Imagine gimp masks, gas masks, barbwire, leather, chains, assless chaps, chestless braziers, and bizarre sex that exceeds Amsterdam’s wildest sex shows.
Hell, the first chapter of the story is titled: “Stars and Strippers.” I don’t know if “Underground Bondage Comics” is a genre, but if it was, this book would fall into that category (among others). I read this comic at the tender age of thirteen, and in the first issue there were bare breasts, strong sexual innuendo, rape, and gratuitous violence. The satire in Marshal Law is brilliant, and the comedy is as black as coal. If Watchmen was a dark look at current heroes of the time, then Marshal Law was a more drastic look at those already twisted heroes. Inspiration is where the similarities end. People were looking at the superhero stuff differently.” At that time there was a restless mood in comics – Alan Moore was doing Marvelman and Watchmen was just about coming out as was Frank Miller’s Dark Knight. “What’s interesting is that when we pitched Marshal Law to Marvel Epic in the Eighties it was much more of a Road Warrior, Mad Max type of thing but we were kept waiting for a contract for so long – about a year – that we had a chance to talk it over. Co-creator Keven O’ Neil even acknowledged these influences in an interview with the UK newspaper, The Times: The character was obviously inspired by titles such as Marvelman, Watchmen, and the Dark Knight Returns. Marshal Law was one of the harbingers of the anti-hero zeitgeist of the mid-nineties.
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