World Without End (comics)
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | November 1990 – April 1991 |
No. of issues | 6 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Jamie Delano John Higgins |
Written by | Jamie Delano |
Artist(s) | John Higgins |
Letterer(s) | Richard Starkings |
Colorist(s) | John Higgins |
Editor(s) | Karen Berger Tom Peyer |
Collected editions | |
The Complete Collection | ISBN 0486808394 |
World Without End is a six-issue comic book limited series, created by Jamie Delano[1] and illustrated by John Higgins, released by DC Comics in 1990.
Publication history[]
Delano created the series between his run on Hellblazer and Animal Man.[2]
Delano has said:
After four years of Hellblazer, WWE felt like an opportunity to cut lose into a world of outrageous language and sumptuous imagery… and no-one held us back. The scenario of the story is fantastical and allegorical rather than speculatively futuristic. I guess its themes are more broadly philosophical than some of the specific socio/political trends I have engaged with through the more near-future settings of works such as 2020 Visions, and , etc.[3]
Plot summary[]
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The story involves a battle of the sexes in the future.
Reception[]
Black Gate magazine describe the series as "everything comics have the potential to achieve…a psychic thought-bomb of words and pictures that blew my mind to bloody smithereens."[4] They finished their review by saying that World Without End is:
a science fiction allegory mixed with fantasy adventure, told with style and skill that any comic creator has to envy. It’s a glorious, mad excursion into a world of erotic dreams and brutal nightmares. Jamie Delano’s power to evoke an entirely strange world ranks with that of sci-fi grandmaster Jack Vance. John Higgins’ stunning paints, his storytelling ability, his dynamic use of color to create surreal moods and absurd realities, it’s all the stuff of legend.[4]
Collected editions[]
Dover Books has collected the series into a single volume with an afterword by Stephen R. Bissette:
- World Without End: The Complete Collection (hardcover, 192 pages, October 2016, ISBN 978-0486808390)
Notes[]
- ^ "Jamie Delano". Tjscomics.com. April 4, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
- ^ Trail Blazers: Interviews with Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis, by David Carroll, Bloodsongs #8, 1997
- ^ Matheny, Joseph (December 23, 2007). "Jamie Delano's Narcopolis". Alterati. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
- ^ a b Fultz, John R. (July 30, 2010). "Exploring the WORLD WITHOUT END". Black Gate. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
References[]
- World Without End at the Grand Comics Database
- World Without End at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links[]
- World Without End on the DC wiki
- World Without End at ComicVine
- DC Comics limited series
- 1990 comics debuts
- 1991 comics endings
- Science fiction comics