World Without End (comics)

World Without End is a six-issue comic book limited series, created by Jamie Delano[1] and illustrated by John Higgins, released by DC Comics in 1990.

World Without End
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
ScheduleMonthly
FormatLimited series
Genre
Publication dateNovember 1990 – April 1991
No. of issues6
Creative team
Created byJamie Delano
John Higgins
Written byJamie Delano
Artist(s)John Higgins
Letterer(s)Richard Starkings
Colorist(s)John Higgins
Editor(s)Karen Berger
Tom Peyer
Collected editions
The Complete CollectionISBN 0486808394

Publication history

Delano created the series between his run on Hellblazer and Animal Man.[2]

Delano has said:

After four years of Hellblazer, WWE felt like an opportunity to cut lose into a world of outrageous language and sumptuous imagery… and no-one held us back. The scenario of the story is fantastical and allegorical rather than speculatively futuristic. I guess its themes are more broadly philosophical than some of the specific socio/political trends I have engaged with through the more near-future settings of works such as 2020 Visions, Hellblazer: Bad Blood and Narcopolis, etc.[3]

Plot summary

The story involves a battle of the sexes in the future.

Reception

Black Gate magazine describe the series as "everything comics have the potential to achieve…a psychic thought-bomb of words and pictures that blew my mind to bloody smithereens."[4] They finished their review by saying that World Without End is:

a science fiction allegory mixed with fantasy adventure, told with style and skill that any comic creator has to envy. It’s a glorious, mad excursion into a world of erotic dreams and brutal nightmares. Jamie Delano’s power to evoke an entirely strange world ranks with that of sci-fi grandmaster Jack Vance. John Higgins’ stunning paints, his storytelling ability, his dynamic use of color to create surreal moods and absurd realities, it’s all the stuff of legend.[4]

Collected editions

Dover Books has collected the series into a single volume with an afterword by Stephen R. Bissette:

  • World Without End: The Complete Collection (hardcover, 192 pages, October 2016, ISBN 978-0486808390)

Notes
  1. "Jamie Delano". Tjscomics.com. April 4, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
  2. Trail Blazers: Interviews with Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis, by David Carroll, Bloodsongs #8, 1997
  3. Matheny, Joseph (December 23, 2007). "Jamie Delano's Narcopolis". Alterati. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
  4. Fultz, John R. (July 30, 2010). "Exploring the WORLD WITHOUT END". Black Gate. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
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