Softies: Stuff That Happens After the World Blows Up

Kyle Smeallie’s Softies: Stuff That Happens After the World Blows Up, published by Iron Circus Comics in 2020, is a standalone graphic novel that explores the quiet, human moments following a global catastrophe. Rather than focusing on survival heroics, Smeallie’s story and art center on the tender, awkward, and strangely hopeful connections that form between two soft-hearted survivors in a shattered world. It’s a poignant, offbeat take on post-apocalyptic fiction that prioritizes emotional resonance over spectacle.