I absolutely love the Steve Skroce art in this series which runs the gamut of post-apocalyptic cliches from cannibals to beautiful killer robots. Geoff Darrow provided some of the variant covers and his work is absolutely a reference point for this series.
The core plot is the downfall of a corrupt survival bunker that was meant to allow for the rebirth of the American system after disaster but corrupted by capitalism fell into decadence and irrelevance. Definitely a story for a Trump-era America.
Resistance members in the bunker have made contact with another centre they think can assist their cause. But like every dystopia there are no real heroes and no real allies. Only our protagonists can form a better society and it will be built on the ruins of the old.
The fight scenes are all fantastic, this is where the art really shines with non-stop kinetic action. When the setting shifts to the West Coast the story takes a turn for the theme park surreal.
It's really the way the action is linked together than is problematic, Carolyn is the real protagonist of the story with a traumatic backstory that is explored out of the course of the story. Everyone is flat with a "tell not show" approach to what is happening to them.
Only Carolyn suffers true highs and lows of emotion and then seven issues doesn't allow them to properly be explored because everything is simply going too fast.
Every other death, maiming or debasement is simply a storybeat to be reversed in the next issue, robbing the story of consequence.
The destruction of the last resources of humanity provides a curiously downbeat note to the story, surviving has to be enough; thriving is naive or utopian even in this fictional story.
Post-Americana is a hell of an action flick but it is ultimately empty and unsatisfying outside of that action.