Created by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, El Eternauta remains today (half a century after its creation) one of the most important works of science fiction, as well as one of the brightest examples of the ninth art. Claustrophobic, suspenseful, and adventurous, yet also emotional, filled with symbolism and political allegory, it is a demanding and multi-layered work that certainly cannot leave any reader indifferent.
In the second volume, the story and adventures of Juan Salvo and his group come to an end... or do they?

"Gradually, with the loss of his companions, Juan becomes increasingly alone, and his loneliness is not that of a hero, but of a man who loses everything in the face of the cataclysm that destroys his world. In a contrasting parallel to classic hero archetypes like Odysseus, Oesterheld and López present us with an everyday man, a Juan, call him John, Jean, Jan, or Yannis, whose odyssey is not about distant wanderings, but about his effort to return home by crossing his own city without becoming a robot-man, being killed, or disintegrating."
(from the epilogue by Abraham Kawa)