2000AD Sci-Fi Swipe File

[hippynumber1]

They 'appeared' (as in I remember them being mentioned, I think  ) in one of the radio plays!

[Skullmo]

Dr and Quinch


An excerpt from OC and Stiggs in National Lampoon

[Steve Green]

I don't know if you'd call it a swipe, but maybe an inspiration, good buddy! (Since we know Feek was inspired by something else)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/worth-more-than-its-weight-in-gold--alberto-giacometti-sculpture-could-fetch-31m-at-sothebys-auction-8925213.html

[ming]

I don't know if you'd call it a swipe, but maybe an inspiration, good buddy! (Since we know Feek was inspired by something else)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/worth-more-than-its-weight-in-gold--alberto-giacometti-sculpture-could-fetch-31m-at-sothebys-auction-8925213.html

Hah, that's uncanny... 

[Andy_Lee]

I don't know if you'd call it a swipe, but maybe an inspiration, good buddy! (Since we know Feek was inspired by something else)

Hah, that's uncanny... 

That's Ace! Bum, tish. I'm here all week

What was Feek based on?

[Alski]

Can't be coincidence - shame we can't ask Massimo!

[JOE SOAP]

Dr and Quinch


An excerpt from OC and Stiggs in National Lampoon

[ming]

Well if we're dragging out plotting 'influences' and the like, here's the plot outline from Roger Zelazny's  1969 novel, Damnation Alley, lifted from Wikipedia (bits in italics are mine, obviously).  I'm sure you're all aware of this old chestnut but it always tickles me....

"The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California [Mega-City Two], in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war decades before [Atom Wars]. Several police states have emerged in place of the former United States [Judges]. Hurricane-force winds above five hundred feet prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next [The Death Belt], and sudden, violent, and unpredictable storms make day-to-day life a mini-hell. Hell Tanner [Spikes Harvey Rotten], an imprisoned killer [criminal biker], is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission - a drive through "Damnation Alley" [The Cursed Earth] across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston [east coast to west coast] - as one of three vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine [K2001 Land Raider, Killdozer; 2T(Fru)T vaccine]."

[shaolin_monkey]

Well if we're dragging out plotting 'influences' and the like, here's the plot outline from Roger Zelazny's  1969 novel, Damnation Alley, lifted from Wikipedia (bits in italics are mine, obviously).  I'm sure you're all aware of this old chestnut but it always tickles me....

"The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California [Mega-City Two], in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war decades before [Atom Wars]. Several police states have emerged in place of the former United States [Judges]. Hurricane-force winds above five hundred feet prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next [The Death Belt], and sudden, violent, and unpredictable storms make day-to-day life a mini-hell. Hell Tanner [Spikes Harvey Rotten], an imprisoned killer [criminal biker], is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission - a drive through "Damnation Alley" [The Cursed Earth] across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston [east coast to west coast] - as one of three vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine [K2001 Land Raider, Killdozer; 2T(Fru)T vaccine]."

Just...




Wut!

[Skullmo]

   Brilliant!!

[JamesC]

Well if we're dragging out plotting 'influences' and the like, here's the plot outline from Roger Zelazny's  1969 novel, Damnation Alley, lifted from Wikipedia (bits in italics are mine, obviously).  I'm sure you're all aware of this old chestnut but it always tickles me....

"The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California [Mega-City Two], in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war decades before [Atom Wars]. Several police states have emerged in place of the former United States [Judges]. Hurricane-force winds above five hundred feet prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next [The Death Belt], and sudden, violent, and unpredictable storms make day-to-day life a mini-hell. Hell Tanner [Spikes Harvey Rotten], an imprisoned killer [criminal biker], is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission - a drive through "Damnation Alley" [The Cursed Earth] across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston [east coast to west coast] - as one of three vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine [K2001 Land Raider, Killdozer; 2T(Fru)T vaccine]."

Just...




Wut!

That's one crappy looking Land Raider.

The death belt is present and correct in that image though.

[o1s1n]

"The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California [Mega-City Two], in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war decades before [Atom Wars]. Several police states have emerged in place of the former United States [Judges]. Hurricane-force winds above five hundred feet prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next [The Death Belt], and sudden, violent, and unpredictable storms make day-to-day life a mini-hell. Hell Tanner [Spikes Harvey Rotten], an imprisoned killer [criminal biker], is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission - a drive through "Damnation Alley" [The Cursed Earth] across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston [east coast to west coast] - as one of three vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine [K2001 Land Raider, Killdozer; 2T(Fru)T vaccine].

Ah here! That takes the cake! Remind me to stop reading this thread

[Steve Green]

The Feek thing was inspired by a south/Central American statue I seem to recall.

[Colin YNWA]

If you've not all seen it there's a great (terrible) film version staring George Peppard (I think) and that bloke what was off of Airwolf (I think). It all there on Youtube and good heartly fun (nonsense)...

... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKYJdHe4xo

[IndigoPrime]

The Feek thing was inspired by a south/Central American statue I seem to recall.

Mictlantecuhtli, presumably...