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What's The Furthest Place From Here? #1-6
What’s The Furthest Place From Here?, Vol. 1: Getting Lost at the End of the World
From Eisner nominated artist Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, Dead Dog's Bite) and bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires, Uncanny X-Men) comes an epic adventure about growing up and getting lost at the end of the world. When 16 year-old Sid goes missing in the wastelands, it's up to the members of her gang to try to discover what happened. But what they find is a whole world beyond anything they could imagine. Like Lord of the Rings meets Lord of the Flies, or John Carpenter by way of John Hughes, this series smashes together sci-fi and fantasy with elements of comedy, horror, and mystery for an emotional coming-of-age story unlike anything you've read before.
This oversized volume collects the first arc of the breakout hit series James Tynion IV calls "What the future of comics SHOULD feel like." Collects issues 1-6.
This oversized volume collects the first arc of the breakout hit series James Tynion IV calls "What the future of comics SHOULD feel like." Collects issues 1-6.
248 pages, Paperback
First published July 5, 2022
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September 7, 2022
Summing up:
Long-winded. Empty. Pretentious. Bargain bin weirdness. Forced quirkiness. A lot of forced quirkiness. Trying so hard to be cool, which is very uncool.
No characters. Directionless. Monsters that are not only not scary, but also never become interesting.
"I wonder what happened here" quickly becomes "who cares what happened here", which quickly becomes "who cares what is happening now".
Creating a new titled chapter for every new scene, which ruins pacing and is insufferably pretentious.
Style stretched to breaking point over emptiness.
Bargain bin everything.
Long-winded. Empty. Pretentious. Bargain bin weirdness. Forced quirkiness. A lot of forced quirkiness. Trying so hard to be cool, which is very uncool.
No characters. Directionless. Monsters that are not only not scary, but also never become interesting.
"I wonder what happened here" quickly becomes "who cares what happened here", which quickly becomes "who cares what is happening now".
Creating a new titled chapter for every new scene, which ruins pacing and is insufferably pretentious.
Style stretched to breaking point over emptiness.
Bargain bin everything.
September 5, 2022
Somewhere between 3.25-3.5. This book is weird and strange as hell, yet interesting? They are in a post-apocalyptic world where all the adults are gone and it’s just kids and teenagers. Where did all the adults go? What happened to the world? All these kids live in there own territories and have their own clique names. You have the bankers living in an old bank, the academics?, the Market, the circus and some people who where pig masks. There are some basic rules they follow like staying out of each other’s territories and not being out at night. We follow the academics ( I think that was their name) and one of their own goes missing. A young pregnant girl. In the process, they break all the rules as they are out at night and going to other territories looking for her. The whole set up is weird. They get their food and get told what’s places they can live in by the “strangers”. They are really tall and where masks so we don’t really know who they are or what’s their angle. This search for the pregnant girl, Sid, takes them through all kinds of madness. I found this story intriguing enough to read another volume to get the answers of what happened to the world, who are these strangers, what will happen to the members of the academics and what’s up with Sid in that final cliffhanger ending.
October 12, 2023
You know those stupid YA post-apocalypse stories that create a new societal structure around stupid clans or groups? Well, here's another.
This sort of plays like a dumb version of Walter Hill's The Warriors. In a world where grown-ups are scary and seldom seen, a group of teenagers called the Academy fight and evade a gauntlet of bizarrely-themed rival gangs on an odyssey to find a missing member who is very much pregnant though she and no one around her seem to understand what that might entail. Run, fight, run, fight, run, fight, run.
There's a mythology hinted at, but the pace at which it is revealed is more frustrating than tantalizing.
I don't think I'll bother with the next volume.
This sort of plays like a dumb version of Walter Hill's The Warriors. In a world where grown-ups are scary and seldom seen, a group of teenagers called the Academy fight and evade a gauntlet of bizarrely-themed rival gangs on an odyssey to find a missing member who is very much pregnant though she and no one around her seem to understand what that might entail. Run, fight, run, fight, run, fight, run.
There's a mythology hinted at, but the pace at which it is revealed is more frustrating than tantalizing.
I don't think I'll bother with the next volume.
October 8, 2022
Awesome post-apocalyptic, Lord of the Flies, punk rock, kick butt story and art. Read it now!!! ☠️
August 6, 2022
Really wanted to like this, especially after loving Rosenberg and Boss’s earlier 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, but Rosenberg’s heavy reliance on genre tropes goes sour and Boss’s art isn’t enough to rescue the book.
Rosenberg repurposed crime movie tropes into a new context that worked well for the middle school heist premise of 4 Kids, but the 80s cult film stuff here is basically just reused in the same way it’s been used before, and apparently without thought for how it fits together, resulting in a post-apocalypse story that’s boring and unclear. It’s also so self-assured in how cool it is, and maybe it is for someone who haven’t seen all this stuff before in other comics and movies, but it’s such a half-assed rehash of disparate visual elements from those earlier stories and its confidence that it’s something hip and new makes the staleness that much more grating.
The full-page chapter breaks that come every 3 or so pages are similarly grating, seemingly convinced that each scene is its own iconic moment, along with chapter titles that are a quote from the following scene. There are literally 45 of these, and there’s definitely not 45 iconic moments or quotes in its 250 pages. There’s also just bad writing flourishes, like kids who are glaringly uneducated randomly knowing words like “porcine” when Rosenberg wants one of them to land a witty comeback.
More than anything, this reads a lot like what a 40 year old guy thinks is cool based on what was hip and throwback 20 years ago, which probably also explains why the core cast all look like scene kids from 20 years ago dressed like glammed-up versions of punk kids from 40 years ago. The main cast has a reverence for vinyl records despite being ignorant of pretty much all technology, and wouldn’t you know it, their taste almost exclusively overlaps with bands that would have aired on 120 Minutes in the late 80s/early 90s. There’s tiny recreations of album covers by Husker Du and Big Black and pre-Dookie Green Day, and it’s all just Ready Player One type shit for people who otherwise probably look down on Ready Player One’s whole corny schtick.
Boss’s art still generally looks great, but it’s dragged down a bit by often zany coloring that’s trying to fit the vibe of the derivative genre story.
Rosenberg repurposed crime movie tropes into a new context that worked well for the middle school heist premise of 4 Kids, but the 80s cult film stuff here is basically just reused in the same way it’s been used before, and apparently without thought for how it fits together, resulting in a post-apocalypse story that’s boring and unclear. It’s also so self-assured in how cool it is, and maybe it is for someone who haven’t seen all this stuff before in other comics and movies, but it’s such a half-assed rehash of disparate visual elements from those earlier stories and its confidence that it’s something hip and new makes the staleness that much more grating.
The full-page chapter breaks that come every 3 or so pages are similarly grating, seemingly convinced that each scene is its own iconic moment, along with chapter titles that are a quote from the following scene. There are literally 45 of these, and there’s definitely not 45 iconic moments or quotes in its 250 pages. There’s also just bad writing flourishes, like kids who are glaringly uneducated randomly knowing words like “porcine” when Rosenberg wants one of them to land a witty comeback.
More than anything, this reads a lot like what a 40 year old guy thinks is cool based on what was hip and throwback 20 years ago, which probably also explains why the core cast all look like scene kids from 20 years ago dressed like glammed-up versions of punk kids from 40 years ago. The main cast has a reverence for vinyl records despite being ignorant of pretty much all technology, and wouldn’t you know it, their taste almost exclusively overlaps with bands that would have aired on 120 Minutes in the late 80s/early 90s. There’s tiny recreations of album covers by Husker Du and Big Black and pre-Dookie Green Day, and it’s all just Ready Player One type shit for people who otherwise probably look down on Ready Player One’s whole corny schtick.
Boss’s art still generally looks great, but it’s dragged down a bit by often zany coloring that’s trying to fit the vibe of the derivative genre story.
July 3, 2022
When I blind bought this graphic novel I had high hopes based on praise listed on the back cover. Upon opening it I was delighted at the artwork as well as the setting and thought 'wow this looks like it's gonna be right at my alley' but I was enormously disappointed. There's a lot of really interesting LOOKING characters in this story and they're doing a lot of mysterious type things but by the end of it I really didn't care about any of them as they were slaughtered or dispensed into different factions of this whole new post apocalyptic 'Warriors' meets 'The Running Man' like society.
Maybe I need to avoid the 'T for teen' comics from now on but this just didn't do it for me.
Maybe I need to avoid the 'T for teen' comics from now on but this just didn't do it for me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 2, 2022
I'm really not sure how I feel after reading this. I guess confused? This book kind of throws you into a different world, and I felt like I was one step behind the whole time, just trying to figure out what was going on. It does not hold your hand. That being said, what I understood interested me. I think a second read-through might help clear things up; I'm even noticing things as I'm leafing through it while writing this. There are short chapters; some of them are only 1 page long. There are some humorous bits too. This volume covers an arc, but there are definitely loose ends that would hint at another volume. I do want to read more. I'm curious where this story goes. I like the artwork a lot.
Read for the Geekery's book club
Read for the Geekery's book club
November 3, 2022
What's the Furthest Place From Here is more reminiscent of Tyler Boss's Dead Dog's Bite than the duo's 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank. In a post-apocalyptic future, teenagers form gangs and wait for deliveries from the mysterious, monstrous "Strangers". One gang unravels as a member goes missing - the gang must travel across the weird future landscape, which naturally means encounters with other gangs, who are somehow even weirder.
Children creating a death circus? Children imitating old people? Children running a supermarket? All here. What's the Furthest Place From Here raises farrrrr more questions than it answers. Where are the adults? How far in the future is this? Why don't these characters know how a VCR works? What's the deal with *waves hand* all of this???
What's the Furthest Place From Here is a generally fast-paced and engaging read, though oddly placed chapter breaks mess with the pacing. You'll be hard-pressed to set it down once the adventure kicks off. That said, the adventure (and the characters) don't make a whole lot of sense - it's hard to care about any of this when there are so few explanations. Still, I'll take Tyler Boss artwork any day.
Children creating a death circus? Children imitating old people? Children running a supermarket? All here. What's the Furthest Place From Here raises farrrrr more questions than it answers. Where are the adults? How far in the future is this? Why don't these characters know how a VCR works? What's the deal with *waves hand* all of this???
What's the Furthest Place From Here is a generally fast-paced and engaging read, though oddly placed chapter breaks mess with the pacing. You'll be hard-pressed to set it down once the adventure kicks off. That said, the adventure (and the characters) don't make a whole lot of sense - it's hard to care about any of this when there are so few explanations. Still, I'll take Tyler Boss artwork any day.
August 10, 2023
Insufferable pacing, lack of character development, boring antagonists and just oh so pointless. Weird for the sake of being weird never leads to anything good.
June 5, 2022
An engaging, but somewhat over-baked post-apocalyptic romp from Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss. The story starts strong, but starts to drag under its own weight by the midway point, with a few glimmering moments managing to keep you clinging on for more. Tyler Boss’ artwork is stunning, as ever, and the volume is worth investigating for his impeccable line work alone.
June 25, 2023
Absolutely brilliant storytelling with beautiful and crisp art — this series is all about immersion and you are thrown into the fray before you even have time to process what’s going on! I can’t wait to start then next volume!
August 31, 2022
Some of the best worldbuilding I've seen in any kind of narrative in a very long time. Throw you in the deep end and hope you don't drown, cause the story is worth it.
July 14, 2025
What's the Farthest Place From Here? is a dystopian comic series set in a world where anyone over the age of 18 supposedly dies. All that being said we follow several factions of kids and teenagers as they navigate a broken down world with no adults in it. The Academy is "our" family of kids we follow. They live in the record store until they are suddenly caught out after curfew, housing an adult and in possession of a firearm, then their home gets burnt to the ground and they become this kind of destitute and nomadic family which is really bad because being outside of their normal territories is grounds for not being on this Earth much longer (aka dead).
This kept giving me similar vibes to Deadly Class, Book One: Noise Noise Noise in that we are following a bunch of kids and that The Academy is like the punk house. Each house ends up kind of representing a different clique. Honestly, that was about the extent of my relating it to Deadly Class but I couldn't help but keep associating the two on a surface level.
What makes this so much below Deadly Class was the almost plot-less middle section. After we got introduced to the characters and the problem they faced it turned into this weird fever dream that I couldn't really get behind. Let it also be known that I am not a fan of the "trippy" or fever dream type narrative, I'm just not. I like to have a grasp of what's going on a little more than we were offered in this series. By the end of the volume (issue 6) things did start to come back around though and start to make sense again.
I think that I would like to give volume 2 a try before deciding to dump this series all together. I am hopeful that we can stay on a more reliable track as far as the plot goes. There was enough given in the last issue that I am curious for more.
This kept giving me similar vibes to Deadly Class, Book One: Noise Noise Noise in that we are following a bunch of kids and that The Academy is like the punk house. Each house ends up kind of representing a different clique. Honestly, that was about the extent of my relating it to Deadly Class but I couldn't help but keep associating the two on a surface level.
What makes this so much below Deadly Class was the almost plot-less middle section. After we got introduced to the characters and the problem they faced it turned into this weird fever dream that I couldn't really get behind. Let it also be known that I am not a fan of the "trippy" or fever dream type narrative, I'm just not. I like to have a grasp of what's going on a little more than we were offered in this series. By the end of the volume (issue 6) things did start to come back around though and start to make sense again.
I think that I would like to give volume 2 a try before deciding to dump this series all together. I am hopeful that we can stay on a more reliable track as far as the plot goes. There was enough given in the last issue that I am curious for more.
April 9, 2024
A weird (but not in a good way) post-apocolyptic tale of kids without adults.
May 4, 2024
Weird, intentionally vague, and slightly derivative…. but curious nonetheless.
Could have used, like, two dozen fewer chapter breaks.
I’m intrigued to see where this series ends up.
3/5
Could have used, like, two dozen fewer chapter breaks.
I’m intrigued to see where this series ends up.
3/5
January 12, 2023
raise your hand if you were personally victimized by a bald person today
October 21, 2022
You have to be patient. If you are reading as issues, wait until #6.
Which means Vol. 1: Get Lost.
Until than nothing make sense. Sorry.
I should’ve paid more attention what I’m about to read cuz’ this is an ongoing comic and just Vol.1 is out.what the fuck I’ve done I read issue #7 and it’s getting interesting. Still, I couldn’t like the pace, length of chapters is way too short and almost all of them start in the middle of everything. That does mean you have to figure it out what’s going on or what just happened, but also that doesn’t mean the narration is like an exciting puzzle to solve.
I’m gonna wait for whole issues of Vol. 2 to continue.
Very odd but familiar storyline. Apocalypse, children, gangs, strangers, violence. Something wrong with growing up, they don’t know anything being adult, like getting pregnant; they and we don’t know how it started, who are the strangers, are they bad or good guys (my vote is latter), how children get their supplies like foods, clothes, hair dyes etc; and main characters are teens (practically adults who are about to be dismissed somehow) but seeing children under ten between them in strange positions gives you creepy vibes (not just this but I don’t wanna spoil).
The art’s beautiful; high-negative-colored shadows, grain textures, bold strokes,,, Especially I like the fashion of gangs, I hope we can learn the causation their names- or styles.
Which means Vol. 1: Get Lost.
Until than nothing make sense. Sorry.
I should’ve paid more attention what I’m about to read cuz’ this is an ongoing comic and just Vol.1 is out.
I’m gonna wait for whole issues of Vol. 2 to continue.
Very odd but familiar storyline. Apocalypse, children, gangs, strangers, violence. Something wrong with growing up, they don’t know anything being adult, like getting pregnant; they and we don’t know how it started, who are the strangers, are they bad or good guys (my vote is latter), how children get their supplies like foods, clothes, hair dyes etc; and main characters are teens (practically adults who are about to be dismissed somehow) but seeing children under ten between them in strange positions gives you creepy vibes (not just this but I don’t wanna spoil).
The art’s beautiful; high-negative-colored shadows, grain textures, bold strokes,,, Especially I like the fashion of gangs, I hope we can learn the causation their names- or styles.
Hope won't turns out a YA drama
xoxoxo
iko
January 28, 2024
This was so bad. First off, what is going on?! I WANT A BACKSTORY!! And also, why is that one girl pregnant (this isn't a spoiler cuz it's on the FIRST PAGE)? She is like 16. AND why did the authors write that they were the author like 10 times before ACTUALLY STARTING the book? It got one star for the 'About Me' things for the authors because they were kind of funny, BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS NOT GOOD.
January 5, 2023
Meh. I dislike it when it's not clear what is being depicted in certain panels, as is often the case here. The interleaving of different scenes is all fairly routine, the story is vague, the set-up rather rote post-apocalyptic, and why on earth would you call a character Prufrock? Waded about 20 pages in, but it bored the hell out of me.
July 18, 2022
It's time to write that dystopian future story where only the old survive, because the young have such weak immune systems. Yeah, that way when we name check Joy Division or Descendents or, heaven help, Hall & Oates, you'd get the feeling they'll know some songs. What? The Road?!
February 26, 2023
The world ended and gangs of kids control their little turfs and rep theirs wacky gang hard like it’s The Warriors. A lot of mystery that doesn’t amount to much of interest, the best part are the little world building details and colors.
August 23, 2023
Me ha recordado un poco a la serie que canceló Netflix de "La sociedad" pero con mucha más sangre y violencia. Me ha dejado con ganas de más.
September 11, 2024
I was really hyped when this series was announced back in 2018 as a follow-up to Rosenberg and Bass' smash hit 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank. Stuff happened, the series was released a way later in 2021, and I completely forgot about it until I picked up this volume in the summer.
The story is set in a post-apo future where the adults are gone, and gangs of children live among the ruins, relying on mysterious Strangers who provide them with food, set the rules, and probably do other stuff.
The main protagonists are members of The Academy, a gang of punk rock kids living in an old record store. Things are set in motion when a pregnant gang member disappears, and the rest of the gang is trying to find out what happened.
It's the kind of story where you basically know nothing about the world, its rules, or what happened before, but the setting is really intriguing and you are stoked to learn more. I got hooked almost instantly!
The art fits the story perfectly, and I love the idea of the "emoji avatars" for individual characters. It makes it easier to orient who is who. The only thing I don't get is the chaptering after every couple of pages.
The story is set in a post-apo future where the adults are gone, and gangs of children live among the ruins, relying on mysterious Strangers who provide them with food, set the rules, and probably do other stuff.
The main protagonists are members of The Academy, a gang of punk rock kids living in an old record store. Things are set in motion when a pregnant gang member disappears, and the rest of the gang is trying to find out what happened.
It's the kind of story where you basically know nothing about the world, its rules, or what happened before, but the setting is really intriguing and you are stoked to learn more. I got hooked almost instantly!
The art fits the story perfectly, and I love the idea of the "emoji avatars" for individual characters. It makes it easier to orient who is who. The only thing I don't get is the chaptering after every couple of pages.
October 13, 2022
"Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg, the creative team behind 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, reunite to deliver the opening chapters of the post-apocalyptic coming-of-age saga, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? Though this comic begins with some familiar world building—rival gangs and stories of a distant safe place that sound too good to be true—the world and story soon grow in unexpected ways. The teens that inhabit these pages have aged before their time, forging hierarchies and methods of survival that are often violent and brutal. At the same time, it is always clear that they remain kids. As they bicker and banter, make poor decisions, find friendship and romance in unexpected places, this series is as much about the pains of growing up in a strange world as it is about survival. With distinct and flawed characters and a bizarre world that poses challenges more freely than it provides answers, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? begins on intriguing ground and only draws the reader deeper as the stakes rise and the world reveals itself a stranger and more dangerous place than anyone expected to find."
Full review at No Flying No Tights: https://noflyingnotights.com/blog/202...
Full review at No Flying No Tights: https://noflyingnotights.com/blog/202...
November 30, 2024
This book is frustrating. Some panels I spent 5 minutes poring over trying to figure out who was doing an action and what action they were doing. Characters randomly appear and disappear from frames as needed. There are way too many characters, less-than-distinctive visual language for each character (except Poly--great mohawk keep up the good work), the plot doesn't seem to be driven by character choices in any real-world cause-and-effect relationship.....
Overall the story was so disorientating that I legitimately wondered if they had to cut out panels to save space for printing. I guess they had to make room for the 45 pages of "chapter titles".
Overall the story was so disorientating that I legitimately wondered if they had to cut out panels to save space for printing. I guess they had to make room for the 45 pages of "chapter titles".
December 31, 2023
Weird and it takes a little bit to get going but its pretty funky and fun. It drops a bunch of little world building hints at whats going on without giving it away. Def leaves with questions in the best way
July 12, 2024
Post apocalyptic Juno ?
“Don’t mind if I do!”
“Don’t mind if I do!”
February 27, 2024
Intriguing start, will keep an eye out for volume 2. (Also, I keep wanting the title to say Farthest instead of Furthest but that's just the copy editor in me.)
February 17, 2025
This was a weird one. Post apocalyptic world where all the adults vanish, and groups of kids called "families" run the streets. You don't get many answers as to what is going on. Just a ton of weird stuff. Not sure I fully understood what the authors were trying to do.
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