Anyone who was a Marvel Comics fan in the 1980s remembers John Byrne’s Last Galactus story, on
Anyone who was a Marvel Comics fan in the 1980s remembers John Byrne’s Last Galactus story, one of the great unfinished stories of all time. A mixture of classic Marvel and the weird, adult, mindblowing and concept centered scifi magazines that started to come into existence, it was set 10 billion years in the future, with Galactus devouring a dead earth, and wondering why the stars were winking out of existence. It’s a detective story where Galactus is the detective. It’s full of mournful and strange imagery, like the last surviving inhabitant of the earth, a robot programmed only with the complete works of Shakespeare, and colossal galactic structures that you can cross at lightspeed. It was all the more fascinating to fans because it remained unfinished. John Byrne discussed his ideas on it, here, including some thoughts on how he would have finished it. Hint: we would have learned the true purpose of Galactus’s existence, as the key to rebuild whatever comes after the universe. -- source link
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