A brave new dystopia

Ball Peen Hammer by Adam Rapp. Yikes.

This is a short graphic novel, quickly read, unless you find it too disturbing to finish.

So what have we got? There's an artist guitar player sleeping in what seems to be a basement with a toilet that doesn't flush when a very, very large man in a gas mask climbs out of a manhole in the floor and heads up the stairs and out into the world. Some vague violence ensues, and he returns to his manhole. The guitar player has awoken and finds new stuff in the basement--there's a typewriter, inside of which is hiding a gun...

Part of the fun of reading this bleak, brutal book is learning about this odd world--its police state, the infection, and the jobs assigned to the guitarist and the man with the typewriter--which is why I'll tell you no more.