At last, I was able to read the Eternaut. It took me years to get an edition in Spanish which wasn't printed in microscopic font.
This is a recent Spanish release by Planeta Cómic. There is an English translation by Fantagraphics.
Anyway, the Eternaut is an epic science fiction, apocalyptic, end of the world type of story. Very well written. Dense with text: dialogue, thought bubbles, and narration, but it never gets boring or tiring. At the character level, this comic is about survival, bravery, and resistance. But if you look at the big picture, you can see some political undertones, Cold War, and nuclear power as well as dictatorships and tyrannies. I guess there are many ways to interpret the story. Personally, I couldn't stop thinking what I would do if I was in the Eternaut's world. Would I persevere or give up with the first challenge? Would it be worth living after the apocalypse?
Negatives: obviously, the depiction of women, more or less useless, emotional, incapable of defending themselves, with a limited ornamental role except when they cook your food.
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