If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...

If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...

Dune buggy driver and land access advocate Evelyn Tallman-Duceshi, who helped keep Oceano Dunes near Pismo Beach open to all, and whose knowledge of sand driving was sought out by both neighbors ...

Made of thick fiberglass, with four-spoke mags and racing slicks ... and was then summarily ushered out of – the Volkswagen dune buggy conversion market. Did Bruce Meyers build a kids' bed?

Image is billing the series as a mash-up of East Meets West and Dune, making this one comic that should be on every sci-fi lover's radar. Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive ...