Highway 62 Revisited

SLASH MARAUD - DC Comics, 1987.

This is a deeply weird comic book by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy with some awesome coloring by Adrienne Roy. Spoilers follow.

Humanity is doomed. The alien Shapers moved into town and have been reconfiguring planet Earth to be a little bit more to their liking, with a toxic atmosphere and dinosaurs on the hoof and overgrown jungles taking the place of comfortable civilization. We’ve got five years before the process is too far gone for us to live on the planet any more.

Needless to say, the vast majority of humanity takes the news well and loses their collective marbles while the aliens sit back and watch the native population go crackers while they inject alien and recombined human DNA into the planet.

SLASH MARAUD is equal parts ROAD WARRIOR, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE WARRIORS, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, HEAVY METAL, BLUES BROTHERS and PLANET OF THE APES without being any of those things by itself. Is it unhinged? Yes. Off the rails? You bet.

How crazy? Well if you’re good, I might show you a bit in the future. But if I just told you, you wouldn’t believe me.