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It's unfortunate that the word 'mutant' has been used. Most people tend to associate that word with superheros and people with gills or three eyes or some other 'useful' mutation. Whether it's toxicity or radiation causing it, all the 'mutations' are really nothing more than what we would know as birth defects or sickness.

DetritusMaximus wrote:It's unfortunate that the word 'mutant' has been used. Most people tend to associate that word with superheros and people with gills or three eyes or some other 'useful' mutation. Whether it's toxicity or radiation causing it, all the 'mutations' are really nothing more than what we would know as birth defects or sickness.

Yes I remember mentions of "mutants" in the past had me seriously worried about the direction Fury Road might be going.

a lot of people are suggesting that the mutations could only occur from the effects of the nuclear war, but i think it could be linked back to pollution or some kind of contamination from something like chernobyl or fukishima, remember the voice in the background in the scene where Fifi is telling max to watch out for the Knightrider's friends, you here the lady wandering around in the background say "its in the water",plus Benno and Blaster show a common theme and could be suggesting that the environmental poisoning started earlier.

It was saying in the comic that the entire environment was contaminated so Joe was trying to build a special dome to keep his brides in a clean area so they could breed without defects, only he and his sons were privileged enough to breath clean air.

so the ages of Joe's sons and the existence of mutants may not be a good clue in the determination of the exact time frame between events because they could have been born mutated even before the limited nuclear exchange.

Suppose Mad Max 1 takes place in a fictional version of 2010, where Max is about 20-22 years old and where history diverges from reality around 9/11/ 2001 and spirales into the Oil wars. The war is not in Australia directly, but gas is like $9 a litre then you have the scenes in the comic that lead you to the era of the Road Warrior when there is no power or international trade and where Joe is much like Humungus, only he is a more succesful version. So then by 20 or so years later when fury takes place Max only has to be about 45 or so. It could work. Maybe Joe's bad day IS 9/11, and Fury is 12405 days after that in the year 2034 or so. The comic shows 4 dates and one of them is 9/11. that is what set me on that train of thought.

When explaining power went out permanently, Issue #1 might be referring to a nuclear EMP. Australia could have been hit by an EMP generated by nuclear weapons detonating elsewhere, or a nuclear weapon that was purposely detonated high in the atmosphere above Australia to cause a large-scale EMP to target Australia's power grid.

Cars with engines controlled by computers would be disabled by the nuclear EMP. Older cars without computers may still function. This could explain why wasteland gangs would have vehicles from the early 1980s, 1970s and older times.

The novel "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen described what happened when a nuclear weapon was detonated high in the atmosphere above the U.S., creating a nuclear EMP across the entire country, destroying all electrical power for the U.S. There is a battle scene in the later half of the novel that mentions Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

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BTW, digital edition is available on Comixology too.

Thats pretty interesting art from comics, we clearly can see 2 MFP cars, Roop and Charlie, and maybe a some guy from March Hare crew. But in this scene Joe is much younger than in movie, like in his late 30s or maybe 40s and Max if he was from MFP at this time need to be a much much older in Fury Road, maybe a little bit younger than Joe.

ok where in Australia can we get these comics? anyone ordered them yet ?

Artemis Flow wrote:ok where in Australia can we get these comics? anyone ordered them yet ?

At any comic shop.

Oh my god some people are overthinking it. It's just a few fun callbacks.

A Gang Called Turbulence wrote:Oh my god some people are overthinking it. It's just a few fun callbacks.

FUN being the operative word when dealing with fiction, for some people it is overthinking, for others it is just the right amount of thinking to make it fun.

This comic is SOLD OUT everywhere around here and I wish i would have bought more than just the one copy when I had the chance. It is going for 3x cover price and more already on ebay. But that shouldn't really be a surprise as it is the first ever Mad Max comic and was long overdue.

Max should be at least 55 in "Fury Road" in order to make the original trilogy fit in the Fury Road world.