The cutest disaster preparation guide ever made. ( )

I appreciated the writing style - that resembles to the Victorian one with awkward capitalising and obsolete words - more than the most part of content because is similar to any survivor's guide with only a few speckles of Steampunk in it (a more appropriate title should be "A survivors guide to the Apocalypse with few scattered lefty political remarks"). Foran's illustrations are nice, but transmit a sense of doom and loneliness (no trace of the happy crew here) that I can't find nor in the text nor in the funny sketches.
The initial pages deserve a more in-depth reflection about both the ambiguity of the Community term ("I mean Community to mean "the People who live near you" and not "the People I like and go to the same Conventions as") that you might find a Way to meet your Needs both physical and political.") and the centrifugal versus centripetal force of the disaster.
Professor Calamity's short essay about the Victorian apocalypse offers interesting tidbits about Victorian era catastrophes and few suggestions about the Victorian sense of impending doom.
I can't share intellectually the Killjoy's rosy vision (the victory over the steam Nazis), my actual feelings are better expressed by the phrase: "The end is nigh" the bad one I mean because "The odds of a true Apocalypse—of a lifting of the Veil, of a fresh Start for some Portion of Humanity that you would like to be included in—are slim." ( )