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  • Writer: RM Rhodes
    RM Rhodes
  • Oct 22, 2015
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jul 24

The Hollow Planet is a really good example of world-building that conveys the details of the world through the story instead of through narrative chunks. This page is a good example: one of the key points of the society is that there are no men. We see in a few places that this has led to what is essentially a lesbian utopia. But they still need to reproduce. So they have a captured, mutated male in a large tank and they have transformed the insemination process into a whole ritual that women are selected to participate in. Which is what we see here – the lead character has climbed out onto the insemination seat so she can take the chance at impregnation. Schuiten is a good enough artist that he included a line of liquid from the containment tank to the end of the perch.

(Heavy Metal issue #120, May 1989 – Page 12 The Hollow Planet by the Schuiten Brothers)

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