The Last of Us Author: Visit Amazon's Neil Druckmann Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1616552123 | Format: PDF
The Last of Us Description
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World-weary Ellie hasn’t known anything but the virus-ravaged, military-run region where she has spent the last few years shuttling between military boarding schools, and this new school isn’t any different—same thugs, same power-drunk administrators, same cruddy quarters. But when she spies spunky Riley sneaking out one night, she follows her into the outside world and meets the Fireflies, a vigilante group protecting citizens from heartless soldiers and hungry hordes of the infected (yes, zombies). Hicks (Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, 2013) is up to her usual tricks—deeply expressive faces, cinematic action sequences, and detailed cityscapes—and her cartoony artwork is satisfyingly unsettling against the dark, horror-tinged tale. Teenage Riley and Ellie have grown up fast in a terrifying world, and their fatalistic worldview and copious use of f-bombs fit right in. Though this story is the prequel to the well-received video game of the same name, readers need not be familiar with (nor at all interested in) the game to be moved by this affecting, fast-paced tale. Grades 9-12. --Sarah Hunter
- Series: The Last of Us: American Dreams
- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse; First Edition edition (November 12, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1616552123
- ISBN-13: 978-1616552121
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
To be honest, I doubt anyone would have the same experience reading this comic that I did; very few people are going to walk into a book store and randomly pick up the first trade that they come across, but that is effectively how this works for me. Sure, if the cover says `Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' then I have a fairly good grasp on what the comic is about. For this one, and quite a few others, half the fun has been finding out what the story was about without any expectations telling me I was going to love or hate it. From the moment I started reading I was fascinated by where this was going with the young girl looking out of the coach window, all the military people milling about and the guy being frisked against the wall.
I have a young daughter, quite a lot younger than the girl shown in this comic, but it has left me open to feeling over protective towards young female protagonists and there are many times throughout this comic that I just want to pick her up and give her a hug. Watching her reaching out to the soldier who I guess rescued her and being gently turned down is heart breaking. The art does clever things with the perspective at times as Ellie is shown being towered over by adults and on a par with younger people, more so than would actually be indicated by her actual height. I do not even know if this was a conscious decision by the artist, but it makes me feel so much more protective towards her at the beginning of the comic, but by the time she takes control at the end, there is never this shot showing how small she is again.
Ellie has been sent to a military school in one of the safe districts, an area where the infection has not spread and they can protect those inside from the parasitic fungal zombies outside.
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