The Wasteland Graphic Novel, First Issue Free

Posted by on Jul 09 2009

To whet your Post Apocalyptic Apetite, the Oni Press folks are giving away a free download (as cbr file) of the first issue of ‘The Wasteland’ . Click here to download the Wasteland

100 years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet-small, mostly illiterate, and struggling for survival. When the town welcomes a stranger named Michael into its midst, will the quiet man lead them to a brave new world or shatter what little order still exists?
From the writer and the artist of Queen & Country: Declassified: Sons & Daughters comes a bold new ongoing series that bends genres and conventions in a way that only comics can!

http://www.onipress.com/display.php?type=se&id=26

Post Apocalyptic Comic Books / Graphic Novels

Posted by on Jul 09 2009


I’ve come across a couple of Post Apocalyptic graphic novels, even though I haven’t bought them, they look very cool.

The first one I came across via: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7519
Here’s a blurb about it:

“Wasteland,” the scorched-earth Oni Press series written by Antony Johnston and illustrated by Christopher Mitten, hits the 25-issue milestone in July, an impressive feat for a black and white indie comic book in a marketplace every bit as unforgiving as the barren landscape protagonists Michael and Abi must transverse within its pages.

It can be bought at OniPress: http://www.onipress.com/

More info on the wasteland series here

Here are some more previews of ‘The Wasteland’ http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21569

 

Therefore Repent, is a post apocalyptic and post rapture graphic novel. It looks quite interesting as well and can be bought here: http://nomediakings.org/store
Here’s a brief blurb:
What if the religious right… are actually right?
Without warning, multitudes of Christians float bodily up into the sky.
For the immoral majority, life goes on pretty much as usual.
Except that after the Rapture, magic works — for those willing to risk demonic mutations.
And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners.
But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.

Post Apocalyptic Maps

Posted by on Jul 08 2009

Post Apocalyptic maps are nothing new – but they did become popular in recent years with the ‘I am America’ map of earth changes in 1989. I’ve collected a few of the these earth changes/Post Apocalypic Maps for you to see what could be in store for us at the end times.
The general cosensus is: Avoid Florida.
I am America Map – US Version

This one is found here: http://paganspace.ning.com/xn/detail/1342861:Comment:3578651

This is another map base on I am America found here: http://www.wovoca.com/

Alternative History board has a fun thread going with Post Apocalypic Maps of America, once again, if you live in Florida, your f**ked: This map was posted by user euio
Feeling a bit deviant, try one of these nuclear blast zone maps on your home city, or better yet, the city where your ex lives. This a fun little tool done in google maps from http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html
Along the same lines as above, this map from http://nuclearsurvivalist.com/ shows where to avoid living in the USA when the bombs come a fallin’:

Chernobyl Photos/Picture Resources

Posted by on Jul 06 2009

Here are some great photographic sources for Chernobyl Disaster. Most of the images are quite sad – but are a reminder of what its like to live a post apocalyptic world.

Kiddospeed – this is best known and arguably the best resource – its a fascinating story about a motorcycle tour to the heart of the deadzone:
National Geographic did a special on Chernobyl, its rather short but has some good photos as you would expect of National Geographic:
English Russia has a good number of excellent photos here:
This impressive collection of photos was taken by a forum user “” – from a tour he did of Chernobyl:
vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking service for images – although not all the images are of Chernobyl there many images ‘inspired’ but what happened there. The image below was sourced from here
Flickr is another obvious place for chernobyl images – not all them are of the apocalyptic variety, but there are heaps of pictures to look through (the photo below was taken from this photographer)
WeHeartit.com is another social bookmarketing site for images – here you find a great deal of photographic content on Chernobyl as well – I particually thought the content was quite unique here:
Google Images is another obvious search – some of the results are a bit dubious, as when you do an unfiltered search as below:
I actually find Bing image search a bit better on image search than google, I like the infinite scrolling feature. Content seems to be a bit better than google:
Of course if you are a bit old school you can try altavista/yahoo/alltheweb image search, they do an ok job as well:

Post Apocalyptic Assault Vehicles –

Posted by on Jul 06 2009


The meteor has fallen, plague has disperse or the nuke has land – so now how are you going to get around town. What you need is a post apocalyptic survival/assault vehicle. Jalopnik provides us with some wicked modes of transportation for dealing with the post-gridlock aftermath:

Here’s a list of the Most Popular Vehicles in order (as of today) from its poll as of the date of this entry:
  1. Sisu XA-185
  2. The Buffalo Force Protection Vehicle
  3. MaxiMog
  4. EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle
  5. Steeltruck 4×4
  6. Dobbertin Surface Orbiter
  7. Volvo C303
  8. Earthroamer XV-JP
  9. The Wothahellizat
  10. Sportsmobile

However, most of these are premanufactured – why not build your own homemade motorhomes – see zegarkus.blogspot.com for interesting DIY motorhomes to help you survive the Apocalypse in comfort and style!