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February 8, 2015 7:19 AM   Subscribe

Communi-bear Silo State! United States of Lions! Snow Wizards! This is Earth A-D, the world of Kamandi. (Click for glorious large size version.)

Created by the legendary Jack Kirby, Kamandi is the Last Boy on Earth, just trying to make it in an animal-dominated post-apocalytic world.

More fantastic maps at Comic Book Cartography.
posted by ignignokt (28 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
It's about time that the Canadians put up a radiation barrier.
posted by arcticseal at 7:22 AM on February 8, 2015


Dibs on "Kangarat Murder Society" as a band name.
posted by xedrik at 7:26 AM on February 8, 2015


"Expanding Tiger Empire" makes me think they somehow crossbred with puffer fish, and I can't decide whether puffer-tigers would be super-scary or super-adorable.
posted by Etrigan at 7:27 AM on February 8, 2015


KANGA RAT MURDER SOCIETY 4 LIFE
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 7:34 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


I want to retire to the Orangutan Surfing Civilization.
posted by Iridic at 7:34 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


MAD HOLE.


(Also this looks suspiciously like the land of Oooo.)
posted by The Whelk at 7:35 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


Although Dominion of the Devils (Insect Revolution) initially sounds pretty awful, it's worth remembering that inhabitants of what was Canada still have single-payer healthcare thanks to that giant cricket activist, Tomme Dug-Lash.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:46 AM on February 8, 2015 [5 favorites]


I imagine that MAD-HOLE, Country of the Screamers, is having trouble building their tourism industry.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:48 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


The map of Titan has this interesting fact: "Population: Before Thanos 114, After Thanos, 35630."

I always thought Thanos was a bad guy, but he seems to have really taken on the Titan anti-immigration block with their NIMHOM* attitudes.

*Not In My Hollowed-Out Moon
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:53 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


Japan seems intact and unchanged, notwithstanding the occasional raid by Intelligent Killer Whales.
posted by Iridic at 7:56 AM on February 8, 2015


Compared to Gojira, Mothra, Gamera, et al., intelligent Killer Whales are somewhat of a relief.


And it's not like they're wholly unjustified.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 7:57 AM on February 8, 2015


(Also this looks suspiciously like the land of Oooo.)

All of Adventure Time looks suspiciously like Kamandi.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 8:01 AM on February 8, 2015 [3 favorites]


Dominion of the Devils (Insect Revolution) does sound like a Godspeed You! Black Emperor song.
posted by Flashman at 8:03 AM on February 8, 2015


I like the Atlantic land bridge to Ireland.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:15 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


Kamandi: a single-comic masterclass in everything that's great about comics. If I still had mine, I wouldn't even sell them on Ebay. Probably. Also, EXPANDING TIGER EMPIRE BOO YAH.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:25 AM on February 8, 2015


Also, EXPANDING TIGER EMPIRE BOO YAH.

Don't be so fist-pumpy. Due to a bizarre quick of genetics, many of the Tiger-people in that area have a condition where they slowly fill with gas, eventually floating off to an aerial demise (I think they mostly get eaten by horrible mutated starlings, but I digress). Anyway, the Expanding Tiger Empire sees this as a very serious issue, and wishes that you wouldn't celebrate it. Thank you.
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:30 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


many of the Tiger-people in that area have a condition where they slowly fill with gas, eventually floating off

And you know what THAT means...

AERIAL INVASION BY TIGER-BALLOON PEOPLE

Nobody in that book would bat an eyelash, either. Aerial invasion by tiger-balloon people? Must be Tuesday.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:40 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


Is the "Buried Mystery City" really a mystery if it's on a map?
posted by davros42 at 8:47 AM on February 8, 2015 [4 favorites]


I secretly hope that whatever "expanded film universe" DC is working towards, in imitation of Marvel Studios, includes Kamandi's world. I would watch that instead of dour, overly-serious superheroes wearing muted colors and frowning at their enemies, because about the only way Kamandi can work is by embracing that dour, overly-serious vibe to tamp down the insanity of that world a bit.
posted by AzraelBrown at 9:05 AM on February 8, 2015


So the last white boy on Earth wears a fifties style-combo-pageboy-flip hairdo, I guess they still have electricity for blow-drying , and the memories of Mariel Hemingway, right ON!
posted by Oyéah at 9:08 AM on February 8, 2015


about the only way Kamandi can work is by embracing that dour, overly-serious vibe to tamp down the insanity of that world a bit.

Alternatively, they could just go balls-to-the-wall with the insanity, given that one of the breakout comics-to-film characters of 2014 is a talking raccoon. Get some decently good-looking young guy with halfway-decent comic timing for the lead and fill the rest of the roles with slumming mocapped big-name actors reskinned as furries. Boffo boxoffice!
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:30 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


I remember thinking back in the 70s when I first read the issue of Kamandi that included this map, that Kirby made a mistake in publishing it. The whole point of the series was that Kamandi was exploring a strange world, not knowing what he would encounter next. But by creating a completely-filled-in map, Kirby painted himself into a corner. Considering how he usually liked to work on an epic scale, he'd left himself no room for any more grand reveals.
posted by ogooglebar at 9:40 AM on February 8, 2015


Come on, didn't we have yet another post about the Undersea New York Rat Network just a few days ago?
posted by moonmilk at 9:58 AM on February 8, 2015 [3 favorites]


There's a Wild Human Preserve? I thought the whole point of Kamandi was that he was the only human! (I have not actually read these comics) Are there enough others that they set aside all of Central America for them?
posted by Bill_Roundy at 1:02 PM on February 8, 2015


Huh. I was sure it was going to be this web comic, which now seems oddly similar.
posted by Joe in Australia at 2:21 PM on February 8, 2015


I thought the whole point of Kamandi was that he was the only human!

Well, sorta. Kamandi is basically Kirby's riff on Planet of the Apes, with the concept extended to other sorts of anthropomorphic animals. I took the "wild humans" thing to imply that they were non-sentient.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:33 PM on February 8, 2015


Are there enough others that they set aside all of Central America for them?

You misunderstand, that area is the last place you can get the really wild "human preserves" -- other places are down to the sort of humdrum human jams, jellies, marmalades, and so on that you can get anywhere. Stocks of fresh human ran out a long time ago.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:19 AM on February 9, 2015


Here's a lovely gallery of Kamandi splash pages!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:49 AM on February 9, 2015 [2 favorites]


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