Theme week: FEAR

So what happens when the Apocalypse occurs and only about 1% of everyone on earth survived. Well, of course, the end of days. Marvel and Steven King team up again with The Stand.

Captain Trips is the first book. It has the origin story of how this deadly virus spread and within months quickly dwindled the US population. With the virus swiftly moving across the country people begin to worry. Military included. Of course, the military created this strain of super flu know as “Project Blue”. As famine and a deathly cause of the sniffles roam; some people find themselves immune. To wander from place to place knowing everyone around you is dead, but also just expecting for someone to jump out from somewhere. Endless paranoia.

In this case the paranoia is well placed. “The Walking Man” is silently looking for the survivors. In some way he’s the devil, but he is definitely mortal, or so I hope. He is looking into the darkness for people like him to end it all. Kind of like a war, except you know, about good and evil. So yes, to start a war of epic proportions.

Literary Cartoon?

Well, of course, you can’t have a literary cartoon because pages of a book can’t move themselves. Graphic novels are technically just story boards with word bubbles. So that is my excuse to write on this topic.

Mother, Come Home is not a casual read. If you would like to know the feeling of losing a loved one, I suggest reading this book. I will also say if you have lost someone, as I have, I also suggest reading this book. Either, as you can see, reading this book is necessary.

In this novel a boy and his father are dealing with the death of mother/wife. A tale no one truly cares to talk about. The raw emotion felt from the two individuals can not be shaken easily. This is the feeling of truly losing something so important that you realize how mundane your life actually is. Through the use of child-like imagery, you get both sides of the story. A boy losing his mother, and a man losing his wife.

This tale is bitter-sweet, but a logical emotional look into the life of true despair. I hope most can not fully understand the emotional applications of the book, but if you can it may bring some light to your situation.

Just for everyone’s information… I will never go fully into a story, unless it is terrible and I don’t feel as if spoiling things would be terrible.