The H. G. Wells movie, Things to Come, is not what one would regard as a comic movie. Filmed in 1936, it shows World War II starting in 1940, lasting for thirty years, and utterly devastating the world with a plague, the Wandering Sickness; in 1970 England has regressed to 19th-century warlordism in one of the earliest depictions of an "after-the-
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