After the Fall has some nice-looking art and some pretty insensible art, but the story and dialog are big disappointments.

Can't recommend this one, unfortunately.

The art is nice but the plot isn't. I'm not sure if it wasn't translated well but the plot is rather incoherent. Very disappointing.

Thin characters, a lot of traveling back and forth for no clear reason, and a too-convenient twist at the end.

A dystopia novel, with gripping storytelling and interesting characters. The artwork is semi-realistic, emotive and works brilliantly with the text. The violence at the beginning of the story is graphic and a bit much for me. I enjoyed the unravelling of character motives and given the beginning, I didn't expect the level of mystery and suspense that followed. I found the ending abrupt so the story seems unbalanced to me; I would have liked more.

I want to kindly thank Diamond Book Distributors, Laurent Queyssi and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

We follow the events 116 years after the Fall, when Giala and her tribe are attacked by some barbarians who enslave her and the other women and the little kids are trapped in a cave.

After a while Giala manages to escape and she's trying to find her way back to the kids, but doesn't know where she is, until she encounters a group of freaks that quickly become her friends.

They go to a big tower because there lives a man who can help Giala but in exchange he needs her earphones that she stole from the barbarians.

However, when she finally finds her way home and saves the children, we alongside her and the freaks find out someone's story about what actually happened that caused the Fall in the first place.

The story is great and the ending is even greater, having a twist I didn't expect. 4 Stars!

Pretty standard post-apocalyptic tale, with lots of violence, pseudoscience, women only dressing in bikinis, silly plot twists, and a bit of the old ultra-violence. The art was pretty gripping, but there was nothing in the story to really grip me, nothing that I haven't seen many times before.

Thanks to NetGalley and Laurent Queyssi for giving me an opportunity to read this comic in exchange for an honest review.

Rating 2.5/5

I would like to start with saying that this graphic novel had such good illustrations. It had lots of details and really reflected after apocalypse theme. Also could work much more on faces, expressions were hard to read, faces were missing emotions.

I was disappointed, the story didn't impress me like I thought it would. It was a little bit confusing, story jumped around a bit, so it was hard to understand what's going on. If there were maybe some kind time stamps, it'd be better.

One of the biggest mistakes was making this story short, it could really use some world building and talk more about characters itself. Story was going too fast, so I didn't enjoy it as much.

Summing up, I would say it was ok, it looked like the first draft. There is a lot of space for improvement.

I enjoyed the artwork a lot but the story didn't hold my attention - I usually like post-apocalyptic stories but just wasn't feeling this. Bit too confusing. I have seen this likened to the Saga comics - controversial opinion but I wasn't too keen on Saga so it could just be that this isn't for me.

I thought this comic was pretty good but could have been improved.

The artwork was beautiful, especially the backgrounds. The character designs were neat but everyone's faces seemed stiff. Their expressions didn't change very much, regardless of the scenes taking place.

The story jumped around quite a bit, with no indication of how much time had passed, so it was a bit hard to follow at times.

I enjoyed the plot but it was thin in places. The worldbuilding seemed like it was just getting started when there was a sudden flashback and info dump. Then the story ended very abruptly.

There were a couple typos/editing mistakes ("Are you sure Michael knows what we're going?" and "let's" instead of "lets") but on the whole the writing was fairly smooth.

If this were a longer comic with a bit more meat to its bones, I think it would be pretty good.

I'm not sure what to think of this graphic novel. The story seemed rushed and the characterization didn't seem adequately developed.

I was very interested when I saw the cover however the plot jumps around so much that it was so difficult to keep focused on the progressing story. I love the artwork, it was really good but overall not something I would buy physically in store

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for allowing me to read this!

I absolutely loved!. The art was amazing! This author did amazing. I loved the story and the plot of this graphic novel! I highly recommend.

First off the art style was nice even though it played into the whole post apocalyptic women being mostly naked.

The actual story felt very choppy and like it just jumped to each plot point without really flowing.

The ending also felt very rushed.

Oh my lord! I absolutely loved this graphic novel. I only wish it was longer or that I had the sequel available as soon as I was done reading it! I loved the dystopian aspect as well as the adventure journey they went on.
However, I do feel that the women were sexualized very much in the way they were illustrated, and I was not comfortable with that.

This was way more gruesome then I expected and honestly I had such a hard time actually reading this. It failed to keep my attention for any given amount of time.

The only thing that kept me captive was the continuous question of where they are finding all of this Spandex in a post apocalyptic world and why of all fabrics someone would want to wear that. Especially when it covers so little, you'd think they'd be cold.

Also it's implied that this other tribe just continually goes and steals women from other tribes quite regularly due to the lack of women in their tribe. But the implied fact that these women don't survive long, makes no sense. If you have a lack of women already, it wouldn't make sense to treat them poorly,

Also in general the Male to Female Ration seems already tipped in their being a lack of women. It makes no sense that they'd just slaughter women without a second thought. Adding to the lack of Women, it's surprising that women in general don't seem to be more respected in their communities. Given that women are the minority, and ridiculously buff guys are a dime a dozen.

I was intrigued by this comic mainly by the cover.

Although I usually like post-apocalyptic stories, I found myself bored with this story. The plot has nothing 'new' nor 'original' that I have never seen before.

Also I found it to be a little bit too sexist in ender portrayals. Men are big and strong and women are thin, with big perfectly rounded boobs and almost or fully naked. I really doubt that we all women would be naked in a post-apocalyptic world.

The story deserves 1 star, but I give it two stars because I liked some of the art pages although at the same time, some bullets were a bit creepy in the artstyle.

Predictable, basic storytelling. Artwork was just okay. The cover was the best thing about this book.

I really liked the drawing in this comic book, but it’s one of the few good points it has. It has many of the typical clichés of the genre, I do not like at all how women are represented (although I can understand it considering that it shows a society that, although in the future, has returned to the forms of the past), but the ending... what an anticlimatic ending.

This was honestly such a fun graphic novel. I don’t pick them up often because I never really have the time to dedicate to them but when I do I never hold back. The dialogue, the fantastical element and the magic system were amazing in this and I had so much fun flicking through this edition in my iPad. I had so much fun and will for sure pick up more from this author of course!

Hmmm... Utterly illogical superpowers, people surviving to great age even when the post-Apocalyptic setting is one beast attack after one tribe-on-tribe attack after another beast attack – this really is a hokey old genre comic, and no mistake. Normally the ultra-glossy sheen to the art would be really appealing, but it generally gets lavished on boobies, and ultimately feels quite wasted on such a shonky plot as this. The ending is so rubbish you doubt if the whole thing was written by someone outside their teenaged years... A generous two stars for the visual craft.