Review of
The Seeds: Volume 1,
by David Aja and Ann Nocenti
Five out of five stars
The despair of slow planet destruction
This comic is
the first in another series based on the Earth in rapid decay. Nearly all
environmental factors are near or explicitly toxic. This is summed up by the
caption showing a speaker with the text, “air quality alert, acid snow, zone b
toxic, weaponized fallout, stay indoors.”
Nearly
everything is depicted as grungy and the expressions of any form of human
happiness are almost totally absent. There is a militarized brick wall with
razor wire on top that separates two zones. In this issue, there is no significant
explanation of the reason for the separation.
Creatures such as bees and birds are also included
expressing sentient thoughts and there is mention of a group that may be space
aliens deliberately driving at least some of the destruction. Some of the
people wear environmental isolation suits.
Many
independent comics are based on an Earth where humans exist in a brutal environment
where most of the joy of living has been extracted. This is one of the darkest,
for the background has been set where it is difficult to see where there could
be anything close to a “happy ending.”
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