tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post4708987210703232197..comments2024-03-28T02:53:44.198-07:00Comments on RETROMANIA: SIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post-36619505264131700102013-08-06T12:04:09.154-07:002013-08-06T12:04:09.154-07:00cheers Marc (and Anonymous)
what a fantastic conc...cheers Marc (and Anonymous)<br /><br />what a fantastic concept, parasite raiders from the future...SIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post-73393607569889994782013-08-05T18:41:29.108-07:002013-08-05T18:41:29.108-07:00Hi Simon (if I may),
The quote and the image in m...Hi Simon (if I may),<br /><br />The quote and the image in my post come from Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, in which the Sheeda--humanity's descendants from a future depleted of all resources--keep coming back to plunder the past. Needless to say, I was reminded of that more than once while I read your book.<br /><br />Ironically, Seven Soldiers isn't the first Morrison comic I would recommend to new readers--precisely because it's filled with so many arcane references to past comics. But hey, one man's hyperstasis is another man's portal...<br /><br />Loved the book, by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post-58362756709114631332013-08-05T15:16:45.332-07:002013-08-05T15:16:45.332-07:00Seven Soldiers, Grant Morrison's "auteur ...Seven Soldiers, Grant Morrison's "auteur crossover" that featured seven different series drawn by different artists.<br /><br />The main bad guys are the Sheeda, a race of alien fairies who turn out to be humanity from a billion years from the future. Unable to create their own technology or culture, they travel back into the past to "harvest" human civilization.<br /><br />Just enough is left each time for the humans to cobble together a new global society over the course of a hundred thousand years.<br /><br />Then they come back.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04382415493445235731noreply@blogger.com