2020 Visions

2020 Visions (sometimes called 20/20 Visions) is a science-fiction comic book written by Jamie Delano and drawn by four artists. Originally serialized as a twelve-issue full-color limited series from 1997 to 1998 at the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, it was later collected as a black-and-white volume in a 2004 hardcover from Cyberosia Publishing and a 2005 softcover from Speakeasy Comics.

2020 Visions
Cover of 2020 Visions #1.
Publication information
PublisherVertigo
ScheduleMonthly
FormatLimited series
Publication dateMay 1997 - April 1998
No. of issues12
Creative team
Created byJamie Delano
Collected editions
HardcoverISBN 0-9742713-4-9
SoftcoverISBN 0-9737039-9-7

Overview

The series consists of four different stories told over three issue arcs, each having its own artist, and each blending a different genre with prospective science-fiction:

  1. "Lust For Life" - horror-like (art by Frank Quitely, covers by John Eder)
  2. "La Tormenta" - crime-like (art by Warren Pleece, covers by John Eder)
  3. "Renegade" - western-like (art by James Romberger, covers by Stephen John Phillips)
  4. "Repro Man" - romance-like (art by Steve Pugh, covers by Stephen John Phillips)

With all stories taking place in the year 2020, the four stories were loosely connected by a genetic relationship between the main protagonist of each tale.

Reception

Publishers Weekly described the story as "William Burroughs-influenced squalor and grotesquerie [...] There are plenty of clever ideas here." [1]

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a couple of volumes:

  • 2020 Visions (12-issue series, DC/Vertigo, 1997-1998) collected as:
    • 2020 Visions (hardcover, Cyberosia Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-9742713-4-9)
    • 2020 Visions (softcover, Speakeasy Comics, 2005, ISBN 0-9737039-9-7)
    • 2020 Visions (Italian language) (softcover, Green Comm Services, 2012 ISBN 978-88-90788-50-5)

Notes
  1. Backcover of the collected edition.
gollark: I don't think anyone is going to take claims that influenza is not contagious very seriously unless you have extremely good evidence and an explanation of how *else* flu pandemics work.
gollark: People are very bad at actually preparing for possible threats.
gollark: Insisting on a solution which absolutely covers all cases and refusing to acknowledge ones that don't is very harmful.
gollark: No solution is perfect. Nobody is claiming it's perfect. But it's better than nothing.
gollark: Then you won't know about them, I guess. In the US and EU and whatever they're pretty common, though.

References
  • "Afterword" by Jamie Delano, in 2020 Visions (softcover), Speakeasy Comics, 2005, ISBN 0-9737039-9-7, pp. 294–295
  • 2020 Visions at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)


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