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A review by thefussyreader
East of West, Vol. 3: There Is No Us by Jonathan Hickman
4.0
This series gets stranger and stranger in the best way. The politics within this dystopian sci-fi western world is so fantastically convoluted that I found myself having to seriously concentrate to keep track of whose allegiances laid where. This would be fascinating enough if this was just about the politics of this wacky world, but with the thrown in apocalypse elements and the fact that the Four Horsemen are casually roaming around trying to initiate the end of the world adds a whole other layer of brilliance and intrigue.
I'm so rooting for Death, I always have been. His determination to find his son - and I suppose redeem himself in the eyes of his wife - is the very backbone of this series. And damn, Death's wife is a fucking badass. I love Xiaolian. Want a woman with agency? Look no further than Xiaolian.
It'd been a while since I read Vol 2, but after picking up Vol 3, I was immediately reminded why this is one of my favourite graphic novel series. I need to get Vol 4 while this is all still fresh in my mind, because that ending, man.
I'm so rooting for Death, I always have been. His determination to find his son - and I suppose redeem himself in the eyes of his wife - is the very backbone of this series. And damn, Death's wife is a fucking badass. I love Xiaolian. Want a woman with agency? Look no further than Xiaolian.
It'd been a while since I read Vol 2, but after picking up Vol 3, I was immediately reminded why this is one of my favourite graphic novel series. I need to get Vol 4 while this is all still fresh in my mind, because that ending, man.