Michael Berry of the San Francisco Chronicle plugs A.D. in his pre-Comicon graphic novel round-up, "The Best in Comic Books":
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon; 208 pages; $24.95; on sale Aug. 18) chronicles a disaster closer to home. Josh Neufeld follows a half dozen denizens of the Big Easy as they choose between fleeing the impending hurricane and hunkering down to wait out the storm. Acts of folly and bravery are depicted, and Neufeld makes a striking political point without tipping over into didacticism.