#02 Sci Fi
#02 Sci Fi
Published December 1970 / 36 pages / Last Gasp
The second issue of Slow Death abandons both the “Funnies” in the book’s title and the environmental agenda of the first issue. Instead, we’re treated to four consecutive stories set in the future, with various spaceship travel and post-nuclear disaster plots. The series would have been drastically improved had it continued along this rich vein, but it was back to preaching and lecturing soon enough. The “Slow Death” plots were always the best, with plenty of violence and gore along with sci-fi adventures, minus the leftist tree-hugger or naive “peace at all costs” crap.
COMIC CREATORS Ron Turner • Jack Jackson • Dave Sheridan • Jim Osborne • Richard Corben • Gary Grimshaw • Robert Crumb • Stephen Vincent • Gilbert Shelton • Greg Irons • Trina Robbins • Fred Schrier
