MetroCity

METROCITY... THE PAST LIVES IN THE FUTURE ...THE FUTURE LIVES IN THE PAST. There are so many ways to tell a story; movie, TV episode, novel, short story, play, ballet, opera, song or passing it on by word of mouth - but the best combination is simply a comic. Where else can you put all the other forms in one spot, to tell a story. In any story the... comic form is the best place to freeze time, accelerate it beyond comprehension and multiply it. Blur the narrative elements or sharpen them to laser pin point. Here, in graphic form, in a comic, you can do anything. We've loved comics since we was just widdle kids. Loved them for the action, the colour, the humour of the characters, from Superman to Congo Bill and Space Ranger. We got older and started to tell our own stories. We found that the artists and writers became our heroes because they told us stories about the gifted ones; Carmine Infantino with Adam Strange and the Flash, Joe Kubert with Sgt. Rock and Hawkman, Gardner Fox and Strange Adventures and so many others. Then Jack Kirby changed the Marvel Matrix and turned the weekly monster titles into "real" characters like Ben Grimm and Peter Parker. The industry went through serious changes and the creators became important and well known. Batman got on TV, then came Wonder Woman, and the Bionic Man (TV but really a comic book). Jump ahead and there's lots of comic companies, even though some are one man/woman shows or just a group of brothers, sisters, couples, friends who dreamed and worked well together. We could go on for pages about great works, great writers and artists but but here, we want to talk about the world of 2298 and Metrocity. Metrocity, it's the biggest city in the North American Union which contains a diverse population, everyday people and the extraordinary ones. The Union is the entire North American continent from the North pole to the radioactive waste sea where Panama once connected North America to South America. The Union will not tolerate any physical connection to any other soil, ...Read More