But we'll still glance at a couple! From 1988,
Time Twisters #12, featuring "The Avenging Kong Meets Laurel and Hardy" from 1983's
2000 AD #313, written by "Stavros," art by Mike White; and "Kaboom!" Written by Peter Milligan, art by Anthony Jozwiak. The GCD knew that was from
2000 AD somewhere...
Future movie producers have a delightful scam running in "Avenging Kong," wherein they send their robo-Terminator-actress back in time to murder some Mongols or whatever, edit it into a feature, and profit! As long as she doesn't leave any witnesses, it's in the bag; but like every successful film series, next come the copycats.
In "Kaboom!" the super-rich have taken refuge in bunkers, and left the rest of humanity to fight a war that they started with aliens. Although the war is noisy, they're safe as houses with their robot guards, but some of started to wonder why their robots haven't driven off the aliens yet...unless they wanted the planet for themselves. Nope, there's more of a twist then that!
I'm still trying to figure out how sending killer robots into various points in time just to save money making movies doesn't do irreparable damage to time itself.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see those robots fucking with the rich people & ultimately taking over the planet & enslaving the people. Nice bit of trolling by them btw. Funny.
Ok, time to flex my 2000 AD muscles- Stavros is a pseudonym for Alan Grant, and 'Kaboom' was originally called 'Crazy War' and comes from 2000 AD #404. I have to admit that I looked up where the Peter Milligan story came from, though.
ReplyDeleteMight have mentioned this before but there's a great site called Barney for 2000 AD reference. It's http://www.2000ad.org and other than being a couple of years behind on current issues and having a few gaps in reprint information, it's a good resource for info on writers/artists/specific issues.
I may have misled you in the cut: the movie producers sent their robot back to moments where they knew everyone died, so they were free to kill everyone there. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
ReplyDeleteAnd you are right about Stavros! The GCD mentioned it, but I neglected to. But "Crazy War" accounts for why the GCD didn't know where that was originally from.
@Googum, so basically like that one plot in Loki where a variant can hide in an extension-level event bc those people were destined to die anyways. Nice.
ReplyDeleteNothing particularly unusual about that- time traveling to a historical day of death, only to be the actual killer, is almost as old as time travel fiction itself. I can think of a few 'going back to kill dinosaurs' stories off the top of my head, for example.
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense that the GCD didn't know the story- there are literally hundreds of these Future Shocks, and they changed the names in reprints quite often. It took a little piecing together for me to get it even.