Bad Timing

A review of Post Americana #1

I don’t know if I’m going to pick up this book again. Part of me really doesn’t want to out of fatigue. After only the first issue.

After the attempted coup on January 6, I’ve had it with American dystopia Mad Max rip off stories where all the heroes look cool. This would have been perfect if it had been done earlier, like the 1980's.

That’s not sarcasm or faint praise either. This is a fun book to look at on the surface. Writer/artist Steve Skroce is getting his Geoff Darrow on, and the pages have shades of Darrow’s collaborations with Frank Miller, coupled with hints of Miller’s Martha Washington series with artist Dave Gibbons.

And then there’s this far more blatant nod to Miller.

Post Americana is almost Americana in and of itself. Sadly, that doesn’t help it enough.

I was able to tolerate the dystopia of Billionaire Island because it was more rooted in the real world and didn’t glorify the suffering and violence. I didn’t mind the violence in the Dark Knights: Death Metal books because it was too cartoony and ridiculous to be offended at. Skroce’s book doesn’t touch either of…