The central character in REVOLVER is a young man by the name
of Sam. Like the unnamed narrator of FIGHT CLUB, Sam lives a life that seem
detached of much meaning. He works in an office in Seattle, spends his nights
drinking at bars, and uses a lot of his free time to purchase needless clutter.
However, while on his way to work one morning, the world suddenly seems to
change. The stock market crashes, airplanes are flying into buildings all over
the U.S., a bird-flu pandemic is sweeping Asia, and there are reports that
radioactive material in Russia has disappeared. This is later followed by dirty-bombs
exploding in major cities and the destruction of the city of Seattle itself.
Sam wants to survive, but doesn’t know if he has what it takes. But when he
wakes the next morning, the world has returned the way it was before. All the
terrible things that happened have not occurred. The only thing that is
different is that Sam remembers everything. This revolving between the two
worlds continues every time Sam goes to sleep. He falls to sleep in one world,
but awakens in the next. The skills and knowledge that Sam gains in the
post-apocalyptic world are carried with him into this former life in the other
world and he begins using that knowledge to benefit others. It’s never
explained why or how, but Sam is a Revolver living in two different worlds.
Although I liked REVOLVER, I was rather disappointed by it.
The art isn’t that great. The characters are flat and much of the dialogue and monologue
is stifled. There isn’t a whole lot of originality going on. Things that happen
in the story are never explained. The story doesn’t really get interesting
until about 3/4ths of the way through and just when the reader becomes invested,
the story ends on a kind of cliffhanger. Despite this, I still enjoyed
REVOLVER. At the end of the book, I wanted more because I wanted to know how
things finally turned out. Had the book been completely bad, this would not
have been the case.
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