One more tragic connection between Michael Jackson and comics
The one Michael Jackson comics reference I haven’t seen mentioned yet is from Wasteland #16 from DC Comics, in a story entitled “Heartshadow” written by John Ostrander and drawn by Rick Magyar. It’s a story where a young fan of “a dark prince named Michael” commits suicide.
Now, in the wake of Jackson’s death, reports are coming in of Michael Jackson fans committing suicide:
Fans of MICHAEL JACKSON have
been hit hard by the star’s death – 12 devotees have allegedly killed
themselves following the tragic news.The King Of Pop passed away on Thursday (25Jun09) from a cardiac arrest and millions of his fans worldwide went into mourning.
But several of them found it too hard to cope and subsequently
ended their own lives, according to the founder of an online Jackson
fanclub.
Gary Taylor, president and owner of MJJcommunity.com, says, “I
know there has been an increase (in deaths), I now believe the figure
is 12. It is a serious situation that these people are going through
but Michael Jackson would never want this. He would want them to live.
“They (fans) can’t accept it, they feel in some sort of different
reality. I’m stunned that he’s dead. One minute he is coming here for
concerts and the next he is gone. I think the funeral will be where the
reality kicks in that he is gone and won’t be coming back, there will
be a huge depression in the fan community when that happens.”
You can tell Wasteland is an old comic. It's from back in the days when Michael Jackson was brown. Wasteland was a good anthology. Does DC own the name "Wasteland"? It would be nice to see another open anthology of sci-fi, autobiography and general strange again. Something like Munden's Bar, but even more open ended than that. A place where writers and artists could come play and muck about in a big sandbox filled with weird.
Russ- I don't think names of books can be copyrighted. In any case, DC doesn't own the name Wasteland- there is currently another comic series being published by another publisher also called "Wasteland". Don't remember any details, just remember seeing it in the Diamond catalogue.
The story was based SOMEWHAT on an incident involving someone I knew. The LOGO for Wasteland was trademarked but you can't copyright a word that's in the dictionary.– John