Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ALIEN WORLDS "Ride the Blue Bus"

As Our Economy Collapses, We Ask "Is This the Future Don the Con has in mind for us?"

Thanks to him, we are edging ever closer and closer to it!

This never-reprinted post-apocalyptic tale by writer Bruce Jones and artist George Perez from Pacific's Alien Worlds #7 (1984) has an odd quirk.

Both Toby's friend, Juke, and the unnamed bus driver are illustrated as Black.

Yet neither is colored differently than the blond/blue-eyed Toby!

Was this deliberate?

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Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON Happy 45th, Flash!

Before we end 2025, we wanted to acknowledge that it's the 45th Anniversary of Flash Gordon.

Though critically-reviled when it came out, the movie has attained cult-classic status, primarily due to the soundtrack by Queen...

...and over-the-top performances by (among others) Brian Blessed (Hawkman Prince Vultan), Topol (Dr Zarkoff) and Max Von Sydow (Ming the Merciless).

The comic adaptation was written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by legendary artist Al Williamson (who, ironically, was also doing the equally-magnificent graphic novel version of The Empire Strikes Back at the same time)!

Interestingly, Williamson inked the entire Flash adaptation, while allowing the talented Carlos Garzon (himself, no slouch) to ink the bulk of Empire.
Read it, from the beginning...HERE!

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Space Hero Saturdays ALIEN WORLDS "Few and the Far"

In space, things aren't always as they seem to appear...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #1 (1982) demonstrates not once, but twice...

Admit it.

Writer Bruce Jones and artist Al Williamson fooled you!

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Friday Fun ALIEN WORLDS "Small Change"

Summer's starting to wind down...

...so let's say "goodbye" with a never-reprinted, "fun" tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #7 (1984)!

BTW, writer Bruce Jones and artist Brent Anderson also teamed up for an amazing run on Marvel's Ka-Zar the Savage in the '80s.

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Ka-Zar: SavageDawn

by Bruce Jones and Brent Anderson

(collecting 1-5 of Ka-Zar the Savage)

Monday Madness LIANA

Here's a tale of future love published exactly 50 years ago...

...Nestled none too securely in the grim world of the future, Liana longs for the miracle that will end the pain of her lonely existence!
But, miracles can have dangerous side-effects, as Liana will soon find out!

This tale originally appeared in The Monster Times #14 (July 31, 1972), written and illustrated by Bruce Jones, who went on to write and illustrate (but rarely both at the same time) for DC and Marvel.
BTW, if you wonder why the caption in the first panel is so hard to read, it's because this was published as two pages in a tabloid 11 1/2"x 16 1/2" format (like 1970s Marvel and DC "Treasury" editions), so I repeated the text below the first page!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN AND THE LOST WORLD Part 3

Nope, you don't have to reboot your tablet/laptop/desktop/smartphone...

...this story was published in b/w instead of color!

We Have Already Seen...

...hapless astronaut Hunt Bowman, put in suspended animation by a NASA experiment, slept through World War III, which reduced Earth to a barren world populated by savages.

Finally defrosted, he meets a mute woman flying a jetcycle and armed with advanced focused-energy weapons.

She flies him to a nearby small city where he discovers...an exact look-alike of himself!

You'll note all three of my theories are still equally-valid...

1) Since Bowman is from the past, is this guy also from the past...or Bowman himself, returned from further into the future?
2) Is he a clone, created from Bowman's cells taken before he went into space?

3) Is this not only a future Earth, but an alternate universe as well?

Regrettably, we'll never know the answer, since this was the final issue of Blackthorne's revival of Planet Comics! (The book being printed in b/w instead of the previous issues' full color might've been a tip-off!).
Neither the Golden Age nor Bronze Age versions of Hunt Bowman have appeared in new tales since!

Next Week...

A New Wednesday World of Wonder!
Don't Miss It!

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Prison Ship

by Bruce Jones and Estaban Maroto

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN OF THE LOST WORLD Part 2

The original Hunt Bowman was an marksman with a bow and a decent shot with a handgun!

The new "astronaut-frozen-in-time" Buck Rogers-wannabe is obviously not the same guy!

To Be Continued

NEXT WEEK!

Since Bowman is from the past, is this guy also from the past...or further into the future?

Or is he a clone, created from Bowman's cells taken before he went into space?

Or is this not only a future Earth, but an alternate universe as well?

Makes you wonder why writer Bruce Jones and artist Ken Hooper even tried to adapt the original Lost World strip!

Except for the character's name, it has nothing in common with the 1940s series!

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Prison Ship

by Bruce Jones and Estaban Maroto

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN IN THE LOST WORLD Part 1B

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...he's the Buck Rogers-ripoff "astronaut frozen and defrosted centuries later in a post-apocalyptic Earth" guy underneath this incredibly-kool Dave Stevens cover, which is based very loosely on what's about to occur in the story...

Computer system...in a cave?

The cliches just keep coming!

While writer Bruce Jones has done some absolutely spectacular work in comics, I'd say this is not one of his award-winning moments!

Clearly, the Dave Stevens cover (above) is the reason Blackthorne's Planet Comics V2N1 (1988) is $50 (or more) on the back-issue market!
Note also that Stevens did exactly what the original Fiction House Planet Comics' cover artists did in the 1940s...take a plot element and hyper-cheesecake it!
(Not that I'm complaining...)
Nonetheless, if you want to see what develops, be here next Wednesday.

Warning: the remaining issues do not have Dave Stevens covers!

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Just Teasing

by Dave Stevens

Out of Print 12x18" book of frameable full-page cheesecake posters taken directly from Stevens' original art used for comic and book covers...including the Planet Comics cover...without any logos or lettering!