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Postapocalyptic is a dark age and therefore quite barbaric. There was a comic called Axa by Romero.

She actually had a sword. I used to play the swedish version of Gammaworld. In this there were a class of mutants with psi-gifts. Very shunned by "normal" folks and robots alike because of their witchpowers.

Axa was enjoyable. The creators of GW probably watched Thundarr or read Brackett and Norton. Several of my buddies played Gamma World. They all liked it.

Conan 2000 anyone?

Meaning?

[deuce]

you have forgot a key series of this genre or subgenre by Michael Moorcock... ...

Don't keep us in suspense.

[ollonois]

The cycle of Dorian Hawkmoon, the runestaff

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The cycle of Dorian Hawkmoon, the runestaff

Aha! Quite right.

[Lunatic]

Postapocalyptic is a dark age and therefore quite barbaric. There was a comic called Axa by Romero.

She actually had a sword. I used to play the swedish version of Gammaworld. In this there were a class of mutants with psi-gifts. Very shunned by "normal" folks and robots alike because of their witchpowers.

Axa was enjoyable. The creators of GW probably watched Thundarr or read Brackett and Norton. Several of my buddies played Gamma World. They all liked it.

Conan 2000 anyone?

Meaning?

Would he make it?

[Lunatic]

Did Howard write anything in this genre, as in the plot and the characters walk around on top of the ruins of our world?

[Tex]

Did Howard write anything in this genre, as in the plot and the characters walk around on top of the ruins of our world?

What he wrote is in here...



http://www.rehfounda...cience-fantasy/

Tex
(HIGHLY recommended)

Edited by Tex, 09 July 2012 - 08:02 PM.

[RJMooreII]

Jack Vance Dying Earth is famous enough to have inspired several famous Dying Earth stories,series like Gene Wolfe The Book of the New Sun and even gave the subgenre its name.

Clark Asthon Smith was first though with Zothique stories.

I recently read through all the Zothique stories and it struck me how much the Dying Earth stories seem to take from it.

[sheets75]

This isn't necessarily new, but it's new to me: American Barbarian, a webcomic created by Tom Scioli. http://www.ambarb.com/

American Barbarian follows a red-white-and-blue-haired hero who must defend a post-post-apocalyptic world from the immortal Two-Tank Omen.

Two-Tank Omen is a giant satanic pharoah whose feet are tanks, btw. Scioli's art is nowhere near as good as Jack Kirby's but it's so exuberantly done that I can't help enjoying it. A print edition is also on Amazon now.

[Michael Miko]

I have always been fascinated by Sword & Science and post-apocalyptic stuff. I have been dabbling in doing some stuff in the genre and hopefully will come up with something solid enough to maybe do a weekly web comic or something in it.

[Lunatic]

...it that´s true, then answer this, priest. Why are we in these pits, hiding from some animal? Someday, when all your science and civilization are likewise swept away, your kind will pray for a man with a sword.

From "Rouges in the House"...