Ex-Mutants Microseries – Erin #1
Printed by Pied Piper Comics circa 1987, this sold for $1.95 in the States, which was a modest chunk of change for me back then. I could get two color comics from the Big Two for that price. Last year, I picked this one up out of a dollar bin at Retro Reboot in Waycross, Ga. It only took me 30+ years to save .95 cents!
“Microseries” or one-shots as the rest of the world calls them were something of a feature in indie comics of the 80s. The Donatello microseries from TMNT was just about my favorite thing ever, but this one isn’t bad. You get some early but very nice Ron Lim art and a bit of good fan service. After all the whole Ex-Mutants concept really traded on the “sexy babes battle the post-apocalypse mutants” angle.
Erin, leader of the Ex-Mutants, goes skinny dipping and doesn’t seem very nonplussed when Scott, one of the more normal mutants in post-WWIII America happens upon her. He asks for her help finding his missing brother and sighs wistfully a lot while Erin poses for the camera. After a series of escapades, including an encounter with some of the more aggressive survivors and mutated poppies making Erin go ga-ga for her diminutive companion, Erin and the physically stunted Scott sit up all night, just talking.
My one regret is that, instead of the giant, gore-covered mutant baby from the cover (and one of the truly weird menaces of the original Ex-Mutants series), we got the giant, gore-covered Dundabud instead.
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