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The Massive, Vol. 1: Black Pacific - Garry Brown, Kristian Donaldson, Brian Wood Every environmental catastrophe that could possibly happen has, one right after the other. The oceans are rising, economies are collapsing, wildlife is dying off in huge numbers, and America has gone off the grid. The environmental group The Ninth Wave (similar to Greenpeace) has lost contact with one of its ships, the Massive of the title. The other ship, Kapital, has gone in search of it.

The search for the Massive ends up, at least in the this volume, as a framework for exploring the world shaped by all of the disasters, which are described, in detail, and flashbacks. Is it realistic? Well, it felt like the world that would result from what's described, at least to me. And I liked how the characters have responded to their new situations. That, too, felt realistic. And I was completely absorbed, because I wanted to see where the story was going, and how the people would react to it.

The art is excellent. I love how much effort was put into the character design. This is not a book with one female face and one or two male faces, repeated endlessly. And I love how the colorist gave the flashback scenes a sepia tone. It instantly conveys which panels are in the past and which are in the present. It's just a great looking book, all around.

I'm definitely interested to see where this thing is going. There are some hints in the book that there might be some explanations in the not too distant future. Hopefully, that's true. It would be really hard to maintain the tension of the search for Massive for very long.