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

[miraclo.livejournal.com]

Caveat: I haven't read farther in the current, recently re-named Legion series than what was covered in the two trade editions, so I can't comment on the rest of the context, only on the notion of a huge urban complex running up and down the coast.

To quickly echo a few of the comments:

It's something future-focused fiction fans have had more than enough prep for this sort of thing. I'll even toss Chaykin's Plex approach into the mix of examples, where not only are huge regions linked but more and more of it is sealed in. Cities not only spreading and linking, but in many ways taking on the feel of huge malls.

Also, it's not something that I - a lifelong suburbanite who would prefer to spend more time in mountainous wilderness regions - would likely enjoy. I understand the utility of cities, but it requires a different mindset than I have. I'd likely find myself cocooning in my own space (not so different from spending all the hours I do indoors, in front of various monitors) or I'd either shift towards depression or homicidal impulses.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is, I find myself caught between the two "worlds" as it were. I was born out in Saskatchewan, with all the migration between city house and farm house --= both ways -- that implies for some, and for all that I find the city as presently surrounds me congenial, I still like the idea of green space being there, and equally importantly, being in abundance.

Common ground there, Mike...