Undiscovered Country #1 Review

Writers: Scott Snyder and Charles Soule / Artists: Giuseppe Camuncoli and Daniele Orlandini / Image Comics “Former coastline of California”. “Athens. Aliiance Europe-Afrique”. “Air Wall”. These are the phrases we’re confronted with in Undiscovered Country #1. I realized it must’ve been a while since I read an Image #1 book because I haven’t read a dystopian future comic in a bit. But present me the brainchild of Charles Soule and Scott Snyder and I’m all the way on board.

Dystopian Future + Disaster Adventure Movie + Man-eating Bison The key to this book is it’s blend of subtle references to current social pressures, beloved disaster adventure cliches and outrageous sci-fi. The book begins about 45 minutes or so where it would be in a movie. A ragtag group of experts from different fields on a plane getting ready to start the adventure. The world is being ravaged by a disease and all the ugly measures people take when they’re desperate come out. Decades earlier the United States isolated itself in a literal bubble and they’ve been untouched by the plague. There is hope on the horizon, though, as America sends a message to the leaders of the rest of the world offering to give them a cure as long as the exchange is on U.S. soil. Easy, right? You learn early that it will not, in fact, be easy and slowly get a glimpse of what has happened to the country since it’s isolation. Some Unexpected American Myth-Making  There isn’t much to say about the characters since they all fall un…