happen rather quickly one after the other creating this absolutely amazing read. The character development continues to be impressive and this issue when Carolyn gets to talk to her mother she becomes so much more complex and it’s great. The pacing that we see is fantastic and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story, new characters and the twists & turns along the way you can be assured you are in for a bumpy ride so buckle up buttercup!

How we see this being structured is fabulous and with the layers within the story continuing to grow stronger and new ones emerge it helps to create this magnetic field of intrigue and interest whose pull is hard to resist. How we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow is rather marvellously rendered. Everything flows so well that it almost feels like this is perfectly done for the maximum impact for the reader to have.

The interiors here are fantastic! The linework is phenomenal and how we see the varying weights and techniques being utilised to bring out the detail work that we see is mind blowing. For me the backgrounds are incredible but we don’t see enough of them as they really enhance the moments and bring us this nice depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story. How we see a few characters and Nathaniel’s mother in particular will leave you stunned into silence. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see phenomenal! How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work shows a stellar eye for how colour works. How we see the way colour can contour and shape musculature is achieved incredibly well.

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There is just that crazy something about this that can be related to by just about anyone. It may be a post-apocalyptic story but it’s is so highly relevant to what we’ve experienced and what we still could experience that is eerily foreboding. Still this is one of those books that remain with you long after you finish reading it.