One of the weird things about these scans is that some of them seem to have the panel caption whited out. Wonder what was there originally?
On the Beach is one of those books that I always thought that I might read, but was in no particular hurry to, as it would seem to be massively depressing. This adaptation captures the melancholy as people contemplate their deaths, but parts of it are oddly romance comic-ish. Then again, comics usually doesn’t do nuclear war very well, unless it’s to go to the bog-standard post-apocalyptic mutant cockroach cliches.
One notable exception, sort of, is V for Vendetta, which (at least in the original comic book) takes place in a Britain which was isolated by a limited nuclear exchange. In his foreword to the collected comic, Alan Moore, who had started writing it in 1982 for a British publisher several years before he finally finished it at DC Comics, said that he’d changed his mind about two things: that any nuclear war was ultimately survivable, and that it would take such an event to drive Britain to fascism.
