Postal, Volume 1 is free with your ComiXology Unlimited subscription if you get the individual issues, #1 through #4. I was first introduced to this series reading Eden's Fall, which is based on Postal, The Tithe, and Think Tank, three Top Cow titles. Mark Shiffron is the postman of Eden, the son of the mayor. He has a severe variety of Asperger's Syndrome, and Postal is the story of Eden through his eyes and through his actions. He's more than the two fools in The Hidden Fortress, and he's very capable for someone so obviously otherwise-abled.
I'm the father of an autistic son, and I'm always surprised at what he does. Mark Shiffron takes more initiative than a regular person and almost unrealistically more than someone with Asperger's, but that is part of the charm of this series. It's hard not to cheer him on as he rides off on his dirt bike, looking for red-clay mud and breaking up a meth ring. Eden, Wyoming is a great setting, with a leader and a sheriff but no contact with the federal government. Everyone in Eden except for Mark is wanted or suspected of some sort of crime; they're all refugees from the American legal system, living in harmony. A real refugee camp isn't like that, as anyone who's followed the news can tell you. Again, this unrealistic realism of Postal is part of its charm.
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