Future Day

by Gene Day

Collection of SF comics stories by Gene Day.

Genres: Comics

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Howard Eugene Day was a Canadian comics artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Star Wars licensed series and Master of Kung Fu. He was considered a mentor by independent comic writer/artist Dave Sim.

Reviews

[Dominick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Early graphic novel--it in fact uses the term "album" (as in Europe) and is a collection of stories, not a single narrative, but it was created as a discrete, hardback, standalone title, not as a magazine or serial. Heavily influenced by EC and Star Wars, the stories here are mostly SF with twist endings. The twists are generally well-worn and predictable. Day had a remarkable sense of design, though; the stories are generally not particularly strong, but they are pretty cool to look at, with lush black and white art and some pretty awesome spaceships. Bonus: a few stories were lettered by Dave Sim.

[Joachim Boaz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

"Future Day (1979), a “graphic album,” contains seven “graphic stories” on themes of galactic conflict. It might be worth comparing Day’s rather nihilistic formulations of war and galactic expansion/conquest with the positivist depiction of heroic liberation in Star Wars. I would suggest that Day is deliberately responding to the phenomenon of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). The art and storylines are filled with indirect correlates to the Star Wars universe [...]"