Oblivion Song, Volume 2 by Robert Kirkman

​    I didn’t even try to resist the siren song of the Oblivion Song. In fact, that is a thing within the boos, Oblivion Song calls and one answers. Some more eagerly than others. Societal rejects like Nathan’s brother march right to tis beat.
    There’s a strong undercurrent of the same mentality as Walking Dead had, people who live in a postapocalyptic society are forced to really live for the first time. Not just trudge through the indifferent techheavy impersonal modern world like the ones outside of Oblivion zone, but really engage with their neighbors and their environment in order to just survive, let alone prosper. It’s a sort of fantasy prevalent to certain types of people and there’s social psychology backing behind it, as recently seen in The Next Apocalypse. Preppers love it. A world taken back down to basics. It’s like camping only extreme, though some may argue that forgoing modern conveniences for the sake of recreation is pretty extreme in and off itself.
     Anyway, in this volume we learn more about Oblivion and a lot more about Nathan. Some devastating truths are about to be unveiled. The main theme is the battle between two world and two worldviews as boiled down to the relationship between Nathan and his brother.
     Plenty of action, including creature action. Still not loving the art, but it is pretty entertaining overall. On to book three.