(1987)
Last Gasp,
1978 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 2.50 USD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1987
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Last Gasp
- Brand
-
Last Gasp
- ISBN
-
0-86719-177-5
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney (associate editor)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in Just Say Yes to Anarachy Comics
cover / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Cavemen brandishing golfclubs, phone receivers and hammers tromp over a wasteland of skulls, computers, and keyboards and gaze at decaying skyscrapers in a post-civilization world.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
A heavily doctored Charles R. Knight painting is probably the skeletal underpinning for this image. Half-toned stats used in its production were done with the assistance of Processed World, a radical magazine of the era.
[The Conspiracy District Court Star-Chamber: Northern District of Eco-Topia]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Introduction to the artists and stories in the issue in the guise of an indictment of "the Anarchy Comics Collective," a fictitious entity representing the contributors to the issue.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The "indictment" is signed by "Winston P. Smith, Conspiracy Attorney," an ironic reference to the protagonist of George Orwell's 1984.
Armageddon Outtahere!
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
- Pencils
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
- Inks
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
- Letters
- J
- Characters
- Bud Tuttle; Dritz Bodkin; Jesus; Mary Magdalene; the Anti-Christ; a cast of millions
- Synopsis
- Mistakenly thinking the world is ending, Tuttle and Bodkin lock themselves in an underground survivalist chamber, only to re-emerge 10 years later when the real end-of-the-world is unleashed.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Tuttle and Bodkin had appeared in previous Kinney-Mavrides strips and Tuttle originated in a Kinney-Sonntag strip in Occult Laff-Parade in 1973.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the Night of March 3 1982...
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
First 3 pages are a mostly-wordless depiction of a teenager's petrol-bombing of a police station in a London suburb in 1982 (which caused no loss of life and little damage). The final page is a mostly text summary of the subsequent fall-out which included the perpetrator's hanging himself in custody.
You Rule the World!
comic story / 4 pages
- Synopsis
- A discontinuous sequence of panels showing different choices culminating in the protagonist ruling the world, as he is the only one left.
- Reprints
1871
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
- Pencils
- Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
- Inks
- Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
- Letters
- Spain Rodriguez [as Spain]
- Genre
- history
- Characters
- Emperor Napoleon III; Jacques; Raymond; Leon Gambetta; Cleric; Claire LaPorte; Raoul; Monsieur Renoir
- Synopsis
- A dramatized historical strip about the Paris Commune and its fate.
- Reprints
-
in My True Story (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (August 1994) - in Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection (PM Press, 2012 series) (2012)
-
Public Enemy
comic story / 3 pages
- Synopsis
- A semi-allegorical account of the bust, impounding, and destruction of the artists' solo comic, Frescazizis, in the 1980s in the UK.
- Reprints
Mr. Helpful
comic story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Recursive tale of a wish to help world hunger delayed by the desire for a "little snack."
- Reprints
Executive Terrorism
text story / 1 page
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text story occupies right side of page 34 and left side of adjoining page 35.
Korporate-Rex
comic story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Allegorical strip of international corporations as battling dinosaurs
- Reprints
Anarchy = Panarchy
comic story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Intricate rhyming strip riffing on the meaning of the word "anarchy".
- Reprints
- in UG!3K & Expozo (Fogelcomix, 1999 series) (December 1999)
- in Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection (PM Press, 2012 series) (2012)
-
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Federation of Planets extends greetings to Planet Earth and its people
- Synopsis
- Infant convinces arriving aliens that Earth's inhabitants are too primitive to wisely use the aliens' offer of advanced technological knowledge. They depart.
- Reprints
Cover-up Lowdown
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
- Pencils
- Paul Mavrides
- Inks
- Paul Mavrides; Jay Kinney
- Letters
- Jay Kinney
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Satire of the international arms market, featuring a character reminiscent of Fat Freddy of the Freak Brothers.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Just Say Yes to Anarachy Comics
-
1.
[The Conspiracy District Court Star-Chamber: Northern District of Eco-Topia]
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2.
Armageddon Outtahere!
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3.
["On the Night of March 3 1982..."]
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4.
You Rule the World!
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5.
1871
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6.
Public Enemy
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7.
Mr. Helpful
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8.
Confirm Your Worst Suspicions with Anarchy Comics
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9.
Executive Terrorism
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10.
[no title indexed]
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11.
Korporate-Rex
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12.
Anarchy = Panarchy
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13.
["The Federation of Planets extends greetings to Planet Earth and its people"]
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14.
Cover-up Lowdown
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15.
Greetings from Hiroshima, Japan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Jay Kinney
- Steven Samuels
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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