LOGAN’S WORLD #6

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan and Jessica have managed to escape with the help of Mary-Mary. Now they have to destroy the Thinker before Gant can reactivate it and control the world. They manage to steal some technician’s suits and infiltrate the compound. They get discovered and Mary-Mary is caught. Logan manages to lure Gant to him. They have a big fight where Logan wins. Then they free the captive workers and cause a rockslide to kill the other sandmen. They blow up the whole Crazy Horse Mountain and with it the Thinker.

The final to this series ends quite satisfactory. Logan defeats the evil Gant in his plan to rule the world. He is reunited with Jessica, and they can start to rebuild the world. Nolan wrote a good follow up to the first novel. This one was surprisingly darker with Logan losing his son. We see a Logan who uses his sandman skills quite ruthlessly. I believe that Adventure planned to adapt all three books, but the company didn’t last long enough. Too bad as I think Adventure was very skilled at adapting properties.

LOGAN’S WORLD #5

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adopted from novel by William F. Nolan

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan has tracked Gant to the Thinker. The former computer complex under the Crazy Horse Mountain in South Dakota. Only Gant was waiting for him and captures Logan. He takes him and tortures him in a simulated storm room. Then he gives him to Jessica. Only Logan’s mind is completely gone. Gant also has Jessica whip Logan for his own sick amusement. Fortunately, Mary-Mary 2 comes to rescue them. Mary-Mary 2 was a young girl the couple helped while on their run in Los Angeles.

This issue has Logan finally find Jessica. Only to be captured by the sadistic Gant and tortured into insanity. Gant is a very effective villain and seems to be rebuilding the Thinker. Possibly to gain control of the world. A fun story that gets more interesting as it goes.

LOGAN’S WORLD #4

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan takes the R-11 drug to live in his memories of his dead family. The drug though takes him through his whole live. We get to see him as a child. His time as a sandman. Finally with his son on Argos. The woman who sold him the drug wants to get his gun to sell. He isn’t dying quick enough, so she pumps gas into his room. The psychic twins who helped him manage to break him out of his drug induced coma. Logan breaks out and with the help of the twins manages to escape to their home on the west coast. He finds contentment with them until a visitor comes. He tells Logan Jessica is still alive. She was bought by Gant the former boss of Logan when he was a sandman. Gant hates Logan because he managed to successfully run.

This was a really good issue. We get some glimpses of Logan’s past. His upbringing and friends along the way. Some of his life on Argos. The big surprise is Jessica is still alive and in the hands of Logan’s worst enemy. The story is really picking up.

LOGAN’S WORLD #3

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan has tracked the Borgia gang to Cape Steinbeck. Here he confronts the gang and savagely kills them all. He finds out that Jessica is dead. Depressed he decides to go into a drug induced stupor that will let him relive his memories with his family. He has to go to New York and deal with Lacy 14. Logan manages to get the right amount of R-11.

This was another interesting installment. Logan gets revenge for the deaths of Jessica and Jaq. He can be very brutal when he needs to. So now Logan has decided to lose himself in a drug stupor to not deal with the loss of his family. Lacy 14 will allow him to stay at her place and take care of him. She doesn’t strike me as a reliable person. Should be interesting to see where this goes.

LOGAN’S WORLD #2

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan is captured by the group of scavengers in the city and forced to take a drug that gives him hallucinations. Meanwhile Jessica and his son are visited by the Borgia a violent gang that pretend to be the Borgias of Renaissance Italy. They kill Jaq and take Jessica to be raped and later sold into slavery. Logan manages to escape the scavengers because as a sandman he killed someone that was a threat to the gang’s leader and is let go. He arrives home and finds Jaq dead and Jessica gone. His friend tells him to visit a blind psychic in the ruins of San Francisco. He does and finds that Jessica and the gang are at Cape Steinbeck.

The second issue really starts to turn up the excitement. Logan loses his son Jaq. Jessica is kidnapped by a very violent gang. Logan digs out his old pistol and vows to hunt them down. The second novel was much more about revenge and survival whereas the first was more a mystery and chase.

LOGAN’S WORLD #1

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan

It has been 10 years since Logan and Jessica made it to Sanctuary. Sanctuary is Argos a space station around Mars. Only the supply ships have stopped coming and the colony is dying. Logan, Jessica and their son Jaq along with some others leave for Earth. They find that Ballard the renegade Sandman has destroyed the Thinker. Society has fallen and Logan and family take up in a home in Washington D.C.

Jaq gets sick and Logan must go into the city to get medicine. He finds it but now has to survive a gang of scavengers out to hunt him for sport. Meanwhile another group of scavengers have found Logan’s home where his family is living.

The second book in the trilogy now gets its adaptation. I remember reading this book years ago, so my mind is a bit fuzzy on what happens. I really am enjoying it so far. Logan now has to contend with a world where society has collapsed, and it is even more dangerous than the one from the first book. He now has a son to look after giving him a much more sympathetic feel for the character. Adventure does it once again with very well-done writing and not so well-done art.

LOGAN’S RUN #6

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan and Jessica have reached old Washington D.C. Now the city has been abandoned since the great Little War of 2000 that brought the young to power. It is now mostly a swamp filled with animals that escaped from the zoo. They have to battle tigers and anacondas but make their way to the Library of Congress where Ballard is. They meet the 42-year-old who survived because there was a malfunction in his palm flower. Logans wants to kill him but can’t and Ballard will kill Logan, but Jessica knocks him out.

The two make their way through Pittsburgh and into Florida with Francis following them. They reach Cape Steinbeck for a rocket that will take them to Sanctuary. A space colony around Mars. Francis comes and it is revealed that he was Ballard in disguise. Logan and Jessica escape to a new life in Sanctuary.

This was an exciting issue. It had a very surprise ending that I didn’t see coming. Fascinating they though the world’s population would continue to get younger back in the sixties. The reality was that by 2000 the young were in a minority and declining. At least in the West. I enjoyed this immensely and see all the similarities and differences between the book and movie. Adventure planned to adapt all three novels and did get around to the second. I have actually read the second book and someday hope to reread it and find the next series Logan’s World.

LOGAN’S RUN #5

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan and Jessica escape from the gypsies but not before the leader destroys their flying cycles. Jessica lands in a nursery and is taken by the kids to a medical devise. Logan manages to rescue her and at Rapid City they hijack a mazecar. It takes them to Fredericksburg in Viriginia where android armies reenact the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Logan gets separated from Jessica and winds up in a life-drawer which lets the user relive their past. Logan relives time as a child and his training as a sandman. He eventually reunites with Jessica, and they continue their journey.

This was a really cool issue. They decided to begin with filling us in on what happened between the issues with a written page on the inside cover. Then we have this wild ride to a Civil War battlefield that reenacts using androids. We also get a good look at Logan’s life as a child growing up in this dystopia. The tough training as sandman where you kill rattlesnakes and eat them raw. Sandmen have a one-track determination to catch runners. We can see the training helps Logan in being a runner. Very different from the movie and I love it.

LOGAN’S RUN #4

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm adapted from novel by Williamm F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan and Jessica have reached the Crazy Horse Mountain in South Dakota. It is the location of The Thinker, the massive computer that runs the world. Logan has to fight off mechanical crows and a robot sentinel, but they penetrate the complex and find out the next stop on their quest for Ballard. Francis his friend finds him, but they manage to escape in a tunnel they find. They are then captured by Pleasure Gypsies and forced to have sex. After Jessica is poisoned, Logan takes a woman hostage and gets the antidote. He has Jessica get away on a flying rocket cycle.

This was a fascinating story. They get to the place where the computer that controls the world is and find the next stop on their journey. They have adventures with robots and some suicidal group determined to die before their life clocks run out. It was a strange adventure and ends with a cliffhanger that you want to read the next issue to find out.

LOGAN’S RUN #3

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Writers: Barry Blair, Tom Mason and Chris Ulm based on novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

Artist: Barry Blair

Logan and Jessica arrive in the underwater city of Molly. Molly is a failed attempt at starting a city under the sea. The only person there is a big guy named Whale with a harpoon gun. He tries to drown Logan because he is a sandman, but Jessica saves him. They continue on to the next stop. An arctic penal colony called Hell. Here Logan has to fight one of the inmates and wins. Only the place is very grim and when they are given the heart and liver of the guy Logan had to kill, they decide to leave. The journey takes them to Box a cyborg. Box is nuts and spends his time making animals out of ice. He sculpts Logan and Jessica in return for showing them the way out. Box then tries to capture and torture the two. Logan collapses the place on Box’s head. They find a mazecar and will go to the Black Hills in Dakota to find Ballard the leader of the runners.

I loved this installment of the adaptation. So that is what the original novel envisioned Box as. I can see the inspiration for the demented robot from the movie. There is some tension between Jessica and Logan, but it seems to be dissipating as the two share their survival adventures. A really fun comic.