Post Apocalyptic Style

[kemp]

In contrast, Days of Future Past, issues 141 -142 of the Uncanny X-Men depicts a future in which mutants are persecuted and hunted down by mutant hunting Sentinels.




In the animated X- Men series of the 90's the future world is depicted with a dark red sky, badly damaged and destroyed buildings, and with Sentinels patrolling the skies.



t is a grim future, humans aren't really doing that much better than mutant kind, but it raises the question on whether human survival and freedom will be depended on people destroying the current civilisation and starting again.

[Char-Vell]

Dec 6, 2021 2:02:04 GMT -5 kemp said:

I'm sure there's tons of cool shit that you can do with a Thundarr the barbarian post apocalypse setting.

I have found it so.

[bonesaw]

I believe this story lands the FF into a dystopian future after they get sucked into that black bubble thing...I read this single issue as a kid and thought it was awesome. The run is collected in FF omnibus #2 by John Byrne which has been oop for a long while now. I might have to pick up the floppies. Anybody remember this?



Man, Byrne could draw some soft looking boobs. 

[zarono]

The original run of Marvel's Killraven had an awesome post-apocalyptic style.

[kemp]

Thanks guys, looks like I have some catch up reading to do.

My favourite post apocalypse series would be the Old Man Logan run set in an alternate Marvel future where the supervillains finally defeated the superheroes, the world is left ravaged by the previous wars, divided amongst the villains, and the surviving heroes have to eke out some sort of existence.

[kemp]

I could never get enough of the wastelands, and so I read Avengers of the Wastelands, Old Man Hawkeye and the haunting Old Man Quill.


 

Another recommended series would be Maestro War & Pax. 

[kemp]

Dec 6, 2021 7:00:16 GMT -5 bonesaw said:

I believe this story lands the FF into a dystopian future after they get sucked into that black bubble thing...I read this single issue as a kid and thought it was awesome. The run is collected in FF omnibus #2 by John Byrne which has been oop for a long while now. I might have to pick up the floppies. Anybody remember this?



Man, Byrne could draw some soft looking boobs. 

I thought this was familiar for some reason. I actually read issue 295, missed 293 and 294. Years pass away for everyone living in the dome whereas only minutes have passed in the outside world. 

[kemp]

I like this mesh up. 

[kemp]

The old Norse believed in a cataclysmic end of days time, a series of events starting with cruel winters and moral decay, and culminating in a war between giants, demons and gods, they called it Raganarok. The world would be destroyed by natural disasters and a submersion of land in water, but new lands would resurface to begin another age populated by some of the surviving gods and men. 

[kemp]

'Someday – whenever the Norns, those inscrutable spinners of fate, decree it – there shall come a Great Winter (Old Norse fimbulvetr, sometimes Anglicized as “Fimbulwinter”) unlike any other the world has yet seen. The biting winds will blow snows from all directions, and the warmth of the sun will fail, plunging the earth into unprecedented cold. This winter shall last for the length of three normal winters, with no summers in between. Mankind will become so desperate for food and other necessities of life that all laws and morals will fall away, leaving only the bare struggle for survival. It will be an age of swords and axes; brother will slay brother, father will slay son, and son will slay father.

The gods will decide to go to battle, even though they know what the prophecies have foretold concerning the outcome of this clash. They will arm themselves and meet their enemies on a battlefield called Vigrid (Old Norse Vígríðr, “Plain Where Battle Surges”[3]).

Then the remains of the world will sink into the sea, and there will be nothing left but the void. Creation and all that has occurred since will be completely undone, as if it had never happened.

Some say that that is the end of the tale – and of all tales, for that matter. But others hold that a new world, green and beautiful, will arise out of the waters. Vidar and a few other gods – Vali, Baldur, Hodr, and Thor’s sons Modi and Magni – will survive the downfall of the old world, and will live joyously in the new one. A man and a woman, Lif and Lifthrasir (Old Norse Líf and Lífþrasir, “Life” and “Striving after Life”[4]), will have hidden themselves from the cataclysm in a place called the “Wood of Hoddmimir” (Hoddmímis holt), and will now come out and populate the lush land in which they will find themselves. A new sun, the daughter of the previous one, will rise in the sky. And all of this will be presided over by a new, almighty ruler.[5]'

norse-mythology.org/tales/ragnarok/

[kemp]

The medieval view of the apocalypse normally involved imagery and iconagraphy depicting the underworld Hellscape.

As section of Hieronymus Bosch’s 'The Last Judgement'.

[kemp]

From 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch



In detail some of the macabre depictions

[kemp]

Medieval imagery is also rife with beasts described in the traditional Christian Biblical apocalypse prophecies.

[zarono]

ARK II post apocalyptic style; all terrain science van equipped with a force field, cool outfits with utility belts, hot chick, jet pack, and a chimp. What more do you need to explore the radioactive hellscape?


But wait there's more, they also had a minivan.

[zarono]

Special bonus because I forgot to add it to the previous post, ARK II opening credits, check out the real life jet pack in action.