The Last American

The Last American
The Last American issue 3 cover by Mike McMahon 1991
Publication information
Publisher Epic Comics
Schedule Monthly
Format Mini-series
Genre
Publication date December 1990 - March 1991
No. of issues 4
Creative team
Created by John Wagner
Alan Grant
Mike McMahon
Written by John Wagner
Alan Grant
Artist(s) Mike McMahon

The Last American is a four-issue comic book mini-series released by Marvel's Epic imprint in 1990. It was written by John Wagner and Alan Grant with art by Mike McMahon.

Publication history

Wagner wrote the first two parts and Grant the last two.[1] Grant has said that this was done because it could not have been done any other way, "Together with Chopper in "Oz", it brought the crisis in John's and my partnership to a crescendo."[2] Concluding "The only time we ever did alternate episodes was on Last American, when our partnership was teetering on its last legs anyway. If we hadn't done it that way, it still wouldn't have been published today, we argued so much about it."[3]

Plot

Twenty years after a global nuclear conflict, one man, Ulysses S. Pilgrim, is released from suspended animation to see what remains. It is unclear why nuclear war occurred or who started it but the devastation is immense. The protagonist is joined by three robot companions who accompany him on his journey to discover if he is, in fact, the last American alive.

Collected editions

The series was collected by Com.x as a trade paperback in 2004 and by Rebellion in 2017.

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ 2000 AD Review - Alan Grant Interview part 6 Archived 2012-07-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ 2000 AD Review - Alan Grant Interview part 8 Archived 2005-04-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ 2000 AD Review - Alan Grant Interview part 3 Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine.

References

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