2020 Visions

    (Vertigo, 1997-1998, 2005)
™ and ©1997 Jamie Delano and DC Comics
Book #1 from Speakeasy Comics

Bleak visions of the future are nothing new for comic books, but Vertigo manages to be both original and compelling with its 2020 Visions. The book consists of four, three-issue story arcs, in which writer Jamie Delano gives a tour of a mad, but eerily plausible world of disease, desperate sex, renegade militias, and high technology.

The first story arc, “Lust For Life,” takes place in a divided Manhattan. The “Haves” live behind a wall which separates them from the “Have nots.” Alex Woycheck lives on the wrong side of the wall, having been forced out after the politically correct government decreed that the smut he peddled was against the law. Now he spends his days trading drugs and credit chips, searching out rare pornography to sell to collectors behind the wall. It wasn’t much, but it was a living—until he contracted the Plague. His days numbered, this outcast must search for the rumored cure, even as the outcasts in life avoid him.
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    #1
    May 1997
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: Frank Quitely
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    Jun 1997
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: Warren Pleece
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    #7
    Nov 1997
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: James Romberger
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    #9
    Jan 1998
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: James Romberger
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    #10
    Feb 1998
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: Steve Pugh
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    #11
    Mar 1998
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    #12
    Apr 1998
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  • Bk 1
    Book #1
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    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: Steve Pugh
    Collects series in black and white; From Speakeasy comics; ca. 2005
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  • Bk 1/HC
    Book #1 Hardcover
    Hardcover Edition
    May 2004
    Cover: $29.95
    W: Jamie Delano  ·  A: Steve Pugh
    Collects series; From Cyberosia; B&W
    1 copy for $59.98