I can’t really tell, and the comic isn’t incredibly helpful since there are absolutely no words, no set-up, or nothing to help me make sense of what’s going on, other than vague images.
It takes place in either some sort of survivor research center, a quarantine camp, or the South American jungle. Rather than color, this one is in black, white, and vibrant red. “Sacrificing the Few for the Many” is also done in painted style (which you’d expect since it has the same artist as “Death as a Gift”) and is also very pretty to look at. The story is told solely through images, and while short, is at least nice to look at. There are no words spoken, since most people don’t talk to themselves when they’re all alone, and only a few narrative speech bubbles. It’s beautiful, stark, and features what is probably the most plausible ending for a lone survivor in any apocalypse-type situation. This portion of the comic, jarringly, looks as though it was painted rather than colored.
Robert Neville is the last survivor of New York City, Jinghua Xu is the last surviving person in Hong Kong. “Death as a Gift” has none of the problems of “Losing Voice.” Whereas Dr. Three of these stories, “Losing Voice,” “Death as a Gift,” and “Sacrificing the Few for the Many,” are available as PDF versions on the I Am Legend website, which is how I’m reading them as we speak. I Am Legend: Awakening contains five stories: “Losing Voice: Ethan’s Story” by Steve Niles and Bill Sienkiewicz “Death as a Gift” and “Sacrificing the Few for the Many” by Dawn Thomas and Jason Chan “Isolation” by Mark Protosevich and David Levy and “Fighting Change” by Richard Christian Matheson (that name sounds familiar…) and David Levy. It’s a free comic book, which makes it one of the nicer freebies ever made available for the general public for a movie launch, though not as good as the Night Watch poster or the Ravenous beef jerky sticks I got once. To further sell the upcoming movie I Am Legend, which I doubt no one here has heard of, considering I only see the commercial every 15 minutes on television, Warner Brothers has launched a promotional comic book with the help of Vertigo featuring six stories set in the I Am Legend continuity, detailing the stories of other survivors.
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