Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics LAST OF US "ART OF..." & "AMERICAN DREAMS"

With the release of the sequel videogame Last of Us Part II...
...it behooves us to explore the post-apocalyptic, but still pandemic-ridden world the series takes place in!
The game stars Ellie...
...a teenage girl who carries the disease, but hasn't yet "turned" into one of the "Infected"...
...who have been mutated into mindless killers by an extremely-contagious fungus!
The game is unique in that one of the two playable ongoing protagonists, Ellie's traveling partner and protector, Joel...
...is unstoppably killed during the events of the new game!
There's a kool article at the New York Times that provides more background, as well as detailing the events in Part II!
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(detailing the creation of the original game and prequel graphic novel)
and/or
and/or
(the prequel graphic novel)

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics EERIE "Masque of the Red Death!"

Wow!
It's scary how many adaptations there are of Edgar Allen Poe's classic story...
...including this one from Warren's Eerie Magazine #12 (1967)!
Adapted by writer/editor Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Tom Sutton, this tale is one of the looser versions we've run.
But, at the same time, it's one of the more effective ones at evoking the mood and visceral terror the story requires!
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(reprinting this tale, plus everything else in issues 11-15)

Monday, June 22, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics Y: THE LAST MAN "UnManned" Conclusion

...various seemingly-unrelated events that will (almost) all tie together by the end of this entry...
And the premiere comes full circle...
Written by Brian K Vaughn, penciled by Pia Guerra, and inked by José Marzan, Jr., this intro from Vertigo's Y: the Last Man #1 (2002) tells the story. clearly and concisely, setting up multiple plotlines for the future.
There's lots of concepts jammed into the multi-award winning post-apocalyptic 60-issue series including political conspiracies, ethical dilemma of cloning, LGBT extremists, and interracial love, among others.
Sadly, all of these concepts are still controversial.
Note the series does conclude on a somewhat happy note as humanity manages to figure out a way to rebuild, so the generation the story is set in isn't the end of the human race.
And, there's a TV mini-series now in production, soon to air on FX.
(Presuming it restarts production after the CoronaVirus pandemic ends, and reshoots almost every scene already filmed since they had to replace the lead actor...)
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(collecting issues 1-10)

Sunday, June 21, 2020

He's NOT Your Father's Perry Mason...

...but he is your grandfather's!
...as these 1940s graphic adaptations of two of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels show!
Note: these are reformattings of the Perry Mason newspaper comic strip!
The new HBO series draws on several sources including the early novels, the newspaper comic strip, a six-film 1930s b-movie series adapting the books, and a long-running 1940s-50s radio show!
Trivia: the serialized radio show spawned a live daytime TV-show spinoff which Gardner disapproved of, so the character of Mason was replaced by Mike Karr and the show premiered as the soap-opera The Edge of Night (1956-1980)!
You can read both of the never-reprinted 1940s comics after the July 4th Weekend as part of our usual Summer Blogathon, spread out between this blog and "brother" RetroBlog Crime & Punishment!
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

As the Usual Summer Inferno Reaches the Continental USA...

...beat the heat by staying indoors in air-conditioned comfort and enjoying...COMIC BOOKS!
Read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...plus...
...True Love Comics Tales
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Crime & Punishment...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
...Western Comics Adventures...
...the aptly-named
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Hero Histories...
...Heroines!...
...War: Past, Present and Future!
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!