'Snowpiercer: Terminus' Offers First Class Return to the Second Class Struggle [Review]

Long before Snowpiercer was a film starring Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, Le Transperceneige was well known in Europe as a classic of the science-fiction genre. Created by writer Jacques Lob and drawn by Jean-Marc Rochette, the first volume – The Escape – was published in 1982 at the height of the severe global economic recession and the dawn of Thatcherism and Reaganomics on the world stage. The fact that the English translation didn’t arrive until last year, after the greatest post-war ...