Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFRAM "Kyballium Odyssey"

As We Have Seen HERE and HERE, Reality is Sorta...Flexible...

...and is going to get even more so by the end of this tale!

You'll be seeing these two kids, along with others from earlier chapters, in the final entry of the series

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Written and illustrated by Eric Puech, this story from the French anthology USA magazine hors-série #3 (1989) was cut into two segments when it was translated into English and printed in Marvel UK's anthology Strip #16 and 17 (1990).

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFRAM "PlanetFall"

Though It May Not Appear to Do So...

...this story does, in fact, tie-in to last week's tale...somehow!

Published as the second story arc in Marvel UK's anthology magazine Strip #14 & 15 (1990), this tale, writen and illustrated by Eric Puech, originally appeared in 1988 in the premiere issue of the French anthology USA magazine hors-série as a standalone tale entitled ""Le retour de la guerre des mondes" ("The Return of the War of the Worlds"), before the "Legend of Wolfram" tale we ran last week!
(That one was in #2 of USA magazine hors-série!)
How does it all fit together?

Or are we giving a whole new meaning to "Worlds of Wonder"?

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFRAM "Legend of Wolfram"

For November, we're running a never-seen-in-America story that.combines genres...

...the way a fusion restaurant combines cuisines!

Note: When this was originally-published in the French comic anthology USA magazine hors-série #2 (1988), this was one long story.
When it was translated and used in the British comic anthology Marvel UK's Strip (1990) it was broken into two parts running in issues 13 & 14.

You may well ask "What the hell is going on?"

Only writer-artist Eric Puech knows!

You'll have to be here next Wednesday to see what happens next!

Warning...it ain't what you think!

More "Time-Lost" RetroBlog Blogathon Excitement with the UNCANNY X-MEN in "Madness in MurderWorld!"

As the End of Summer Approaches...

...we present the final re-presentation of the blogathon: a never-reprinted tale from at least 30 years ago!

Go to...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

...on Tuesday thru Friday for the limited-edition, never-reprinted comic that accompanied the videogame Madness in MurderWorld!, which utilized the heroes and villains from X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, a pilot episode which pre-dated the long-running X-Men animated series!
Plus the character info pages from the game manual!

And if you want some background about Pryde of the X-Men (along with the actual episode) go HERE now!

Monday Maternity Madness THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Much as George Orwell's prophetic dystopian novel 1984 was published decades before many elements of it became fact...

Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel about a future America (renamed Gilead in the early 21st Century) approaches realization in 2024!

We proudly present a couple of excerpts from the graphic novel adaptation, published in 2019.

Note that the Handmaids' clothing designs and other uniforms are somewhat different from the movie or TV series.

Before selection, potential Handmaids live in dorms where communication with each other is forbidden.

The "lucky" ones are placed only in households of the rich and powerful whose wives cannot conceive children.

Note that it is mentioned that failure to conceive is sometimes the husband's fault!
(But it's a situation that likely happens more often than discussed...)
The unnamed narrator is assigned to The Commander and given the name "Offred" since her new master is Fred...

Offred manages to escape, but her fate is unknown.

The epilogue is set in the future (specifically 2195), when Gilead has been replaced by a more rational government and way of life...

There's an award-winning sequel novel published in 2019, The Testaments, set fifteen years after the conclusion of Tale and chronicles the fall of Gilead.
This graphic novel was also published in 2019.
HERE'S an interview with the adaptation writer/artist with some concept art!
Whether you borrow the prose novel or graphic novel from the library or buy it (new or used), please READ it!
Too many of the concepts shown are in the Republican platform and its' manual Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025 (which you can download in PDF form at Archive.org HERE)!

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