Another dystopian apocalyptic scenario: tons of people suddenly disappear and technology no longer works. The main character of Afterworld, Russell Shoemaker, was in NYC when disaster struck and spends the entire series struggling to return to his home in Seattle. Unfortunately even though the reason for the strange event is explained, it really needed another season to tie all the loose threads. There are interesting scenarios: how people explain the event, who has power in this new world, how those with more knowledge are still limited by circumstances, what effect the disaster had on those that served-physically and psychologically. Sometimes important details can get lost because it gets revealed in a blink-and-you-may-miss-it moment. Some scenarios strained credibility regardless of explanations: inexplicable Quantum Leap moments, kids acting like Jedis, underground electric people…just, no, not even in an apocalyptic scenario. Overall despite visual limitations of computer animated motion comic, I found that the simple illustration served the complex narrative well by focusing on the substance and not the flash.