YMMV / Just a Pilgrim

• Complete Monster: Castenado is the brutal and sadistic leader of the buckers, who sends his men to slaughter any group of survivors they see. Decorating his base with the heads of his victims, Castenado also forces other bandits to join his gang, forcing them to endure "initiation", which consists of eating the lips of the dead; wearing "the necklace o' dongs"; putting steel nails through their own skin; killing infants; and raping a goat. Bandits who refuse to go through "initiation" are brutally killed. Castenado has a habit of killing his men for the slightest provocation, at one point ordering them to jump from a helicopter to their deaths and slaughtering them when they refused. Constantly trying to massacre the group of survivors who were guided by the Pilgrim, Castenado managed to burn some of them alive, before he captured a few other survivors and attached them to his helicopters to serve as human shields. As his forces slaughter almost all the survivors, Castenado gleefully tries to kill a 10-year-old Billy, causing Billy to detonate the bomb that kills them both.
• Funny Moments:
  • The guy who got tentacle-raped and inflated until he looked like Violet after she ate a certain piece of gum. His first words after being turned into a ball-man is, "I don't believe this. I just do not believe this. I know it's a dream, and I know I'm going to wake up any minute now." Say that out loud in a bewildered voice, and you'll see what I mean.
  • The four-panel page depicting the Pilgrim and his squad's predicament as they're marooned on the lifeboat. On the first panel there is four of them, and on each succeeding panel there is one less, with the dialogue becoming increasingly bizarre. On the last panel there is only the Pilgrim. His one word? "BURP!"
• Magnificent Bastard: The Pilgrim himself is a former Green Beret, who during one of the missions developed a taste for human flesh and ate a dozen of people, before he was imprisoned. Growing attached to the Bible, after a kind Priest tried to redeem his soul, the Pilgrim decided to wander around the world, save the innocent and punish the "sinners" in a wasteland ravaged by a solar flare. Encountering a group of innocent survivors, The Pilgrim tries to groom the ten-year-old Billy to follow his religion, while manipulating everybody and using the group as a bait to lure the vile Buckers gang to their deaths. Genuinely caring for Billy, the Pilgrim is forced to have the boy sacrifice himself to detonate a bomb and kill the leader of the Buckers. Later encountering the last survivors of the world, the Pilgrim protects them from killer parasites and when tricked by the monsters to travel far away from the survivors—which leads to most of them being killed—the Pilgrim rejects Christianity and saves the last two survivors, killing himself to defeat the parasites, while giving the survivors Billy's diary as "the only book worth to be preserved".
• Squick: The initiation to the Bucker crew. Luckily we're only told, not shown. And even what we're told is a lot to take in, apparently invoving having sex with a billy goat... after the rest of the crew has had their way with it.

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