Shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union, ethnic-based violence led by
Bohdan makes the newly-independent Ukraine start sliding into all-out civil war. Trying to survive, a
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, including a Ukrainian farm girl (Yana Korelenko, who calls herself "Yuri"
when she's disguising herself as a teenage boy), a hard-bitten veteran of the
Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan (Iaroslav
Kossak), a
confused American (John Silver), and five Crimean Tatar brothers (Berkir, Veli, Inalcik, Kayyum, and Ismail Cemilev). But in a country with lost
nuclear weapons just waiting to be found by anyone who comes along, things can only
get more interesting...Better Than It Sounds.
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- Anime Hair: Bohdan is an example, as is Yana. The other characters tend to be more realistic.
- Art Evolution: The style gets more realistic and detailed, and the pages become more tightly filled.
- Blinding Bangs: Yana
- Eloquent In My Native Tongue Played for laughs with the English-speaking John: [1]
- Fish out of Water: John Silver, from Miami
- Gargle Blaster: Iaroslav's ice-distilled vodka
- Genius Bonus: Several.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: subverted by Bohdan, the Big Bad, who has a small, pale, x-shaped scar on his cheekbone.
- Noodle Incident: "Even stupider than that thing with the snowmobile and the ice-distilled vodka..."
- Knight in Sour Armor: Iaroslav, all the way.
- Possible War
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Several Muslim characters drink, which is Truth in Television for some forms of Islam.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Bohdan and Yana both have these. Bohdan's is nearly always accompanied by a Dramatic Wind.
- Scenery Porn: Especially as the art improves.
- Shown Their Work
- Sliding Scale Of Alternate History Plausibility — Type I
- Snowball Fight: Yana uses a snowball as weapon in a potentaily leathal fight.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Yana, in some situations
- Sword Lines: Only with a shotgun being used as a club.
- The Infiltration: Yana does this with the Big Bad 's army to siphon off food.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Bohdan and his sister Anastasiya
- What Measure Is a Non-Badass?: Averted hard. For example, most of the main characters are ordinary civilians who get swept up in various events, and whether or not someone qualifies as a good guy depends on how he treats them.
- What If?: Essentially the whole premise
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