along with most of its population, only few people survived the catastrophe and an ice age that followed it. But they didn't become bloodthirsty savages. Quite the opposite: in many ways they are much better people than their ancestors were. There are no wars in their world, also people of the new era are kind and intelligent.

Zig-zagged in ShootAround, where a girl's basketball team facing a Zombie Apocalypse enjoys it far more than they should; sometimes, however, the comic can get a lot darker about it.

At face value, Stand Still, Stay Silent has a Just Before the End sequence focused on people who end up surviving The End of the World as We Know It, then jumps to 90 years After the End, during which humanity has hadplenty of time to recover and the settlements we get to see in the end of the prologue and the first three chapters are the better-off ones. However, the less cosy aspect peeks just below the surface, with some characters originating from a place where small settlements sometimes just plain disappeared and the story mostly happening in the Forbidden Zone that fell victim to the apocalypse and still contains remnants of failed attempts at preventing its spread and later failed reconquest of the lands by the descendants of those who used to live there.

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Tornadoes actually are this in Real Life, for anyone not in the damage track - and since even for the very worst tornadoes, the damage track is no more than a couple