#290 Justifiable Homicide? pt 1: NEXUS

Nexus

We begin a two-review series on comics that ask hard questions about whether murder can ever be justified. This week, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus. Beginning in the early ’80s, Baron’s philosophical writing and Rude’s increasingly polished art presented the story of a the far future in which a man kills mass-murderers not out of revenge, but because he feels forced to “in self-defense.” Tim and Paul review.

Steve Rude’s Web site

Baron & Rude interviewed (May 2007)

Nexus no more (June 2009)

Steve Rude recalls making Nexus (video)

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