Not sure how Aaron is going to finish this..Am I alone in the feeling that this will not be a satisfying ending?.Futuristic post-apocalyptic dystopia – I get that..Happy endings not guaranteed – I get that..But the characterizations are getting, as John Denver might say, FAR OUT MAN (long before it was legal here in Colorado)!.In particular, I’m upset that, of the two topsiders we have met, in the end, we are left with nothing good to say about either of them..Already known, there appears to have been nothing good about Sarah from the beginning. I’m good with that. We know that, on the whole, topsiders are the perennial bad guys in this saga. And 50% of the sample size (one of two), that’s okay, too..But Jim seemed so promising. Maybe not all topsiders were bad. Maybe some of them are just trapped by circumstances beyond their control..And Jim was stepping up, trying to take control of those circumstances. Apparently, he had even convinced Sarah to go along with him..Jim was, to me, a sign of hope in this world that Aaron has created that, as far as I can tell, is pretty much hopeless..And by making Jim “crazy” just adds to the hopelessness of this comic strip…
Not sure how Aaron is going to finish this..Am I alone in the feeling that this will not be a satisfying ending?.Futuristic post-apocalyptic dystopia – I get that..Happy endings not guaranteed – I get that..But the characterizations are getting, as John Denver might say, FAR OUT MAN (long before it was legal here in Colorado)!.In particular, I’m upset that, of the two topsiders we have met, in the end, we are left with nothing good to say about either of them..Already known, there appears to have been nothing good about Sarah from the beginning. I’m good with that. We know that, on the whole, topsiders are the perennial bad guys in this saga. And 50% of the sample size (one of two), that’s okay, too..But Jim seemed so promising. Maybe not all topsiders were bad. Maybe some of them are just trapped by circumstances beyond their control..And Jim was stepping up, trying to take control of those circumstances. Apparently, he had even convinced Sarah to go along with him..Jim was, to me, a sign of hope in this world that Aaron has created that, as far as I can tell, is pretty much hopeless..And by making Jim “crazy” just adds to the hopelessness of this comic strip…