Urban Sprawl in Comics Redux?

[dewline]

The latest version of Legion of Super-Heroes mentioned something interesting in passing in a recent issue written by Mark Waid: their version of 31st Century Metropolis runs across nearly the entire North American Atlantic seaboard.

Question: how chilling(or not) do you find the implications of a single city running all the way from Cape Breton to Key West?

Yours, whilst still wishing I'd gotten that Daily Planet Guide to the Legion Worlds project with West End Games past the outline stage,

Dwight

Comments

[dannydonovan.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think that it's not only something we're used to in comics by now (ala Judge Dredd's MEGA CITY 1, which encompases the whole east coast, while MEGA CITY 2 encompases all of the west coast, with what's left inbetween being wastelands) I think it's quite possibly something that could in fact happen.

Probably not over here because we have tight grasp on our "territories" more money to be made for Washington with hundreds of politicos running around instead of a few representing a dozen districts.

But I would think, it would make for an easier economic control, and crime control as you don't have to worry about butting heads with another city/state's jurisdiction, and losing the criminal in paperwork....

One thing that really surprised me is that the Legion future is coming to pass, in the recent issue of Action Comics (by Busiek and Johns) there's a reference to an upstart branch of the SCU called the "Tech Squad" which has been nicknamed by the public as the science police

Interesting.....

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Point well taken on conditioning provided by series such as Judge Dredd...