Comments on: Friday in the City of Domes

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:07:57 +0000

For those of you who want to read the Logan books, but don’t want to buy them, try your local public library. If your local library doesn’t own them, ask them to do an interlibrary loan for you.

Cheers,
Eric

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:18:01 +0000

Is that a Jim Steranko cover on issue #6 of the Marvel series?

No, I believe that’s Paul Gulacy.

By: Ben Herman

Ben Herman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:15:55 +0000

Is that a Jim Steranko cover on issue #6 of the Marvel series? It looks a lot like his work.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:39:13 +0000

Z.P.G is it!

Much like Logan’s, pretty campy and good for a laugh at the start, but you’ll fall asleep by the end when it gets all preachy.
That said, it doesn’t have the horror of Ustinov in it’s third act.

By: Austrev

Austrev — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:39:02 +0000

was that Z.P.G . -zero population growth? 1971-Oliver Reed & Geraldine Chaplin…?

By: Basara

Basara — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55:49 +0000

Frankly, I’d prefer it if Nolan had used the movie’s 30 for the age, instead of 21.

21 is too young for the Sandmen to be properly trained to be effective for more than a year; and by his lecture example age of 40, most would really be too old.

Other than that, I’ve always liked the stories, even the campy TV series. It’s just that the 21-year-old cut-off date gives me major suspension-of -disbelief issues.

By: RAB

RAB — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:02 +0000

FGJ, is this the one? I never saw the film but remembered the title.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:29:32 +0000

There’s a movie I watched once, set in a distopia of sorts, where youth are banned – basically no kids anywhere – until one couple have a baby, and try to hide it from everyone.
People start to find out (and want the baby), and so they go on the run, and the film ends with them crossing an ocean and starting again with their child on a new land.

I believe it came out before Logans Run – and the geeky joke at the time was that the kid grew up to become Logan!

(This would of course work better if I could remember the films name – I saw it a a pub that screens cult movies on tuesday night’s, and so I had a few whilst watching it so it,s a bit blurry – all I remember is the couple worked in a museum, and their job was to re-enact every day scenes from the 20th Century, and so every night they and another couple would have dinner together and talk about swinging. Truly).

By: Adam Tyner

Adam Tyner — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:45:05 +0000

And yeah, Browne played Box. Not sure if he actually climbed into that rig or if it was just the voice work, but it was him.

Yeah, he did. I was rewatching the movie on Blu-ray a week or two back, and there are a couple of angles where you can see his skin underneath the metallic exterior.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:34:12 +0000

Wow, dude, look at the cover of the first Logan novel, it’s groooovy! But seriously, I (barely) remember being baffled by covers on books like that in the 70s. Especially if they had nothing to do with the actual story.

The cover on the Malibu series, however, is just awful- Logan looks effeminate!

I know Logan only from the TV series- though I MAY have seen the York movie later on TV, I don’t remember well- but I remember being unclear on the whole premise: why did people have to die at a certain age? To avoid overpopulation? Because adults turn evil? What?

(Btw, I was reminded of Logan’s Run in, of all places, an episode of the Kids Next Door cartoon. Not only WERE adults (or at least some of them) evil oppressors of children, but the kids had to ritually erase the memory of any of their agents when they turned 13, and one agent disagrees and escapes, only to be hunted down by the others. Kinda creepy for a kid’s show.)

By: chad

chad — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:51:47 +0000

i actullly remember the tv show and to me it tried to keep the core though still thought i t could have been better and the movie besides jessica casting their take on trying to do box i though was some what okay. as for a new version one can only hope Joel and company try and do Logans run right finaly or a least have brian singer who was the last to plan to bring the thing to the big screen give them some input. but given the track record of Logans run when it comes to other media will not hold my breath

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:45:10 +0000

From what I can remember about the Marvel series (I was also bummed that the continuation was cut off), the deal with the abrupt cancellation was that Marvel thought that they had more freedom with the rights than they actually did.
I remember reading somewhere (can’t remember for the life of me where, though) that as soon as MGM/Nolan/someone else in the rights/production chain saw that the story was being continued past Marvel’s basic licence to just adapt the film, lawyers were instructed to order them to stop, which they had to do.
Anyone else recall anything like this?

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:56:07 +0000

Incidentally, one of the early ebook experiments many years ago was Logan's Return, a novella by William F. Nolan. I missed the ebook (the company wasn't around for long), but Nolan also sold signed manuscript versions, and I got one of those. Dunno if it's still available. 57 pages double-spaced, printed on one side, hole-punched, signed on the front page.

It's out there. Bit rich for my blood.... all of them were signed, it was a special thing Nolan did for the fan association. Which means even the secondhand copies are priced way up there. And yeah, Browne played Box. Not sure if he actually climbed into that rig or if it was just the voice work, but it was him.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:33:08 +0000

I didn’t realise Roscoe Lee Brown was in Logan’s Run. (I haven’t seen it since it was shown on TV right before the series started.) Did he play Box?

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:14:37 +0000

Kraft and Perez also did, of all things, the Man-Wolf series in Creatures on the Loose and a couple of issues of Marvel Premiere. They’re not as good as the Logan’s Run comic, though, since…well, they’re about the Man-Wolf instead.

By: Steve Roby

Steve Roby — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:49:29 +0000

I’ll give Bluewater’s comic a shot, but their Tom Corbett, Space Cadet revival is not very good at all, so I’ll keep my expectations low.

Incidentally, one of the early ebook experiments many years ago was Logan’s Return, a novella by William F. Nolan. I missed the ebook (the company wasn’t around for long), but Nolan also sold signed manuscript versions, and I got one of those. Dunno if it’s still available. 57 pages double-spaced, printed on one side, hole-punched, signed on the front page.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:28:39 +0000

Only the first issue from Marvel was scripted by Gerry Conway; the next four issues completing the movie adaptation were written by David Anthony Kraft.

Ouch. I KNEW that, damn it. It flew right out of my head as I was typing though. Fixed now — thanks for catching it.

By: RAB

RAB — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:24:51 +0000

Only the first issue from Marvel was scripted by Gerry Conway; the next four issues completing the movie adaptation were written by David Anthony Kraft.

I’d recommend those issues to any aspiring comic book creators, regardless of the subject matter: on a purely technical level, both Kraft and Perez used every storytelling trick available to them to fit a ton of dialogue and action into each page without it seeming dense or bogged down. It still reads at a snappy pace despite how much is crammed in there. If you can find it, it’s worth studying how they pulled it off.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:21:47 +0000

I bought the original film sight unseen for a few bucks, figuring it’d be a kooky fun time. It was pretty awful, however, occasionally in a fun way, which isn’t quite what I was going for. I especially like the reflection of the camera crew on Box. Then, of course, Peter Ustinov shows up and acts circles around everybody, and pow! It’s over!

I’d quake in fear of Michael Bay remaking it, but he sort of already did, with The Island– which, yes, probably owes more to MST3K favorite The Clonus Horror, but there’s a lot of Logan’s Run in there, too.

By: Edo Bosnar

Edo Bosnar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:04:34 +0000

My first exposure to Logan’s Run was that frankly pretty lousy Harrison/Menzies TV series. I was only about 9/10 years old at the time, but I still remember thinking it wasn’t much better than some of those Saturday morning SF dramas (like that one you mentioned, Ark II). So I never gave it much thought until I saw scans of some pages of Marvel’s comic on a blog a few years back – and I’m still going back & forth on whether or not to buy that.
Your review of the book(s) has definitely made me add them to my want list, but you’re right: even the mass market paperback editions from the 70s/80s aren’t exactly cheap (I mean less than $2/3 because I’m already paying through the nose to have them shipped to Europe). What really surprised me is that it’s pretty much impossible to find any edition of Logan’s Search for less than $20. Ouch.