I Am Legend: Awakening is a graphic novel consisting of five different stories. It is a spinoff of the 2007 film, I Am Legend.
Animated versions of the novel’s stories, Death As A Gift, Isolation, Sacrificing the Few for the Many and Shelter were included on the special features of the 2007 film’s DVD release.
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[show_hide title=”Expand to read the plot of Isolation”]ADX Florence, Colorado, USA, the most secure prison facility in the United States. During the early stages of the KV outbreak, a prison guard enters warden Halloran’s office. He informs him that all the prisoners have been loaded into the buses, ” ‘Cept him of course.” The warden then signs a document at his desk, telling the guard to “show him no compassion.” As prison buses carrying Halloran, prisoners and guards are driving into the mountains, away from the prison, he says in a voiceover, “Even now, in this time of darkness, he does not deserve it!”
The story then shifts to John Edward Lord, an imprisoned terrorist who was deliberately left behind at the prison to die, with no information on the outbreak. John is left alone in his cell with no food or water, screaming in rage in the deserted prison.
At a military base in Fort Lee, Virginia, the general reports to the colonel that Colorado has been declared a hostile territory. It is then reported that contact with the convoy carrying Halloran has been lost, and the order is given for Colorado’s entire power grid to be shut down.
In ADX Florence, after three days locked in his cell, dehydrated and starving, as the Colorado power grid is shut down, the electronic lock for John’s cell deactivates, freeing him. After drinking from the prison’s water supply, John stocks up on ammunition. Planning to start a new life in the wilderness and finish his book, John flees the prison in a stolen SUV, and drives off into the sunset.
In the night, while driving through the desert, John comes across the wrecked and overturned prison buses from ADX Florence, and the mangled corpse of Halloran. When John gets out of the SUV to investigate, a Darkseeker jumps down from atop one of the wrecks at him, prompting him to shoot it. It is then revealed that the wrecks are infested with Darkseekers. As John flees in his SUV from the Darkseeker hordes, he, narrating the story, explains that the act of terrorism he was imprisoned for was meant as patriotism; he believed that his beloved America had become corrupt and bankrupt, and that it needed to be destroyed and then reborn.
John flees back to ADX Florence, pursued by the Darkseekers. The Darkseekers corner him, and John engages them in a last stand.[/show_hide]
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[show_hide title=”Expand to read the plot of Shelter”]In New Delhi, India, during the outbreak of KV, Vatsala and her family are preparing to evacuate to a shelter. That night, Vatsala sneaks out of her home and into the chaotic streets of the city, and sees her boyfriend, Pritam, atop an overturned bus. As the two embrace, Pritam begs Vatsala to return to the shelter without him, and promises that he will be waiting when Vatsala comes out.
Vatsala returns to her home, and, through a secret passage in the house, goes through the underground network of tunnels to the shelter. However, her father, fearing she may be infected, refuses to let her in for 48 hours, declaring that if Vatsala is ill, “We’ve already lost you.” Vatsala swears to herself to never forgive her father for this.
Vatsala spends the next 48 hours waiting outside the shelter with food and water left for her. She begins to suffer the early symptoms of KV, but is in denial that she is infected. Eventually, Vatsala turns into a Darkseeker and tries to break into the shelter. The door to the shelter unexpectedly opens to reveal vicious-looking monsters instead of her family. In a fit of rage, Vatsala brutally kills the creatures, then, hungry, devours their remains.
Remembering Pritam will be waiting for her, Vatsala goes out into the desolate city, to the overturned bus. There, she is greeted by the now-Darkseeker Pritam, and leads him back to the shelter for food. There, it is revealed that one of Vatsala’s brothers is still alive, and that the creatures in the shelter Vatsala killed were actually her family, who she was hallucinating as monsters. Vatsala and Pritam, seeing the former’s brother as a monster, attack and viciously kill him, unaware that he was actually Vatsala’s brother.[/show_hide]
