Being a long-time fan of Enki Bilal, and seeing his work translated into Swedish again after so many years, it saddens me that I cannot give this book a higher rating, and I still think I'm being fairly generous as it is.
The story centers around a major disaster where all digital equipment, such as computers, has ceased to work, and yet email still works. On what servers is email sent, and what devices are used to read it? Much of the story also centers around astronauts in space, to whom communications work flawlessly, despite no digital equipment to communicate through.
Analog television still exist, despite it being almost removed today already, and this story is set 20 years in the future, assuming broadcasting companies still keep ancient analog technology around by then, what receivers would people use to view it? People are stuck in elevators, but mainly still go to work, while in real life most people wouldn't be able to go to work, since public transportation would be problematic due to lack of digital controlling systems, and people would even struggle to buy food and necessities since most of our industrialized world depends on "just in time" deliveries, and constant re-supply of stock, controlled by digital computer systems. I could go on here, but to summarize I think the story has great potential as a disaster story, but it's not (yet) fully realized for the actual disaster it would really be. But I'm still hoping it'll catch up in the second and third volumes.
On top of that the drawings I so used to love Bilal for seems not quite on the same level as old classics like The town that didn't exist, Black order brigade, The Nikopol trilogy or The hunting party to mention a few. Not bad, just not on the same level. Or maybe just a different technique.
So, while I did like the book, and even more enjoyed reading Bilal in Swedish again, it wasn't all I had hoped it would be. But still worth getting, and keeping.