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The Last Of Us: American Dreams (2013)

by Neil Druckmann(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1616552123 (ISBN13: 9781616552121)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse Books

review 1: I really enjoyed this story that manages to be unique and interesting while following a common theme: post-apocalyptic earth where a virus has infected the majority of the population turning them into some kind of crazed zombie-like people who chase after and eat non-infecteds. The story centres around two orphan girls who sneak out and venture out into the city to see if they can find a future for themselves besides the one the orphanage will lead them too, fighting in the army. I read everything Faith Erin Hicks writes/illustrates and her work here is top-notch. She has really raised the level of her bar in the last couple of books, bringing nature scenes to her art in the last Bigfoot book and this novel here has her distinctive characters with detailed cityscape ba... moreckgrounds. The book itself is hard to rate though, because while I loved everything about it; it is quite confusing at first (though not hard to figure out as you go along) and everything is left open-ended because this graphic novel is the prequel to a video game. I'm not a gamer so I'll never find out more that way. This book most certainly should have included an introduction to give readers the background information that someone who plays the game would already have known. It is however a genuinely intriguing story. I'm thinking/wishing that if the game (never heard of it before) is popular enough to generate a prequel graphic novel perhaps this will also generate enough interest to continue on with the story in graphic format; I'd like to know more about Ellie and Riley.
review 2: I haven't played the game, didn't know a thing about, read only because of Faith Erin Hicks. It's a standard zombie survival story, with themes of trying to find an identity in a world that is just trying to get by, and the difficulties of idolizing a guerilla movement. It wasn't bad or exceptional, but better than neutral. My lone reader's criticism is that the shadowing on Ellie's face was. . .strange. less

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