Hot girl on girl action with Angelina Jolie, too. I was wondering where I had seen her while watching "Lost," and then it hit me, she was in "Gia" and on "E.R." Then I got to thinking, "Lost" is essentially a dramatic version of "GHilligan's Island." They've done this before, too. "Land of the Giants," "Space: 1999," "Quantum Leap," and "Star Trek: Voyager" have all managed to get some milage out the "stuck people trying to get home" plot.
Has this been done in comics, and how well? The two example which came to mind for me were when the Legion was split up a couple times at the beginning of the Baxter series and again a little bit after zero hour. Also, the West Coast Avengers were stranded in time for a while, but to be honest, I found those storylines annoying, and I like Lost. So, has this ever worked in comics?
Posted by Mike Chary at April 11, 2007 11:11 PM
In a sense, the Odyssey is about a person trying to get home. As you say, old plot.
I think the Lost set-up is too static to work in comics, and a more general lost-person-on-quest...protagonists in comics usually leave home to go on quests. I can't think of a sustained, long storyline that involved characters trying to get back home.
Hey, isn't one of the 52 storylines about people trying to get home? The Odyssey is a special case, because Odysseus took off a few years to hang out with a sexpot on an island.
I'd totally start watching Lost if they had sleestaks.
Hell, I'd watch Gray's Anatomy if it had sleestaks.
Might I direct your attention toward a little comic book called "Bone"?
Wasn't Squadron Supreme stuck in the Marvel Universe for a while?
I'd totally start watching Lost if they had sleestaks.
I'm all for sending Bill Laimbeer to a desert island that he can't escape from.
Daredevil left NY to go upstate after taking a pounding from the Kingpin and Typhoid Mary in issue #267 and didn't wander back until issue #284.
Well, there's Marvel's Exiles series, where the title characters spent the first 65+ issues trying to get back to their home realities. (The status quo has changed somewhat since then.)