#death planet

[evilhorse]

The…whole planet is a death zone.

(Fantastic Four Volume 8 #1)

[ginge1962]

Death Planet - Cover by Pye Parr.

[judgeanon]

Question: If you had to take one 2000ad story/series that you found disappointing, underwhelming, or just plain didn't like, and redo it, which would you pick and what would you change about it?

I’m gonna refrain from doing the obvious answer of Hershey’s solo series and instead, I’d go way back to DEATH PLANET

Because Death Planet was the first major disappointment I got while doing my prog slog. They had a shot at creating the very first female heroine in 2000AD and completely botched it by giving her a male co-star who made all the right calls and always saved the day with his rough and tough ways. Meanwhile, Lorna just stood in a corner angsting over how useless she was and yadda yadda. Got a bit better near the end when they introduced a villainess who hated Lorna for personal reasons and she gained some more protagonism thanks to it, but goddamn that was an eyerolling couple of progs.

In a similar way, MOONRUNNERS had a very interesting premise, and while it developed way better than Death Planet, it was still kinda low energy and boring. The concept was solid and even a bit ahead of its time, but it needed to be more thrilling in its execution. And it could’ve used more Belardinelli weirdo creatures.

[downthetubes]

Classic British Comic Covers: 2000AD Prog 62, featuring the comic’s first female heroine

Classic British Comic Covers: 2000AD Prog 62, featuring the comic’s first female heroine

Brian Lewis cover art for 2000AD Prog 62, cover dated 29th April 1978.

“Death Planet” was a short-lived series written by Alan Hebden with art by Lopez which began in 2000AD 62 and ran through to Prog 70, back in 1978. Commander Lorna Varn, the captain of a colony ship from Earth which crash lands on a hostile alien world, holds the distinction of being 2000AD‘s first ever heroine lead.

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[human-aliens-collection]

Animals

I’ve seen posts on humans and large animals and how the aliens would react- but what about the smaller, less important creatures?

For example, the Arctic’s woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid every winter, and then comes back to life again. Mayflies only live for a day-some even only hours. Rats and mice are the most widespread animals on Earth excepting humans- basically, wherever you see a human there’s probably also mice. The coelacanth has been around since ancient times. The immortal jellyfish  (Turritopsis dohrnii) is quite literally immortal. A waterbear can live in the most crazy of environments  (even space!). Cone snails are one of the deadliest things on earth (no joke, they shoot a harpoon that contains so much poison you die before you hit the ground.) There is an eel that literally makes electricity through vibration. Cheetahs will burn their own brain up if they run for too long due to the sudden intense burst of heat created by the muscles. Yep, they can die of running. Blobfish. The oceans. Bacteria and germs and shit- one human contains a whole world & multiple armies to destroy their foe (try H.G.Wells’ War of the Worlds for a great example)

There are so many more creatures out there that are far weirder and crazier then most fiction, and they need their own spotlight too!

[schpog-art]

What a love(?) story!

[remember-when-star-trek]

Remember that planet where they just randomly enforced the law and killed people who broke them because it stopped crime and kept people on their toes and the Federation thinks this IS NOT FUCKING TOTALITARIAN BECAUSE ITS PRETTY THERE THAT’S COOL WE’RE COOL WITH YOU MURDERING PPL FOR LITTERING THATS YOUR CULTURE WE DONT JUDGE and they tried to kill Wesley for falling into the flowers or something and Picard was like dammit I’ll never bone this redhead MILF if I let ‘em kill her son so fuck this we’re done here

[2000adonline]

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE WEIRD!

Beyond the Bermuda triangle lies a world, so hostile to human beings, that those stranded there know it as the Planet Of the Damned! In this story from 2000 AD's early sister comic, Starlord, a Tri-Star jet crashes on a treacherous world and the survivors find themselves being relentlessly attacked by all forms native flora and fauna, including the monstrous Ab-humans! Fortunately they are discovered by Flint – another human resident stranded on this world long ago. With their axe-wielding guide in taking charge, some of the survivors may just find a way to return home alive! And in Death Planet (2000 AD progs 62-70), it’s the 23rd century and the starship Eternity sets out from Earth carrying a cargo of colonists bound for new lives on distant worlds. When the ship is knocked off course, crashing on an unknown alien planet, Commander Lorna Varn and colonist leader Richard Cory must set aside their differences and work together to keep everyone alive.  Written by Pat Mills and Alan Hebden, with art by Horacio Lalia, Pena, Alfonso Azpiri, and Lopez, these are two forgotten classics from the halcyon days of Starlord and early 2000 AD! To celebrate the Planet of the Damned collection now being available for pre-order, we bring you the first few pages of this in-your-face terror trip to another world! Pre-order Planet of the Damned from 2000 AD’s webshop

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