I loved Logan's Run, me. Loved the movie, loved the books, adored the TV series, and thrilled to the Official Marvel Comics adaptation. And as I said on the Kids From Rec Road site recently, loved the idea of the story continuing past the film, as it did for only one issue here.
This follows on a couple of hours after the end of the flick, and as you'd expect, now that the computers have stopped working, anarchy reigns and everything's up for grabs.
DAK & George Perez, who did the adaptation, have presumably moved onto bigger and better things, but we have the ace team of Tom Sutton & Klaus Janson here, along with John Warner on script, and I always wished this run had continued.
Warner was a solid, if unspectacular, writer who produced a Son Of Satan series I didn't like, and a Bloodstone one I did, and here he's in full Marvel writing mode. I often say that movie adaptations weren't 'Real' Marvel to me, but with Logan endlessly explaining and vocalising his every thought here, this couldn't be more classic Bronze Age Marvel if it tried. If only it had continued...
I've seen the movie, but never saw the television series. It didn't last very long. I suspect the comic series died, too, because Star Wars was the hot new property.
ReplyDelete"Logan's Run" seemed to owe a bit to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Regards,
Chris A.
Very much so, yeah. Not sure the TV show would hold up now, but certainly loved it back then.
ReplyDeleteHeh. I recall seeing the Logan's Run movie with some friends & then bitterly complaining afterwards about how so many SF shows & films concerned themselves with the romance & adventure of revolution - only to abruptly end once the hard work of putting society back together again is next up on the agenda.
ReplyDeleteI bought the comic, however - mainly because of Perez - and I, too, was looking forward to seeing the story continue. It's a shame it never really got off the ground.
(Atlas Shrugged - a literary piece of used food if ever there was one - is probably the most glaring example of what I was yelling about: As in "Hooray! All the 'users' and 'takers' and poor people are dying & when the smoke clears, only us genius captains of industry & science will be left!" Yeah - with no more wage slaves to build your crap, drive you around, cook your meals, do your laundry or clean up your messes. Well done!)
ReplyDeleteYeah, we do need the A, B & C arks to paraphrase Douglas Adams...
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm sure verything would've been fine in another three issues in Logan's World, and he'd be fighting giant mutants or something, but it would've been an interesting ride in the meantime.
In the TV series he had a few alien encounters.
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I have foggy memories of both the movie and the tv show, but I remember at least liking the first. And nor the adaptation neither the series were published here.
ReplyDeleteThis post led me to make myself a question: How's that there are so many comic book adaptations of scifi flicks and si little of horror? One could answer that it was a side effect of the horrendous Star Wars saga, but then the few attemps done with horror movies have not been exactly fiascos (Think in Evil Dead by Dark Horse).
Well, thank God we have Eibon Press. Comics you don't want your parents (or wife) caught you reading. As it must be! (lol).
Ah! Have you ever read the comic adaptation of The watcher in the woods? It seems that Disney got a series of newspapers strips adapting movies and that forgotten gem (even better with the original, monstruous finale) was adapted in early 80s.
Manuel Ruiz
No, I didn't know that existed, Manuel! Got any scans or links as to where I can put some of that up here?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately Pete, it seems to be forever missing. The only thing I know is that it was part of the series "Walt Disney's treasury of classic tales", a comic strip that ran for decades adapting Disney movies, including some great stuff like The black hole by Jack Kirby (there are scans of this in internet). But the info about TWINW is virtually non existent, apart of scarce mentions here and there.
ReplyDeleteA compilation of the series is available too but it doesn't include it. A pity.
Manuel Ruiz
Shame, but I'll do some searching anyway - You never know.
ReplyDeleteSome time ago, I found a page, Thepaperbackfilmprojector.blogspot, and in one entry about Walt Disney Treasury Classics, one guy commented that he had complete sets of The black hole and Watcher in the woods. And accordingly to wiki it was drew by a certain Richard Moore.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Manuel Ruiz
Completely agree about the storytelling Pete.
ReplyDeleteIf comics like Logan's Run weren't real Marvels then you'd have to add Conan to the list, which would obviously be absurd.
Personally, I used to lump those adaptations together with the other (short lived) sf comics Marvel put out at the time.
They all had quite a bit in common - if you look at a longer lasting film continuation like POTA, the "world gone mad"-type stories were quite similar to what you'd find in, say, Killraven. So much so that some of them actually WERE Killraven stories!
(If you want to read more Marvel Logan's Run, take an old Jason & Alexander story - the one with the giant brains in fishtanks inside Mt Rushmore would be a good - change the names, tweak the dialogue and paste human heads and sandman uniforms on the apes...)
-sean
That should read "would be a good choice". Duh.
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That's exactly the kind of thing I mean - If Logan had continued, they would absolutely gone into those kind of stories, which would've suited me.
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