Next Man was
originally created by writer Roger McKenzie and artist Vince Argondezzi
for Comico back in 1985, the series which lasted for only five issues
told the story of David Boyd, an American soldier who was critically
wounded during the Vietnam War and frozen until medical science would be
sufficiently advanced enough to heal his injuries. Seventeen years
later an unscrupulous doctor used David as a guinea pig in a classified
government genetic experiment dubbed Project Stepping Stone,
which was intended to create an army of "Next Men" David Boyd was
revived possessing superpowers and thrust into a world he didn't
recognize, by a man he didn't trust, so he escaped from the project to
wander the United States while he figured out a way to stymie the goals
of Project Stepping Stone.
Dork Note: I always thought this character-verse had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, it has been dormant for over 30 years.
3 comments:
I must have overlooked this series in the 80's.
On the surface, it appears to have some similarities (inspired by perhaps?) Jack Kirby's Machine Man character/series.
Will be sure to keep an eye out for it on my next visit to a comic shop.
Machine Man with a healthy dose of Robo-Cop.
Not a bad combo at all!
This is one of those properties I would buy if I won the lottery!
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