Hee! I did the coloring for the MK #2 cover. I don't remember the details, but the colorist vanished or flaked or something, and I ended up whipping that up overnight in an emergency and taking it to Matt's place on a zip disk.

Oh yeah, and I remember Matt being pissed that one of the glints of the lens flare on #1 ended up right on the central character's crotch.

Bwah hah!

I have all the issues listed here as well. I think Max Blackrabbit was supposed to do something for MK.

I think you're the second person I've ever seen who actually read all of The Last Generation.
Don't suppose you know what happened to a very briefly lived series titled Bats, Cats, and Cadillacs by chance? I remember it being oddly funny, but I only ever saw two issues, and they were like a year apart.

Yup, I remember BC&C, and those two issues were all there were. It was a casualty of the Now Comics disaster.

I have a couple of issue of the LAST GENERATION, but never saw the entire series. I know Mike Raabe had wanted to do more of MENAGERIE, but saw the writing on the wall when the sales figures came in, and decided to quit while he was still ahead. Then he went to do a few things for MU, got involved in doing art for MAGIC THE GATHERING, and other pro work.

I've still got the first cover version of MK. :P

The Last Generation lead suddenly in a motorcycle accident. Hence it ending suddenly. I have 3 of the portfolio comics/ art prints stored somewhere.

He died? That's a reason for discontinuing something that I don't think anyone would argue with. However, death never stopped some popular syndicated comic strips from continuing on, and on and on...

the authors' death, or the comics' death?

A lot of the very popular syndicated (newspaper) comics are called 'zombie' strips, because the original artists died years or decades ago, but the syndicate simply hired another artists to take over.

What I think Defenbaugh meant was that one of the creative team for The Last Generation died in a motorcycle accident, so that's why that comic ended unfinished.

ah, got it.

some of those zombie strips are dead by themselves. like Garfield had lost it's appeal somewhen on the way, I think there can even be a point made out, probably when the author syndicated it. I also eventually stopped bothering with Calvin&Hobbes, maybe too many spinoffs?

some zombie series, if one can call that, exist in germany, too. both are originally french, and both were eventually abandoned by their german publisher. one is called "The Last Wolf of Oz", which didn't surviuve the first issue, the other is "Inspector Canardo", where the german publisher has a very funny way of sorting things out. of the so far, 14 issues proposed, only the first 9 were published in order, the others were maybe published, and 12 is still amiss. and 14 reads like they omitted a page or two... that was almost ten years ago.

at least Valerian&Laureline and Chronicles of the Black Moon were finished. would have been a shame to abandon those two classics.