


Declaiming dictatorially that the new community is her property because “if the city belonged to no one in particular… Everyone would just squabble all the time,” she insists that it be run her way, by her autocratic rules. Seeing the danger in trying to live apart after a virus kills off every adult and adolescent, Lisa organizes a growing crowd of the less-aggressive surviving children into an armed militia.

Just as ideologically unsettling-and patchwork-as ever, Nelson’s 1975 post-apocalyptic tale gets a noir graphic adaptation.
