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Wasteland Book 10: Last Exit for the Lost
As the hit sci-fi western epic approaches its end, this penultimate volume collects all the previously uncollected one-shot issues from the series in one trade paperback! With guest art from legendary artist Sam Kieth (SANDMAN) and Eisner award nominee Brett Weldele (SURROGATES), plus exciting newcomers Sandy Jarrell and Omar Olivera! Get the lowdown on all the remaining stories in WASTELAND, before the series' cataclysmic conclusion!
104 pages, Paperback
First published June 18, 2014
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Antony Johnston
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Antony Johnston is one of the most versatile writers of the modern era.
The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde was based on his graphic novel. His murder mystery series The Dog Sitter Detective won the Barker Book Award. His crime puzzle novel Can You Solve the Murder? reinvented choose-your-own-story books for a mainstream audience and was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year. The Brigitte Sharp spy thrillers are in development for TV. And his productivity guide The Organised Writer has helped authors all over the world take control of their workload.
Antony is a celebrated videogames writer, with genre-defining titles including Dead Space, Shadow of Mordor, and Resident Evil Village to his credit. His work on Silent Hill Ascension made him the only writer in the world to have contributed to all of gaming’s ‘big three’ horror franchises.
His immense body of work also includes Marvel superheroes such as Daredevil and Shang-Chi, the award-winning Alex Rider graphic novels, the post-apocalypse epic Wasteland, and more. He wrote and directed the film Crossover Point, made entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.
An experienced podcaster and public speaker, he also frequently writes articles on the life of an author, and is a prolific musician.
Antony is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s videogames committee. He lives and works in England.
Antony Johnston is one of the most versatile writers of the modern era.
The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde was based on his graphic novel. His murder mystery series The Dog Sitter Detective won the Barker Book Award. His crime puzzle novel Can You Solve the Murder? reinvented choose-your-own-story books for a mainstream audience and was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year. The Brigitte Sharp spy thrillers are in development for TV. And his productivity guide The Organised Writer has helped authors all over the world take control of their workload.
Antony is a celebrated videogames writer, with genre-defining titles including Dead Space, Shadow of Mordor, and Resident Evil Village to his credit. His work on Silent Hill Ascension made him the only writer in the world to have contributed to all of gaming’s ‘big three’ horror franchises.
His immense body of work also includes Marvel superheroes such as Daredevil and Shang-Chi, the award-winning Alex Rider graphic novels, the post-apocalypse epic Wasteland, and more. He wrote and directed the film Crossover Point, made entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.
An experienced podcaster and public speaker, he also frequently writes articles on the life of an author, and is a prolific musician.
Antony is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s videogames committee. He lives and works in England.
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September 8, 2018
Good volume.
November 11, 2015
Like the fifth volume (Tales of the Uninvited), Last Exit for the Lost features a few odds & ends stories, filling in some gaps, including one that provides updates for memorable characters from throughout the series.
What's most valuable about Last Exit is that it compiles the prose pieces that accompanied the first fifty-two issues of the series, collected in the hardcover deluxe editions but until this point seemingly lost to readers who might have only read in these softcover volumes.
Which would have been their considerable loss. The prose pieces were always some of my favorite memories of Wasteland. When someone references world-building in relation to this series, the prose pieces were in fact the best place to find it.
Otherwise unrelated to the greater stories unfolding around them, these pieces were all about Antony Johnston exploring what civilization was really like, not just in Newbegin or the dog tribes or other random communities, but throughout the greater wasteland that was the setting and series namesake, a post-apocalypse a few steps removed from life as we know it.
Post-apocalyptic fiction is a whole subgenre. The Walking Dead is the most famous example at the moment, but I'm sure you could think of others, such as The Postman or The Stand. It doesn't always have to feature zombies.
The thing about Wasteland that I always admired was that Johnston took such pains in fleshing out his apocalyptic landscape, the culture of it, an actual way of life. It wasn't just about surviving or discovering that people are nasty no matter how you find them.
The prose pieces are cleverly presented from the viewpoint of a woman who came from a family of literate people, who made it their life's goal to preserve the world as they experience it exploring as much and as far as they can.
Now collected in one place, they represent, more now than ever, as much a legacy of Wasteland as the comic book masterpiece Johnston otherwise gave readers, and another example of the simple message the saga as a whole was always meant to convey: Life is worth preserving, and it's harder to interrupt than you'd think.
Does that make sense to you? Then maybe you will want to read this stuff, too. Maybe start with Last Exit. The prose will fascinate you. And the examples of what you will find elsewhere will fascinate you, too. And there will only be ten more volumes to read.
And like Ankya Ofsteen, you'll probably conclude this stuff is worth preserving, and passing on.
What's most valuable about Last Exit is that it compiles the prose pieces that accompanied the first fifty-two issues of the series, collected in the hardcover deluxe editions but until this point seemingly lost to readers who might have only read in these softcover volumes.
Which would have been their considerable loss. The prose pieces were always some of my favorite memories of Wasteland. When someone references world-building in relation to this series, the prose pieces were in fact the best place to find it.
Otherwise unrelated to the greater stories unfolding around them, these pieces were all about Antony Johnston exploring what civilization was really like, not just in Newbegin or the dog tribes or other random communities, but throughout the greater wasteland that was the setting and series namesake, a post-apocalypse a few steps removed from life as we know it.
Post-apocalyptic fiction is a whole subgenre. The Walking Dead is the most famous example at the moment, but I'm sure you could think of others, such as The Postman or The Stand. It doesn't always have to feature zombies.
The thing about Wasteland that I always admired was that Johnston took such pains in fleshing out his apocalyptic landscape, the culture of it, an actual way of life. It wasn't just about surviving or discovering that people are nasty no matter how you find them.
The prose pieces are cleverly presented from the viewpoint of a woman who came from a family of literate people, who made it their life's goal to preserve the world as they experience it exploring as much and as far as they can.
Now collected in one place, they represent, more now than ever, as much a legacy of Wasteland as the comic book masterpiece Johnston otherwise gave readers, and another example of the simple message the saga as a whole was always meant to convey: Life is worth preserving, and it's harder to interrupt than you'd think.
Does that make sense to you? Then maybe you will want to read this stuff, too. Maybe start with Last Exit. The prose will fascinate you. And the examples of what you will find elsewhere will fascinate you, too. And there will only be ten more volumes to read.
And like Ankya Ofsteen, you'll probably conclude this stuff is worth preserving, and passing on.
March 1, 2015
Only for the really diehard fan of this series. This is little more than a placeholder on the way to the series' conclusion. Over half of this volume is dedicated to short stories and vignettes from the Wasteland world. There are only three short, comics stories in the volume, and none is really essential.
January 7, 2015
A great tale, very original. Mystery abounds!
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