The end of the History and the last alien: the time under a historical perspective from North American dystopian comics in the late 20th century
Comics, dystopia, contemporary history, theory of history, time
This aim of this study is investigate the uses and the effects of temporal language of North American dystopian comics
contextualized in the late 1980s. The documents selected to this purpose were Jim Starlin’s four volumes of
Gilgamesh II (1989) published by DC Comics and Frank Miller’s first four volumes of Give Me Liberty (1990) from
Dark Horse Comics. Based on the idea that dystopias are interesting objects to reflect theory of history, the focus
of this chapter is discuss configurations of contemporary temporality from the form these comics portrays the time.