Squalor

Squalor

"Squalor" is a 4 issues comic-book limited series created by Stefan Petrucha (writer), Tom Sutton (penciller and Art), Paul Mounts (Inker), Jim Massara (Lettering), Alex Wald (art director), Rick Obadia (publisher), Bob Garcia (senior editor), and Larry Doyle (editor)

Squalor was Stefan Petrucha's Comic Debut. Though he had already published novels, short stories, and plays. He was working as a Technical Writer at the time Squalor was produced.

Squalor Number 1 was published in December of 1989 and the 4 part series was released monthly until March of 1990 by the publishing company First Comics.

Covers are paintings by Jeffrey K. Potter, who also created covers for magazines including Analog, Twighlight Zone, and Asimov's.

Plot Summary

The main character named Squalor is a former theoretical physicist who specialized in non-linear time. He came up with a theory that there was a single state outside of time where cause and effect rules do not apply, he called this A-time, and was soon enough carted away to the mental institution. By the time we meet him he has been released from the institution, is now able to visit A-time, and uncovers a plot by other beings outside of space and time - which sounds like more insanity to the people he knows in regular time until they realize that he knows things he should not know

that waitress is about to spill ketchup on herself, she'll think it looks like a butterfly - Squalor

He also figures out how to bring other people into A-time with him, among other powers he gains from being able to look into other people's past and futures from outside of time.


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  • Squalor — Squa lor (skw[=a] l[^o]r), n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.] Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity. [1913 Webster] The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. I. Taylor. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • squalor — 1620s, state or condition of being miserable and dirty, from L. squalor, related to squalere be filthy (see SQUALID (Cf. squalid)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • squalor — is spelt or in both BrE and AmE …   Modern English usage

  • squalor — [n] filth, poverty decay, destitution, dirtiness, foulness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, starvation, wretchedness; concepts 335,709 …   New thesaurus

  • squalor — ► NOUN ▪ the state of being squalid …   English terms dictionary

  • squalor — [skwäl′ər, skwôl′ər] n. [L, foulness, akin to squalere, to be filthy] the quality or condition of being squalid; filth and wretchedness …   English World dictionary

  • squalor — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ public, urban VERB + SQUALOR ▪ live in PREPOSITION ▪ amid the squalor of …   Collocations dictionary

  • squalor — n. in squalor (to live in squalor) * * * [ skwɒlə] in squalor (to live in squalor) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • squalor — [[t]skwɒ̱lə(r)[/t]] N UNCOUNT You can refer to very dirty, unpleasant conditions as squalor. He was out of work and living in squalor …   English dictionary

  • squalor — /skwol euhr, skwaw leuhr/, n. the condition of being squalid; filth and misery. [1615 25; < L squalor dirtiness, equiv. to squal(ere) to be dirty, encrusted + or OR1] Syn. wretchedness. Ant. splendor. * * * …   Universalium

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