News From The Fallout #5

by Chris Condon, Jeffrey Alan Love (Cover Art)

Old Joe's survivors take refuge in the silver mining ghost town of Dead Water as they continue to seek a route for escape.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction

Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2025

Reviews

[Colin Post · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is NOT going where I thought it would! Alien spores that also took out the dinosaurs? Yes! I’ve liked the book a lot, especially the unique visual look and design, but I didn’t really know how it would fill out a six-issue series. This is an awesome left turn that sets up an intriguing final issue.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well that certainly added a lot more history to the problem we are dealing with, although this really doesn’t feel like the issue before the big finale. What’s going to happen, is it finally going to win? The start of this issue reveals that the problem we are dealing with, the spores, have bene here for a very long time. It came from space and actually crashed down when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. So what killed the dinosaurs? As it turns out in this world it was those spores that do what they are always programmed to do, infect, spread, and kill everything until the job is done. After the dinosaurs were wiped out the spores petrified and laid in wait until the atomic tests ripped it back from the ground and it began to whisper into the ear of the general, kicking off the events of this series. But as it turns out the general was the first one to find it, and thats where Gage Hepburn comes in, the lone gunslinger and his dog that our group found in desperate Marion in the town of dead water. Turns out it’s a ghost town because of those spores. Gage experienced the same thing they are going through just on a smaller scale, the scale of the town, and he ended up ending it all by luring the inflected towns people into the cave system and burying them all alive. And now it’s happening again. Gage has been preparing for this day, he feared and somehow knew that the spores they encountered weren’t the only ones out there, and he has guns aplenty for them to use. But they don’t have enough time, the people infected are already on their way and even a Gatling gun may not be enough to take them all down…especially because of the ravens. The ravens are being used as a dispersal system and while gage is able to provide great cover for our group he would rather die then leave his down. So he directs our team to the cave system with a direct route to Las Vegas (cause a major population center is exactly where they should go, smh), and he sets up his gun to hold them off. Unfortunately his dog is almost immediately killed but as our characters hear the echos of the gunfire they know they can’t stop moving.

[Craig Schorling · Rating 4 out of 5]

The backstory of what is going on was very imaginative and creative. The tension continues to be thick and really immersive. This has been very well paced and the final issue is set up nicely here.

[Alex Fyffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5