Comics Misremembered Podcast

The world is in a social crisis.  COVID-19 is impacting everyone and  we are all worrying about the future.  Now seems like the perfect time  to talk about a cheery subject – a totalitarian future were everyone’s  freedoms are stripped away and there is no hope.

This is not entirely true.  The is one hope – one man wages war on a  despotic government to overthrow the tyrants and return freedom to the  people.  Hooray!  We are going to be talking about V for Vendetta.  A comic by writer Alan Moore and artist  David Lloyd.  It was originally published as a serial in a UK comic Warrior in 1982.  DC converted it into a 10 issue miniseries in 1988.

Welcome back to the second and final part of our discussion of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta comic miniseries.  The 10 issue miniseries was published by DC back in 1982.

We also compare the comic miniseries to the 2005 movie.

We are continuing with our review of Dystopian comics and next on the list is Tim Truman’s Scout.  It was originally published by Eclipse Comics back in 1987.

BY TIMOTHY (CONAN WRITER/ARTIST) TRUMAN Scout, originally  published in 1987 and created by Timothy Truman features the Native  American hero, Emanuel Santana, and his one-man war against oppressive  governmental forces in a post-apocalyptic United States.

The future is now!  We are continuing our discussion on future dystopian comics and this week we are cover the future of American Flagg!

American Flagg! was a comic written and illustrated by Howard Chaykin with letters by Ken Bruzenak that originally started in 1983 and was distributed by First Comics, an independent publisher at the time.

Another week, another dystopian future.  This week we are covering the future of Transmetropolitan.  This is a 1997 comic series that was written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson.  It was published by DC under the new defunct Mature Sci-Fi imprint of Helix.

We will be doing Dystopian Futures for the near future because in comics, there are hundreds of dystopian future comics and we want to  talk about most of them.

This week, we are talking about an Epic Comic that is not really well known called The Last American.  It was written by John Wagner and Alan Grant with art from Mike (Mick) McMahon.  All 3 creators are based in the UK and created a comic that is an American Cautionary Tale.