Got a nit for Destroyer Duck #1. First of all, I must say I didn't really read this issue too closely, so there are probably more nits in it. Maybe I'll catch them later if and when I re-read it. But this one stuck out like a sore thumb, so I'm posting it. But first, some background info on this issue and series: At the time, Steve Gerber, the title's author and creator, was involved in a lawsuit with Marvel Comics over the Howard the Duck character. This issue, #1, was published as part of a lawsuit benefit (along with a F.O.O.G. [Friends of Ol' Gerber] portfolio). The plot involves one Duke "Destroyer" Duck, who lives in a world of talking animals. His best friend is a duck called "the Little Guy" (he bears a passing resemblence to Howard). Somehow or another the Little Guy is zapped into another dimension. When he returns, he tells Duke about how he was mercilessly exploited by Godcorp (the Marvel Comics stand-in). The final part of the exploitations included medical "experiments" that results in the Little Guy's death. This prompts Duke to avenge his friend's death. Duke hops into a vehicle that takes him to the Godcorp dimension. Therein lies the nit. Well, nits actually. Duke's world doesn't seem that much more technonlogically advanced than our own in 1982. So how is it that there just happens to be a multi-dimensional travel car available?

And how does Duke know where the Godcorp dimension is? When the Little Guy vanished, no one had any idea where he went. Certainly no one suggested he went to another dimension. So now all of a sudden Duke not only can travel to another dimension, but he knows the exact one he needs to go to. Yeah, right.

There's one more thing I need to mention. The artist. Jack. The King. Kirby. This story is one of the few times Mike Royer didn't ink one of Jack's post-70s work. Alfredo Alacala is the inker. And it looks damned good - vintage Kirby. Makes you wonder just how detrimental Royer was to Kirby's work and how much better Jack could have been with a better inker.

Excelsior!

Zot! is Zachary T. Paleozogt who is a hero on a utopian-style sci-fi Earth. Jenny Weaver & her brother Butch come from our Earth.

All stories reprinted in Zot! 1987-1991: The Complete Black And White Collection

The Season Of Dreams. Pt. 3 Zot! #15
Zybox, a super-robot, has conquered our Earth by putting everyone under some kind of hypnotic spell. He plans to test if there is or isn't a soul. If the soul is a small amount of energy then it should be detectable when 5 billion people simultaneously commit suicide.
Problem is Zybox is not supposed to be able to hurt anyone & somehow he is able to claim that he won't be hurting anyone by somehow arranging for 5 billion people to kill themselves at the same time. Now since he gets stopped because he can't kill anyone how the heck did he justify arranging for 5 billion people to kill themselves without running smack dab into the don't hurt anyone clause?

Ghost In The Machine Part One Zot! #23
Maybe this was explained in 9-Jack-9's previous appearance (the collection does not include the color issues 1-10), but when Jenny sees 9-Jack-9 in the microwave (he can travel through electrical devices) she tells Butch to shut off all power in the house. However she is still wearing her lightning bolt necklace which transmits a signal across dimensions. If she was so worried about 9-Jack-9 getting her, why didn't she take it off?

Ring In The New Part One Zot! #26
Being that he was planning to move the series from Zot's Earth to Jenny's Earth, McCloud felt the need to bring back a bunch of Zot's enemies in kind of a fond farewell. Although I think two of them were a mistake.
When we last saw Dekko in issue 18 it seemed like a good bit of closure to the character where he, metaphorically, erased himself. True, he wasn't dead, but showing him out of his catatonic, coma-like state seemed like a step backwards for the character.
When we last saw Zybox in 15 he had, apparently, been destroyed & his parts had been disassembled. The revelation here that a part of him had survived seemed anti-climatic knowing that he wouldn't be seen again for the rest of the series.

Ring In The New Part Two Zot! #27
The Federation in Zot's universe is worried about the inter-dimensional travel to Jenny's Earth, so they want to put a halt to it, for the time being, & Zot gets trapped on Jenny's Earth & since Zot has the only known copy of the coordinates of Jenny's Earth, they think it'll be a while before the gate can be opened.
Besides Uncle Max's system there were gates on Sirius & Antares & even though it was mentioned that the coordinates were removed from their computer systems, it would seem that the coordinates shouldn't be that hard to find. Heck 9-Jack-9 found a way to Jenny's Earth & while everyone believes Zybox destroyed he probably learned the coordinates when he went there. (Bellows also went to Jenny's Earth but it's unknown if he learned of the coordinates when he forced Uncle Max to open a gate.) Also Jenny's lightning bolt necklace sends a signal through dimensions, so why couldn't Uncle Max detect that signal?

The Great Escape Zot! #36
In issue 26 they were going to examine some of the quirks about Zot's Earth of 1965 (yes, the year is always 1965) & how they can have movies & songs about World War II & the Vietnam War when Zot's world hasn't had a war since the War To End All Wars, but here in the last issue that angle is not discussed at all.
Now admittedly, McCloud had planned to get back to doing more Zot! so maybe that might have been answered eventually, but as it was the impetus for Zot to spend time on Jenny's Earth you'd think it might have been answered once access to Zot's Earth was restored.