Future Shock #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at a strange comic adaptation of a low-budget independent film!

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Originally uploaded August 13th, 2012.

ORIGINAL INFO: A shocking tale about the future! …Yeah, not really.

RUMINATIONS: The opening of this one, talking briefly about virtual reality, was one of the last few attempts to try to create a similar sequence to an MST3K opener, albeit a bit half-hearted in this one’s effort.

Future Shock is one of those books where I really would love to hear from the creators to try to find out what they were thinking. Comic adaptations of movies are ill-advised from the get-go, but I think this is the only time I’ve ever seen an hour and a half movie be put into so few pages. Most movie adaptations end up cutting a lot for 40 pages, so to see not even HALF make it into the book makes it nearly incomprehensible.

Over in the storyline, EVERYBODY was commenting on how ridiculous it was that Harvey was trying to use a little pistol on Holokara, especially when he wasn’t even aiming for the mobile emitter. I ended up addressing it later to try to cover for the mistake, though nobody bothered to point out the odd fact that Harvey wear white socks along with his nice tuxedo.