On the heels of my recent post about Mondo 2000 comes yet another fantastic post on omnireboot.com--this one dealing much of Mondo's truth-is-stranger-than-fiction history. Authored by Mondo founder R.U.Sirius (Ken Goffman), much of this fantastic post is, I suspect, pulled from work done for Goffman's much celebrated, but slow-to-complete 'Mondo 2000: an open source history' kickstarter project.
Inspired in part by Alex's epic and successful quest to collect the full run of Alpha Flight comics and also by my participation in a successfully funded but ultimately stalled kickstarter project, I recently decided to collect the entire run of issues for Mondo 2000 magazine. For those of you unfamilar with Mondo it was an intermintently published magazine that ran from 1989 to 1998 and did a spectacular job of tying counterculture together with emerging and fringe technologies. In just 17 issues the mondoids of yore managed to bring together an astounding array of unique individuals including:
