Blackacre #1 – Review

By: Duffy Boudreau (writer), Wendell Cavalcanti (pencils), Antonio Fabela (colors), Sergio Abad (inks), Aaron Walker (letters)

The Story: A post-apocalyptic society sends out agents to protect their way of life.

Quick review: This comic is just a notch below.  It isn’t terrible by any means and I certainly wouldn’t look funny at anyone who purchased it, but neither is it great and given the number of really high quality comics on the market these days, I wonder where “okay” comics fit into the marketplace.

The story is post-apocalypse with a twist.  Rather than everything being a horrible wasteland, the idea is that some wealthy businessmen saw the collapse coming and bought a big expanse of land from the US government.  There they established a new, self-sufficient society that could survive the apocalypse in high-style.  Not only do they survive, but they still have all the trappings of civilized society: schools, new clothes, politics, etc.  It’s a very different vision of the apocalypse than Rick & Co. from The Walking Dead gobbling expired dog food straight from the can.  Of course, the rest of the world is kinda a mess and the idea is that this civilized Blackacre is willing to go to some pretty extreme lengths to maintain their quality of life and we meet a solider who is about to be turned into one of their unwitting pawns.