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Undiscovered Country Volume 6: Victory
152 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2026
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Charles Soule
1,544 books1,729 followersCharles Soule is a #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist, comics author, screenwriter, musician, and lapsed attorney. He has written some of the most prominent stories of the last decade for Marvel, DC and Lucasfilm in addition to his own work, such as his comics Curse Words, Letter 44 and Undiscovered Country, and his original novels Light of the Jedi, The Endless Vessel, The Oracle Year and Anyone. He lives in New York.
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September 9, 2026"America is a story. This is how it ended."
The irregular release schedules of Image books can be annoying, but when you have a series based around the concept of America going mad and turning its back on the world, and you release slightly less than one volume a year in this of all decades, you also enable a sort of archaeology; looking back at my reviews of Undiscovered Country, my level of enthusiasm oscillates much more than I think variations in the comic's own quality merit, and more according to the precise form and force of my annoyance with the USA at each point. So, take everything that follows with a pinch of salt, because as is usually the way with history, knowing the patterns doesn't mean I can escape them.
Bits here may always have been part of the plan, but land much harder now, like the rogue AI unleashed in the 2020s by chancers who honestly assumed the grown-ups would rein them in. But elsewhere...spoilers, I suppose, but I'm a bit put out by the way a story so determinedly about and until now set in America places so much of its endgame on the Moon which, sure, great national triumph, but it still feels off both thematically and practically: how did the rest of the world not notice what was happening up there? And speaking of the rest of the world, bloody hell. I've always found something hilarious in the notion of it having settled, in about 30 years from now, into a unified Asia and a combined European/African bloc, but I don't recall whether we previously had mention of said combined Asia following a divine Chinese emperor which...WTF? And I'm trying to remember whether we ever saw a single mention of what the rest of the Americas were doing during all this, because we certainly didn't during the combined (and weirdly quick) invasion in this volume. So a book trying to examine US exceptionalism remains, to the last, shaped by it. Not to mention going very Star Wars in how much it lets the fate of the world he overshadowed by wah wah family drama. All in all, the book promised a lot and sometimes it was brilliant, but by the time it wrapped up I was more often than not finding it very frustrating. Yes, yes, just like America, aaaah.
The irregular release schedules of Image books can be annoying, but when you have a series based around the concept of America going mad and turning its back on the world, and you release slightly less than one volume a year in this of all decades, you also enable a sort of archaeology; looking back at my reviews of Undiscovered Country, my level of enthusiasm oscillates much more than I think variations in the comic's own quality merit, and more according to the precise form and force of my annoyance with the USA at each point. So, take everything that follows with a pinch of salt, because as is usually the way with history, knowing the patterns doesn't mean I can escape them.
Bits here may always have been part of the plan, but land much harder now, like the rogue AI unleashed in the 2020s by chancers who honestly assumed the grown-ups would rein them in. But elsewhere...spoilers, I suppose, but I'm a bit put out by the way a story so determinedly about and until now set in America places so much of its endgame on the Moon which, sure, great national triumph, but it still feels off both thematically and practically: how did the rest of the world not notice what was happening up there? And speaking of the rest of the world, bloody hell. I've always found something hilarious in the notion of it having settled, in about 30 years from now, into a unified Asia and a combined European/African bloc, but I don't recall whether we previously had mention of said combined Asia following a divine Chinese emperor which...WTF? And I'm trying to remember whether we ever saw a single mention of what the rest of the Americas were doing during all this, because we certainly didn't during the combined (and weirdly quick) invasion in this volume. So a book trying to examine US exceptionalism remains, to the last, shaped by it. Not to mention going very Star Wars in how much it lets the fate of the world he overshadowed by wah wah family drama. All in all, the book promised a lot and sometimes it was brilliant, but by the time it wrapped up I was more often than not finding it very frustrating. Yes, yes, just like America, aaaah.
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July 8, 2026A Scott Snyder-penned series that trades on American iconography heading towards its conclusion with an arc set on the moon? Likely thing to happen... That being said, American Vampire, while not without its issues, was always fun, and Undiscovered Country is very rarely that - I'd place the blame on Soule but he's had some good series in the seven years it took to wrap this one up. Happy I trusted myself when I saw the first volumes in the library a few years back and said "mmm nah I'll wait on that one" because if I had been reading this as it was coming out, I'm pretty sure I would have dropped it - the only thing really compelling me to finish was that I knew it had just wrapped. The focus was never there for me and the characters are mostly ciphers - a couple die in this volume after 30 issues of no major character deaths, but it doesn't feel like it means anything - it just happens and then we move on. "America is a story" is a facile way to end this, but what else were they really going to do? Have a classic "finale over-narrated by another character as the events happen in front of us so what's the point of narration" issue? Oh wait... Not a highlight of either's bibliographies.
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