[New post] (SF Comic) Book Review: Future Day, Gene Day (1979)
Joachim Boaz posted: " Gene Day's cover for Future Day (1979) Comic book author and artist Gene Day (1951-1982) is best known for his SF work on Marvel Comics' Star Wars series and as an editor and artist for Dark Fantasy (1973-1980). He also created art for Chaosium games "
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Comic book author and artist Gene Day (1951-1982) is best known for his SF work on Marvel Comics' Star Wars series and as an editor and artist for Dark Fantasy (1973-1980). He also created art for Chaosium games including Nomad Gods(1977). My brief bibliographic blurb is based on Wikipedia. Here is a wonderful gallery of his work including images from his various Star Wars publications.
Future Day (1979), a "graphic album," contains seven "graphic stories" on themes of galactic conflict. It might be worth comparing Day's rather nihilistic formulations of war and galactic expansion/conquest with the positivist depiction of heroic liberation in Star Wars. I would suggest that Day is deliberately responding to the phenomenon of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The art and storylines are filled with indirect correlates to the Star Wars universe ("cute" R2D2-esque robots, hulking spaceships with similar details to imperial cruisers and X-wings, etc.)
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