Slow Death #4

Certification #: 0226766003 Slow Death 4 Issue 11/72 Issue 1972 Last Gasp 6.0 Page OFF-WHITE Grade 03/27/2014 Universal Art Tom Veitch story, Richard Corben cover Richard Corben & George Metzger story & art, Greg Irons & Jack Jackson art Key Magnus Robot Fighter parody. George Metzger leads off Slow Death #4 with a story about a drug-happy hippy who is given a "truth" pill by a mysterious "religious nut" and discovers the world is populated with robots (he shoulda stuck with the acid). Greg Irons and Tom Veitch give us a futuristic world (29 years into the 2001) where pot is legal but being straight isn't. We get another robot tale a few pages later from Richard Corben and it doesn't end any better than the first one. The book closes with a rare collaboration between Tom Veitch and Jack Jackson called "Homesick," which features a man on a distant planet from his native Earth, who is watching over a colony of mutants and hoping a passing spaceship will finally take him back to Earth. After many years, he gets his wish, but discovers that being homesick was really just a waste of time. COMIC Ron Turner - editor, 35 (text) Richard Corben - 1, 17-26 Dave Sheridan - 2, 36 (ad) George Metzger - 3-10 Greg Irons - 11-16 (art) Tom Veitch - 11-16 (script), 27-34 (script) Jack Jackson - 27-34 (art) Eric Kimball - 35 AF & Army GIs of the First Air Cavalry - 35 (poem)