Zembla Book

Ennis' post-apocalyptic western. What part of that discourages anyone from reading this?

What's it about?
A catastrophic event occurs when Earth accidentally ends up too close to the sun for a day, killing almost everything and forever changing the world. Years later a group of survivors is in real trouble, almost guaranteed to die until a lone wanderer saves them. The lone wanderer? Just a pilgrim... (well that's what he says, he's actually an uber-religious killer of bad guys)

Pros:
The story is pretty good. It's a Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic world but with some western and sci-fi horror elements all done in a very Ennis way so yeah, it's pretty damn good.
The artwork by Carlos Ezquerra (RIP) is great as his art usually was.
The characters are very interesting and well written. Pilgrim's quite the bad-ass post apocalyptic warrior.
There's a lot of great action scenes throughout. Ezquerra's art and Ennis' writing always makes a sweet mix for action.
There's a few scenes with horror elements and while I don't know if I'd necessarily call this book a horror comic (though maybe slightly?) it works very well in those scenes.
There's a religion related element throughout the story. So first of all, the story uses fitting Bible verses and it's interesting the way it's done. Second, while I don't 100% agree with it's logic, it is well written. It's Ennis so obviously don't expect wholesome Christian entertainment or anything, the ending of this is actually quite anti-religion but it's written in a way that doesn't feel immature like many anti-religion stories often feel IMO. It's commentary while a bit biased truly feels like a mature writing of thoughts regarding theology and not always overly one-sided.

Cons:
This book is mostly predictable. There was one thing towards the end I didn't expect but most of it, I saw coming.
While Ennis is often funny this book was not. It attempts humor a few times and only made me chuckle once so yeah, the comic relief didn't work for me this time around.
There's 2 times Pilgrim kills a pet (one of those times it's a pupper) and it's never avenged. It only felt necessary to the plot once and even then barely.

Overall:
This book is pretty good. I know some people love post-apocalyptic stuff (I sometimes enjoy it though it's not necessarily a favorite), I would definitely recommend it to that crowd.
I had a few problems with this book but it's mostly pretty good. An interesting story with fantastic art, well written characters and lots of great action.
Fans of Ennis and/or post-apocalyptic stories will like this.

4/5