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The Eternaut (included in the Humble Book Bundle Forbidden Books) is amazing. Although it shows its age in certain aspects (it just won an Eisner Award, but it was first published in the 50s in Argentina), it is quite powerful and disturbing. It is the story of an alien invasion. The weapons of the invaders are so powerful that the Earth is lost almost from the very beginning; at the same time, those weapons are poorly adapted to the physical conditions of our planet, so there is a group of survivors who manage to escape now and again from apparently inescapable dangers. When I first read it, I wondered if it had influenced Kirkman when writing The Walking Dead, but the first English version was publised last year, so I guess that wasn't the case. Highly recommended, especially for those of you who are interested in Latinoamerican culture.
I prefer bundles with graphic novels and one-shots to bundles that contain mostly first volumes of long series (and Megahex and Angry Youth Comix were on my wishlist), so, as ATDrake would say, this an auto-buy for me.
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