Scout's Honor
A post-nuclear cult built its entire religion around a Ranger Scout manual — and one faithful young scout is about to uncover the lie at its heart.
📖 AfterShock Comics • Started 2020
Imagine a world where the Boy Scouts won — and became a ruthless, all-encompassing religion. Scout’s Honor, from writer David Pepose and artist Luca Casalanguida (with colors by Matt Milla and letters by Carlos M. Mangual), is set in the ashes of a nuclear war, where survivors crawled out of their bunkers clutching a single relic as their holy scripture: an old Ranger Scout manual. Its tenets become law — merit badges granted to young troops, women kept at home, obedience demanded without question.
Generations later, a star pupil named Kit has devoted her life to the Ranger Scouts, thriving in the harsh survivalism needed to conquer the radioactive Colorado Badlands. But when she unearths a terrible secret dating back to the Ranger Scouts’ very creation, Kit’s entire belief system comes crashing down. To find the truth, she must risk everything on a dangerous quest — one that transforms her from the perfect scout into the movement’s most dangerous heretic.
Blessed with the kinetic, B-movie energy of a Fallout game and the institutional critique of a political thriller, Scout’s Honor is The Handmaid’s Tale with merit badges. Published by AfterShock in 2020-2021 and praised by IGN and Syfy as one of the most compelling genre books of its year, it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing that rewards every reader who digs past the survival adventure surface.
Perfect for fans of Planet of the Apes, The Hunger Games, and Mad Max.
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