Prog 1184 15/03/00
It’s another journey across The Cursed Earth adventure, and the convoy encounter all sorts of weird and scary things on their route as you would expect. Writer Gordon Rennie provides us with some real Judge Dredd like set pieces, such as the town Americaville, that cherry picks from the American constitution for its own bigoted convenience, and the genuinely unnerving Gila Bruja tribe.
The Promised Land tributes the very original Cursed Earth story by using a strong team of rotating artists such as Alex Ronald, Trevor Hairshine and Colin MacNeil. However, it reminds me more of a poorer HellTrekkers. In HellTrekkers, John Wagner and Alan Grant created a wide cast that the readers couldn’t help but invest in. In The Promised Land, Rennie hasn’t done this, so when we learn that another five travellers have died, my instinct is to shrug my shoulders and think, ‘well, as long as Cain is all right’. It’s a shame, because in every other sense the story works.