The lonely choice
This is an abstract, bizarre, convoluted and abnormal story but in the end it does accomplish something to lift it above the usual for such a concept. This concept is that this is a post-apocalyptic world where a race of insectoid aliens have overrun the planet and killed everything in their path. Whereas many such settings don’t describe the source of the end of the world, this one does and in fact builds on it. The end statement is maybe consistent even with another similar genre of fiction, dystopia, in that there is more going on here than just simple action sequences to kill the monsters once and for all. It raises questions of determinism and what our legacies will be. I can’t say that it was very impressive at all times but at least the end result finishes on a high with a simple yet effective message. It is a long read too, so it takes a while to get there though much of the storytelling is by picture and not by word, so it is in fact not that long of a read. There are some disparate elements as well which makes it so that the story might have been more compacted, but it stands as it is, a pointed description of life in a pointless future.
