Come for the apocalypse, stay for the allegory.

The Eternaut, Netflix's latest science fiction series, is an adaptation of a late 1950s Argentinian comic by the writer Hector German Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano Lopez.

The initially apolitical Oesterheld "rebooted" the story in 1969 with artist Alberto Breccia at a time of rising political tension in his home country and inserted stronger allegorical themes into the story.