The island in "Lost" may have been a hazardous place for anyone who has washed ashore during the show's six-season run on ABC, but such locales are a part of everyday life in comics.
For every developed county with a system of laws, there are handful of remote islands populated by prehistoric beasts or mad scientists in the comic book world. With "Lost" wrapping up its long run on television this weekend, we decided to comb through our comics for a few locales with fatality rates comparable to (or worse than) any DHARMA-approved land.
KRAKOA: The whole reason Professor X brought Wolverine, Banshee and Storm together as X-Men for the first time was to combat a living island creature that was sucking the life out of his original students. They went looking for a mutant, but the island itself turned out to be more dangerous than anything living on it.
MANHATTAN ISLAND: In the alternate near-future world of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli's "DMZ," Manhattan is a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.S. government and rebellious Americans allied with the forces of the Free States. Instead of thriving metropolis, New York City becomes an evacuated war arena.
OOLONG ISLAND: Back during "52" you didn't have any street cred as a mad scientist if you weren't invited and/or kidnapped to participate in the unholy experiments on Oolong Island. T.O. Morrow, Doctor Sivana and Will Magnus were among those brought to its labs.
TARMAGANT ISLAND: The site off the coast of Scotland where Hellboy was inadvertently summoned turned out to be a playground for all sorts of arcane voodoo you would never want to mess with. Grigori Rasputin and his Nazi collaborators failed to get their hands on the demon they wanted, but we do have them to thank for all the wonderful Hellboy stories that have come since.
GENOSHA: This has to be one of the least desirable countries of all time to live in if you're a resident of the Marvel Universe. Mutants have been enslaved, there was a civil war, Magneto was the head of state, and then there was the time the whole place got nuked by Cassandra Nova's Sentinels.
DINOSAUR ISLAND: One of the weirdest fronts in World War II for the DC Universe was this island in the South Pacific where dinosaurs still roam free. It's not too scary that Batman won't visit on occasion, though, and it's since made appearances in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" and Darwyn Cooke's "DC: The New Frontier."
HYDRA ISLAND: "Lost" and the Marvel Universe share at least one island name in common. The Marvel version is where Baron Strucker set up shop for his elite army of green and yellow villains. And let's be completely honest here, HYDRA makes the DHARMA Initiative look like a nursery school by any comparison.
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