Issues #6-10 of ‘Teknophage’ take a different tack under writer Paul Jenkins and artist Al Davison. These neat touches add depth and flavour to the complex plot. There’s a Sublimey machine to broadcast subliminal messages on television and lure people into sin.
The white collar workers are kept going with Koffup, a brown drink that contains adrenaline. My favourite was Baron Wasteland who salutes his master by thumping his chest and shouting ‘Hideous Rex’. Various underlings compete to impress him. His useful heavy mob are the Vulgar Bootmen, robots powered by human souls He roams the world in his mobile office block which is powered by a furnace using a mixture of steam hydraulics and alchemy. The story is about nasty capitalism as the Teknophage runs a gigantic, evil corporation which chews people up and spits them out, often literally.
The bright, gaudy colouring is a major factor in the art. The first five issues of ‘Teknophage’ were written by Rick Veitch, pencilled by Bryan Talbot and inked and coloured by Angus McKie. He also discovered that humans could be easily tempted to evil acts by lust for wealth and had great fun with that, building a vast commercial empire.Īfter the introductory tale, there are two longer stories divided into instalments. Then he discovered wormholes and could travel between dimensions to alternate versions of his home planet: Avalon, Albion and Earth. When apes evolved into humans, he found them particularly tasty and, consuming their souls along with their bodies, gave him long life. He was born into the dominant reptilian species on the world of Kalighoul and killed all his rivals. It’s an odd introduction but sort of sets the stage.Īfter that, the comic is all about Teknophage, a devil of a villain. Hero, Lady Justice and the Teknophage meet in a slum and swap stories. This introduces us to a desolate and desperate world called Albion, where Adam Cain, Mr. # 1 opens with a story from Wheel Of Worlds # 0, plotted by Neil Gaiman and John Ney Reiber. When bust followed boom, they all went under but have been reissued in book form by the enterprising people at NBM/Papercutz under their Super Genius imprint. Hero’ and ‘Lady Justice’, which tied together one big cosmic story in a way pioneered by Jack Kirby with his ‘New Gods’ epic. The result was three titles, ‘Teknophage’, ‘Mr. Neil Gaiman, a rising star then, a superstar now, was invited to come up with concepts to be scripted by others. Comics were booming and they thought the time was ripe for it. ‘Teknophage’ is one of several comics published back in the early 1990s by Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, who created the Sci-Fi Channel.
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