Monday, 1 April 2013

PART TWO Of JOHNNY FUTURE And The KILLER ROBOT...

Copyright REBELLION

Are you all sitting comfortably?  Good, then I'll begin.  Once upon a time, in a long-ago age known as the 1960s, there was a weekly comic called FANTASTIC.  This particular paper periodical published a superbly drawn strip called The MISSING LINK, which wasn't much more than an INCREDIBLE HULK 'knock-off'.  After four months or so, the strip metamorphosed into JOHNNY FUTURE, featuring the awesome adventures of a radioactively-mutated Link in his new guise of a sensational superhero, with cape, cowl, costume and all.

LUIS BERMEJO was the accomplished Spanish artist who drew the strip, and it's mainly because of his awesome artistry that the feature is still fondly remembered today, so many years after it finally faded into the cavernous confines of comicbook limbo.

Now, thanks to my incredibly famous generosity (he said, modestly), you Crivs can re-read JF's incredible escapades, almost a frightening fifty years later.  Or, if you weren't around back then, experience them for the first time, o stupendous seeker after spectacular superhero stories.

If you're enjoying these power-packed re-presentations of Johnny's pulsating punch-ups, be sure to let me know in the comments section.  Or, manifest your gratitude in the form of cheques for extremely large amounts of dosh, which you can forward to my representative on 'The Floor of '64'.  Don't worry, he'll pass them on to me, minus his slice of 100 percent.  Do it now!