Mister X Special (1990) #1
by Pete Milligan, Brett Ewins and others
This is billed as “Special no. 1”, which probably means that there was a bunch of Mister X specials planned, but this one was the only one published. It’s a 24-page black and white book, but with cardboard covers, and what was probably a scandalous price for its time: $3.
And they have the nerve to do a Lorem Ipsum text on the inside front cover. Anyway, let’s read the first three pages.
So this is about Mister X inventing a machine to allow himself to dream, and he dreams of his mother, and insects, and….
And then it turns out that the reason Mister X never sleeps isn’t because there’s so much to do and so little time to do it in, but because he doesn’t want to sleep, perchance to dream, because it turns out that he was SPOILERS sexually abused as a child.
*sigh*
You have the infinitely intriguing Radiant City concept to play with, and this is what you come up with? Could it be more dreary? Could it?
Well, I guess it could, because Ewins’ artwork is kinda fun. Sure, collages have been done, and these aren’t particularly inventive, but it could certainly have been worse.
I think this story was included in the Mister X: The Brides of Mister X and Other Stories collected edition from Dark Horse?
I couldn’t find any reviews of this story.
This blog post is part of the Into the Vortex series.