KAMANDI Last Boy on Earth as Wargaming?

[Lagartija Mike]

An old 70's DC comic by Jack Kirby, almost a blend of Planet of the Apes and Mad Max. Has surprisingly cool bits that could play out on the skirmish to big battle levels. Has anyone else heard of it?

[Sir Walter Rlyeh]

I always loved that comic.  I think you can get it in hardback form.  I have gone back and picked up a lot of the weird Kirby titles that way.  I have never gamed it but then again, I have never had a bunch of Tiger Romans or Leopard pirates!

[Lagartija Mike]

I came across a bunch cheap at a yard sale and bought the rest online, great crazy stuff. I love the vaguely Soviet-style Gorillas and the marauding Pumas and Sacker's sort of Confederate-style Cheetahs.

[The Gray Ghost]

It's loaded with possibilities but what do you use for figures

[Lagartija Mike]

It's a problem, and well beyond some quick green prosthetics. I'm trying to find animal heads/hands in 28mm scale and I'm coming up empty.

[Hobby Services]

The figures are the trickiest part.  The setting itself works well for a very four-color post-apocalypse with lots of different feuding forces and battles scaling from tiny skirmishes to massed battles (one story arc even has a "Charge of the Light Brigade" fight with anthropomorphic British bulldogs defending Canada against Sacker's pirate leopards).  There's a world map or two online, has a ton of countries and factions that the comic never got around to doing anything with.  There's even aquatic stuff, which might be doable with some of the Deep Wars minis and kitbashes from museum/naturalist toys.

[Lagartija Mike]

There's no way I can modify a pre-existing figure into the "Red Baron", it's going to have to be a ground up sculpt.

[Dr Mathias]

Now I'm intrigued...

[northtroll]

I'll have to reread the copy of Kamandi from the library again!  You might have to settle for some proxies or modified figures in the end. Neat idea though.

[shadowking1957]

One of Uncle Jacks best  DC series, and agree with all wonderful stuff, this and Thundarr make  all things possible




that picture made me what to draw.

[Lagartija Mike]

It's non-canonical but a scenario where an armored Russian Civil War type train garrisoned with Sacker's leopards has to make it through the Dominion of the Devils might be fun....

[Hobby Services]

Occurs to me that if you can get your hands on some of the Devil Bat figures from the old Great Rail Wars games and add some clothing to them, you've got one side of a game set in/around the Tracking Site.  Coming up with the servomek opposition should be easier than most things in the book, there are lots of androids out there.  Might even be able to use sculpting dummies with some added putty.

Bob Naismith sculpted some very Kirby-inspired figs in Old Glory's Superfigs range.  Probably find some useable stuff there, and all at the insane 40% off retail if you're an OG Army member.

Wonder if you could adapt some Traveller figs (15mm or 28mm) to use as well.  Aslan and Vargr seem like they'd fit.

[The Gray Ghost]

One of Uncle Jacks best  DC series, and agree with all wonderful stuff, this and Thundarr make  all things possible
I've always wondered where Thundarr would fit into this universe, maybe after OMAC failed and before Kamandi.

[FATROC]

You know what? I seem to remember reading these as a kid!  I think Reaper minis has some models that would lend themselves to re-creating this on the table top.

[Lagartija Mike]

Strangely enough the grandly out of tune Saturday Morning programming that was Thundarr was actually designed by the same guy who did Johnny Quest. I always thought it was Kirby and I don't doubt it was highly irradiated by the trademark Kirby Brain Radiation.