I have just read properly The Heritage illustrated by SWORD artist Malcolm Stokes. I'd only skimmed it when I posted it last time. It really does have a SWORDesque feel to it as the last two humans leave a dying Earth to seek refuge on another planet. Stokes's pair of astronauts really do have an air of SWORD personnal like Doctor Morris in the Annual. Have a read!
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PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT
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5 comments:
It put me in mind of the ending to the new Battlestar Galactica series too.
Three observations:
(1) Speaking as Toad and being closer to reptiles than you ape-descendants ... I thought this story was heavily prejudiced against reptiles!
(2) That's "scaly ones", not "scaley ones". (glares at the letterer involved).
[see panel 3 of the story's fourth page]
(3) Kayler and Voss might have been a little optimistic .....
Tal watched in puzzlement as the two silver gods lay down and died. How could this be? Surely the gods were undying? Then his eyes caught sight of the strange sticks the gods had used to defeat the scaly ones. His slow mind struggled to recall how the gods had used them. He held one awkwardly toward his rival Kag. There was a bright glare and Kag fell to the ground, a smouldering heap of flesh. Shock and fear ran through Tal ... then realisation followed. With the god's sticks all could be his. He could take his pick of the women; the best of the food would be his by right. Tal would lead ... because now Tal was a god! And he looked around, and was pleased.
Magg had grown tired of Tal's boorish ways. Being the tribal leader's woman had always been her dream, but the price was too high. She knew the gossip that flared up each time Tal's attentions strayed to yet another of the younger women. A plan flared briefly in her mind .... was almost extinguished by the sheer novelty of thought ... and then leapt into roaring flames of ambition. She felt beneath the skin on which the oaf beside her snored. With great care, and with pounding heart, she took the god's stick to her own as Tal continued to sleep. Now SHE was a god! Now was the time for a new reign .... things would be different from now on ....
And so it goes on ...
Lesson: get rid of the weapons before you die, guys!
BTW ... Kayler and Voss dug the hole for the Time Capsule with their Atom Blast guns ... how did they fill it in? They died immediately afterwards. (shrugs). Honest, I like the story really. ^_^
Oh, and the rest of my comments on this are in sign-language ... which is of course the same on all planets with parallel evolutions.
Heh heh ... OK, I'm shutting up now, honest (grins).
The problem of how the hole was filled in? easy. The two dying astronauts, in their final death-throes [unseen] crawled to the hole and fell into it to expire. Seeing this the natives were compelled to cover them with earth as is the universal custom of hominids everywhere. Hole filled!
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