History ComicBook / ApocalypseNerd

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, and published and distributed by Dark Horse Comics, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who is returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo's friend in the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest Cascade mountains.]] On their way back they have to steer clear of high-speed traffic and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay alive. Perry and Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hideout, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes, [[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

In the introduction, Bagge tells that he wrote this story because then-president George W. Bush had lumped North Korea with Iraq and Iran as the "Axis of Evil," and Kim Jong Il responded by saying that North Korea has the capability to launch a nuclear-tipped missile as far as Seattle. He also states that while everyone has fantasies of being a kick-ass survivalist, this story tackles that fantasy by placing an average WhiteCollarWorker in [[IDidWhatIHadToDo a situation where he has to stay alive by any means necessary.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: After Perry kills a couple living in a well-stocked house, he suggests taking their baby and giving him to someone else. Midge tells him to leave the house while she [[MercyKill kills him.]]]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: While spying on the women's camp, Dylan starts pleasuring himself in front of Perry and Gordo who leave to give him some privacy, and in Gordo's case, because he finds the women unappealing.

* {{Nerd}}: Perry worked as an engineer in a tech firm in Seattle.

* DeathOfAChild: After [[spoiler: the raid on the women's commune, Midge kills Dylan, a teenaged boy, thinking he was going to kill Perry]] later [[spoiler: she kills a baby after she told Perry to go into a well supplied house and steal their supplies, and he killed the parents when they attacked him.]]

** Dylan states that the North Korean missile stranded him with father, [[spoiler: Ernest]] and his boyfriend, [[spoiler: McNeely]] while his mom was in California, which was unaffected.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: As survivors fled Seattle, they stopped along the way to loot any building, unoccupied or not. Gangs comprised of stranded farm workers, white supremacists, and Native Americans are said to be rampaging across the countryside.[[spoiler: Perry thinks McNeelyville is perfectly safe but is looted and burned to the ground by a local Indigenous tribe.]]

* ApocalypticLogistics: Deep in the woods, McNeelyville has clean water, and orchard, a chicken farm, electricity, and internet via wifi. Justified as it is occupied by engineers who set it up as an experiment to create a self-sufficient commune before North Korea launched that missile.

** [[spoiler: McNeely and Ernest]] were gunned down during the [[spoiler: Native American invasion.]]

* ChekhovsGun: When Perry is being held up at gunpoint by the cabin's owner, Gordon wanted to keep the deceased owner's gun, but Perry wanted to dispose of it due to possible radiation. Later, [[spoiler: Gordo gives the gun after the Native American gang burns down McNeelyville. Later Perry tries to use the gun to [[DrivenToSuicide stop being Midge's "pet".]]]]

* EvilIsPetty: After [[spoiler: the destruction of McNeelyville,]] Dylan enacts brutal revenge against the women who beat him up [[spoiler: by leading Gordo and some rednecks they teamed up with to the women's camp where [[RapePillageAndBurn they rape the inhabitants and intend to steal their supplies and burn down the camp.]]]]

* GilliganCut: Gordo believes that McNeelyville is vulnerable to attack, Ernest and Perry reassure him them that although gangs are a problem, a weapons drill will be performed in a couple of days to make sure they are ready. Less than twenty-four hours later, [[spoiler: the camp is on fire, and the occupants are being systematically slaughtered by the marauding Native American tribe.]]

* RapePillageAndBurn: McNeelyville [[spoiler: is attacked by a gang of Native Americans, they kill everyone they can aim at, steal their food and supplies, and burn down the camp.]]
** [[spoiler: After the destruction of McNeelyville, Gordo, Dylan, and two rednecks descend on the feminist camp, and proceed to rape and kill the inhabitants of the farmhouse, and steal their supplies.]]

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, and published and distributed by Dark Horse Comics, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who is returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo's friend in the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest Cascade mountains.]] On their way back they have to steer clear of high-speed traffic and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay alive. Perry and Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hideout, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes,[[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

In the introduction, Bagge tells that he wrote this story because then-president George W. Bush had lumped North Korea with Iraq and Iran as the "Axis of Evil," and Kim Jong Il responded by saying that North Korea has the capability to launch a nuclear-tipped missile as far as Seattle. He also states that while everyone has fantasies of being a kick-ass survivalist, this story tackles that fantasy by placing an average SalaryMan in [[IDidWhatIHadToDo a situation where he has to stay alive by any means necessary.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. After [[spoiler: the raid on the women's commune, Midge kills Dylan, a teenaged boy, thinking he was going to kill Perry]] later [[spoiler: she kills a baby after she told Perry to go into a well supplied house and steal their supplies, and he killed the parents when they attacked him.]]
** FridgeHorror sets in when you realize that among the thousands and thousands that died when Seattle was nuked were an innumerable amount of children.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: As survivors fled Seattle, they stopped along the way to loot any building, unoccupied or not. Gangs comprised of stranded farm workers, white supremacists, and Native Americans are said to be rampaging across the countryside.[[spoiler: Perry thinks McNeely Vile is perfectly safe but is looted and burned to the ground by a local Indigenous tribe.]]

* ApocalypticLogistics: Deep in the woods, McNeely Vile has clean water, and orchard, a chicken farm, electricity, and internet via wifi. Justified as it is occupied by engineers who set it up as an experiment to create a self-sufficient commune before North Korea launched that missile.

** [[spoiler: [=McNeely=] and Ernest]] were gunned down during the [[spoiler: Native American invasion.]]

* ChekhovsGun: When Perry is being held up at gunpoint by the cabin's owner, Gordon wanted to keep the deceased owner's gun, but Perry wanted to dispose of it due to possible radiation. Later, [[spoiler: Gordo gives the gun after the Native American gang burns down [=McNeley=] Vile. Later Perry tries to use the gun to [[DrivenToSuicide stop being Midge's "pet".]]]]

** Dylan states that the North Korean missile stranded him with father, [[spoiler: Ernest]] and his boyfriend, [[spoiler: [=McNeely=]]] while his mom was in California, which was unaffected.

* EvilIsPetty: After [[spoiler: the destruction of [=McNely=] Vile,]] Dylan enacts brutal revenge against the women who beat him up [[spoiler: by leading Gordo and some rednecks they teamed up with to the women's camp where [[RapePillageAndBurn they rape the inhabitants and intend to steal their supplies and burn down the camp.]]]]

* GilliganCut: Gordo believes that [=McNeely=] Vile is vulnerable to attack, Ernest and Perry reassure him them that although gangs are a problem, a weapons drill will be performed in a couple of days to make sure they are ready. Less than twenty-four hours later, [[spoiler: the camp is on fire, and the occupants are being systematically slaughtered by the marauding Native American tribe.]]

* RapePillageAndBurn: McNeely Vile [[spoiler: is attacked by a gang of Native Americans, they kill everyone they can aim at, steal their food and supplies, and burn down the camp.]]
** [[spoiler: After the destruction of McNeely Ville, Gordo, Dylan, and two rednecks descend on the feminist camp, and proceed to rape and kill the inhabitants of the farmhouse, and steal their supplies.]]

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, and published and distributed by Dark Horse Comics, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest Cascade mountains.]] On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive. Perry and Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hide out, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes,[[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

In the introduction, Bagge tells that he wrote this story because then president George W. Bush had lumped North Korea with Iraq and Iran as the "Axis of Evil," and Kim Jong Il responded by saying that North Korea has the capability to launch a nuclear tipped missile as far as Seattle. He also states that while everyone has fantasies of being a kick ass survivalist, this story tackles that fantasy by placing an average SalaryMan in [[IDidWhatIHadToDo a situation where he has to stay alive by any means necessary.]]

* ActionSurvivor: Considering that he had to deal with roving gangs, starvation, and other horrors, Perry becomes and experienced, jaded survivalist by the end of the story.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: As survivors fled Seattle, they stopped along the way to loot any building, unoccupied or not. Gangs comprised of stranded farm workers, white supremacists, and Native Americans are said to be rampaging across the countryside.[[spoiler: Perry thinks McNeely Vile is perfectly safe, but is looted and burned to the ground by a local Indigenous tribe.]]

* ApocalypticLogistics: Deep in the woods, McNeely Vile has clean water, and orchard, a chicken farm, electricity, and internet via wifi. Justified as it is occupied by engineers who set it up as an experiment to create a self sufficient commune before North Korea launched that missile.

** In what seems like a more mass-attack and accepted version of a HomophobicHateCrime, Dylan and Gordo's [[spoiler: raiding party goes to a feminist camp with the intent of killing lesbians and kill everyone, save for Midge who snuck out.]]

* ChekhovsGun: When Perry is being held up at gunpoint by the cabin's owner, Gordon wanted to keep the deceased owner's gun, but Perry wanted to dispose of it due to possible radiation. Later, [[spoiler: Gordo gives the gun after the Native American gang burns down [=McNeley=] Vile. Latwr Perry tries to use the gun to [[DrivenToSuicide stop being Midge's "pet".]]]]

* CrazySurvivalist: By the end of the story, [[spoiler: Perry becomes and avid hunter able to support himself, Midge, and their incoming baby, and even murders a cop who may be looking for him.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Happens twice to Perry, first [[spoiler: after leaving the cabin following an argument with Gordo, Perry realizeds he's screwed by himself and lies on the road hoping to get run over.]] When [[spoiler: Lynn forces Perry to sleep chained to a doghouse in the rain, he figures he might as well just end it.]]
** At the very end, [[spoiler: Gordo tries to blackmail a pregnant Midge into letting him stay with her and Perry, she refuses after she notices he's dying of radiation sickness. He's about to put himself down, when Perry kills him thinking he was about to attack Midge.]]

* ExperimentedInCollege: Midge mentions that she was in college when she went through a bad break up, and someone suggested she go up to Lynn's commune. She was involved with another girl, but has since broken up with her.

** After being humiliated again, Perry mutters to Midge he wants to slash Lynn's throat. That night [[spoiler: Dylan and some rednecks break into the farm house where they rape and slash the throats of the residents.]]
** Lynn tells Midge to not make babies with Perry, and later [[spoiler: Midge kills a baby, because they can't afford to share the supplies. By the end of the story, she's pregnant.]]
* GilliganCut: Gordo believes that [=McNeely=] Vile is vulnerable to attack, Ernest and Perry reassure him them that although gangs are a problem, a weapons drill will be performed in a couple of days to make sure they are ready. Less than twenty four hours later, [[spoiler: the camp is on fire, and the occupants are being systematically slaughtered by the marauding Native American tribe.]]

* RapePillageAndBurn: McNeely Vile [[spoiler: is attacked by a gang of Native americans, they kill everyone they can aim at, steal their food and supplies, and burn down the camp.]]

* TookALevelInBadAss: At the begining of the story, Perry was griping about his ex girlfriend, dreams of quitting his job as a programer, and mentions he's jealous of Gordo's self employment as a weed dealer. By the end, he is a [[CrazySurvivalist jaded survivalist]] who [[spoiler: thinks nothing of having accidentally killed Gordo.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: After Perry kills a couple living in a well stocked house, he suggests taking their baby and giving him to someone else. Midge tells him to leave the house while she [[MercyKill kills him.]]]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: [=McNeely=] and Ernest]] were gunned down during the [[spoiler: Native American invasion.]]
** Dylan and Gordo's [[spoiler: raiding party goes to feminist camp and kill everyone, save for Midge who snuck out.]]

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, and published and distributed by Dark Horse Comics, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the [[TheOtherRainFCascade mountains.]] On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive. Perry and Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hide out, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes,[[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

* ApocalypseHow: Level 0, the story takes place in the [[TheOtherRainForest forests of the Cascade mountains]], Seattle is said to be a radioactive wasteland and the U.S. government has quarantined the area to prevent any radioactive survivors from contaminating the rest of the country, which is said to have been unaffected.

* ChekovsGun: When Perry is being held up at gunpoint by the cabin's owner, Gordon wanted to keep the deceased owner's gun, but Perry wanted to dispose of it due to possible radiation. Later, [[spoiler: Gordo gives the gun after the Native American gang burns down [=McNeley=] Vile. Latwr Perry tries to use the gun to [[DrivenToSuicide stop being Midge's "pet".]]]]

* {{Squick:}} The panels showing a bottomless Perry after he soiled himself after Gordo killed the man holding him up.

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, and published and distributed by Dark Horse Comics, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the Cascade mountains. On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive. Perry Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hide out, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes,[[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Ernest and McNeely]] were gunned down during the [[spoiler: Native American invasion.]]

* BrickJoke: While staying in the cabin, Perry's [[PottyEmergency]] results in him farting a storm. When he and Midge reach the cabin, she comments that it smells like old farts.

* ChekovsGun: While rumaging in the trailer park, Gordo looks for a gun. Later, [[spoiler: Gordo gives Perry a gun after telling him to go his own way during the Native American attack.]] After that, [[spoiler: Perry tries to use the gun to [[DrivenToSuicide stop being Midge's "pet".]]]]

** Dylan states that the North Korean missile stranded him with father, [[spoiler: Ernest]] and his boyfriend, [[spoiler: McNeely]] while his mom was in California, which was unaffected.

** After venturing out of the cabin, Perry and Gordo stumble onto an abandoned trailer park, where they find a dead old man, and two guys fighting to the death over a 7up. The survivor tells Perry and Gordo he had to resolve to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] after a mob of refugees invaded the trailer park and stole all the food and supplies.

* ICallItVera: Gordo refrs to his rifle as "Betsy."

* EvilIsPetty: After [[spoiler: the destruction of [=McNely=] Vile,]] Dylan enacts brutal revenge against the women who beat him up [[spoiler: by leading Gordo and some rednecks they teamed up with to the women's camp where they rape the inhabitants and intend to steal their supplies.]]

* GilliganCut: Gordo believes that McNeely Vile is vulnerable to attack, Ernest and Perry reassure him them that although gangs are a problem, a weapons drill will be performed in a couple of days to make sure they are ready. Less than twenty four hours later, [[spoiler: the camp is on fire, and the occupants are being systematically slaughtered by the marauding Native American tribe.]]

** Midge kills [[a baby whose parents were killed by Perry.]]

** WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: After Perry kills a couple living in a well stocked house, he suggests taking their baby and giving him to someone else. Midge tells him to leave the house while she [[MercyKill kills him.]]]]

** Dylan states that the North Korean missile stranded him with father, [[spoiler: Ernest]] and his boyfriend, [spoiler: [McNeely]] while his mom was in California, which was unaffected.

* ForeShadowing: After going back to the cabin, the original owner and his family come back, Gordo shoots him dead, and Perry notices he was already dying of radiation sickness. In the end, [[Gordo goes back to the cabin, hoping to live there, Midge refuses because of his radiation sickness, and Perry kills him. May count as DeathByIrony.]]
** After being humiliated again, Perry mutters to Midge he wants to slash Lynn's throat. That night [[Spoiler: Dylan and some Rednecks break into the farm house where they rape and slash the throats of the residents.]]
** Lynn tells Midge to not make babies with Perry, and later [[spoiler: Midge kills a baby, after Perry stabs the parents, because they can't afford to share the supplies.]]

** Gordo kills the cabin's original owner, who was dying of radiation sickness. [[spoiler: Ironically, Perry kills Gordo under similar circumstances.]]

** [[spoiler: After the destruction of McNeely Vile, Gordo, Dylan, and two rednecks descend on the feminist camp, and proceed to rape and kill the inhabitants of the farmhouse, and steal their supplies.]]

Midge herself uses the gun [[spoiler: to kill Dylan and the two rednecks who killed the other women, and who thought were going to kill Perry.]]

** [[spoiler: After the destruction of McNeely Vile, Gordo, Dylan, and two rednecks descend on the feminist camp, and proceed to rape and kill the inhabitants of the farmhouse, and steal their supplies.]]

* GilliganCut: Gordo believes that McNeely Vile is vulnerable to attack, Ernest and Perry reassure him them that although gangs are a problem, a weapons drill will be performed in a couple of days to make sure they are ready. Less than twenty four hours later, the camp is on fire, and the occupants are being systematically slaughtered by the marauding Native American tribe.
* InvadingRefugees: The trailer park occupant who killed the other one tells Gordo and Perry that things became desperate when a large mob of survivors from Seattle descended on them and stole anything and everything that could be used to survive.
* RapePillageAndBurn: McNeely Vile is attacked by a gang of Native americans, they kill everyone they can aim at, steal their food and supplies, and burn down the camp.
** After the destruction of McNeely Vile, Gordo, Dylan, and two rednecks descend on the feminist camp, and proceed to rape and kill the inhabitants of the farmhouse, and steal their supplies.
* ProperlyParanoid: While staying in the trailer park, Perry suspects that the lone occupant may not be satisfied with eating Billy, and could then bash their heads while they slept so he can steal Gordo's truck and gun.

** Perry tells Midge he stabbed the occupants of a house because they attacked him, [[spoiler: after she told him to venture inside to see if there was any food they could steal.]]

* ApocalypseAnarchy: As survivors fled Seattle, they stopped along the way to loot any building, unoccupied or not. Later on, McNeely Vile is attacked by a band of Native Americans.
* ApocalypseHow: Level 0, the story takes place in the [[TheOtherRainForest forests of Cascade mountains]], Seattle is said to be a radioactive wasteland and the U.S. government has quarantined the area to prevent any radioactive survivors from contaminating the rest of the country, which is said to have been unaffected.
* ApocalypticLogistics: Deep in the woods, McNeely Vile has clean water, and orchard, a chicken farm, electricity, and internet via wifi. Justified as it is occupied by engineers who set it up as an experiment to create a self sufficient commune before North Korea launched that missile.

In the introduction, Bagge tells that he wrote this story because then president George W. Bush had lumped North Korea with Iraq and Iran as the "Axis of Evil," and Kim Jong Il responded by saying that North Korea has the capability to launch a nuclear tipped missile as far as Seattle. He also states that while everyone has fantasies of being a kick ass survivalist, this story tackles that fantasy by placing an average SalaryMan in [[IDidWhatIHadToDo a situation where he has to stay alive by any means necessary.]]

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the Cascade mountains. On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive. Perry Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better. When they decide to venture out from their mountain hide out, they find numerous survivors who tell them that things are nowhere near being restored to normal, and when they stumble into some survivalist communes,[[HopeSpot things seem to get better, but they don't.]]

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the Cascade mountains. On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive, and Perry Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better.

A story written and illustrated by Peter Bagge, it tells the story of Perry and his friend Gordo, who are returning to Seattle after camping in a cabin belonging to Gordo friend in the Cascade mountains. On their way back they have to steer clear of high speed traffic, and find out that North Korea nuked Seatle, and law and order has collapsed as bands of refugees do what they can to stay to stay alive, and Perry Gordo decide to go back to the cabin to wait until things get better.