If you’ve read The Road then this does an excellent job of literally painting a picture of the dark apocalypse and inhumanity the book gets into. There are pages and pages where there is little text but instead bleak and gross depictions of what is described in the book and the boy and his papa try to make it south and survive cannibals and the harsh cold weather. I feel like you definitely still need to read the book to fully understand the story but the graphic adaption does a good job of visually depicting it.