Mark13
April 25th, 2007, 06:39 PM
I've long suspected Mieville got his idea for the vast city of moored ships from a story by Doug Moench and Tom Sutton in the old Planet of the Apes comic. It was about seagoing apes and humans operating in huge city-ships. One of the episodes involves a massive confederation of city-ships moored together, just like Armada.
I finally found the story published on the net, so I can have visible proof.
The story is part of an original Apes series called "Future History Chronicles" Here's a link to the first episode of the story featuring the Armada-like city. Scroll down to pages 4 and 5 to see a panorama of the city.
http://pota.goatley.com/comics/potauk083_part1.pdf
I finally found the story published on the net, so I can have visible proof.
The story is part of an original Apes series called "Future History Chronicles" Here's a link to the first episode of the story featuring the Armada-like city. Scroll down to pages 4 and 5 to see a panorama of the city.
http://pota.goatley.com/comics/potauk083_part1.pdf