Hercules is the perfect superhero, a demi-god on Earth trapped between his two heritages and generally striving to improve the lot of those regular folks he lives among. Usually he struggles with his own limitations, anger and such, but holds himself to a standard beyond that of mortal men. Such a character is ideal to plunk down not in the usual mythic setting, or even the modern day, but in the future, particularly a future which erupted from the "Great Disaster".
Part of Gerry Conway's "Conway Corner" productions (though the nickname might've been dropped by this time) Hercules Unbound was drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez with Wally Wood inks. Later Walt Simonson stepped in, so this is a consistently good-looking comic. Hercules here comes to future Earth and immediately sets out to help people against an array of threats. He deals with the kinds of things that had much in common with other DC comics like sentient animals and suchlike. The Atomic Knights make a guest-starring appearance, their first in many years. Much of the world Hercules worked in was at first made into a dream and then wiped away all together with the ballyhooed Crisis on Infinite Earths.
But for this fanboy, the "Great Disaster" has always happened, and we'll take a look at yet another part of it tomorrow in a third and final entry.
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