![]() In the early issues of Love and Rockets, Jaime Hernandez’s “Hoppers 13” characters originally appeared in science fiction stories. Those interests were what initially drew me to the works of the Hernandez Brothers (Jaime, Gilbert, and Mario) and their groundbreaking comic Love and Rockets-which I began reading in 1983 with the fifth issue of the series (the first to be published by Fantagraphics, though they reprinted the initial four as well). In other words, I want to re-live the past for a few paragraphs.īack in 1984, I was a student who was into (among other things, and in no particular order): Punk rock, comic books, and science fiction (especially dystopian fiction). The first Mister X series appeared just one year after Motter began to develop the concept-and that fact leads me to thoughts that I want to express before I express my thoughts about this first issue of Motter’s new series. ![]() Finally, 25 years later, Motter is bringing his original concept to fruition as both writer and illustrator of Mister X: Condemned-though this is not the first Mister X series that Motter has produced. ![]() Back in 1983, writer and graphic designer Dean Motter envisioned a comic book series set in a dystopian city with buildings that evoked The Bauhaus style of architecture. ![]()
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