MISC. MANGA, *The Legend Of Mother Sarah

Katsuhiro Otomo(the creator of a little something called Akira)wrote an ongoing manga in the early 90, a post-apocalyptic drama given the English title, The Legend Of Mother Sarah. Takumi Nagayasu provided the artwork for a series that went on for 15 years, leading to a total of nine graphic novels, only one of which was actually translated into English. Dark Horse Comics released it as most manga in the U.S. from the 90s as a comic book mini-seriesl, which was eventually collected into a single volume called Tunnel Town.

In the future, nuclear wars caused the human race to abandon Earth to seek shelter in floating colonies. A plan to restart the planet's habitability would cause a good portion of the existing population still on Earth to die. This re-genesis leads to civil war between two factions wanting to save either save mankind or the Earth. In the aftermath, a lone survivor named Sarah searches the wastelands for her missing three children. Along the way, Sarah helps out the innocent where she kind from corrupt outcasts.

The manga continues with Sarah coming to the shocking disovery what happened to her children in the wake of Earth's 2nd armageddon(a rarity in most sci-fi stories). Because of the lengthy amount of time it took for the manga to be completed, its evidential that an anime adaptation never arised from it, especially for how long it was for Otomo to make the Steamboy film. Even though the complete saga is not available in English, it is a worthy trek through used comic bins to give this beginning chapter a look.