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A little over an hour after entering the arena, a red lamp lit up in the dim waiting room. – Five minutes before the match starts — I slipped into the khaki pressure suit that was lying on the floor. I didn’t really think about it, but I was quick...

After Armored Trooper Votoms wrapped up its original TV broadcast in March 1984, fans of the show continued worldbuilding in the pages of Takara’s Dual Magazine. This became the platform for the first Votoms side story, Blue Knight Berserga. Dual ceased publication before the story could reach its conclusion, but...

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45 TV productions including Xabungle, Baxinger, Macross, Space Cobra, and Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX. 23 feature films including Gundam III, Queen Millennia, My Youth in Arcadia, and an Ideon double feature January Animec No. 21 Animage Vol. 44 The Anime Vol. 27 Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of...

45 TV productions including Urashiman, Dunbine, Votoms, Orguss, Govarian, Cat’s Eye, Mospeada, and Vifam 19 feature films including Urusei Yatsura Only You, Crusher Joe, Harmagedon, and Final Yamato This was the year OVAs made their debut with Dallos as the first original production on the new format. January Animec No....

BELOW: this was a color proof of my first idea for the issue 3 cover (work in progress), which I drew and colored myself. I thought it would be disturbingly goofy if B-ko’s father was flying overhead with his generous package outlined (hence A-ko’s word balloon). Regrettably, I was the...

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After 12 years of experimentation with logos, formats, and page counts, the editors at Rebellion decided it was time for the Megazine to pick a standard and stick with it. They did away with the “volume” concept, which was always sort of arbitrary anyway, and probably existed only to lure...

With Prog 1700, the cover and logo format essentially locked into place with only minor adjustments between then and this writing (early 2025). The cover price went from £2.25 to £2.35 and the content went from one high point to the next with a well-balanced variety of SF, fantasy, and...

Every publisher of anime magazines branched out into book publishing during these boom years, bringing their own editorial and design style to several of the same subjects. These publishers were creating other books (Akita Shoten in particular invested heavily in film comics) and many other publishers were jumping on the...

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This batch takes us from August 2008 to August 2010, another two years of strong stewardship by Rebellion that further strengthened the quality and variety of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. All the classic characters got their turn with Judge Dredd as the tentpole in every prog. There were no format...

The Megazine had been going for more than a decade by the time we got here, but it was still capable of delivering a surprise or two. This run in particular, the first volume to start under the ownership of Rebellion, was loaded with puzzling choices. First, it changed size...

Above is my first crack at the opening page, which I had to redo when I was reminded that the statue had to face out toward the ocean. The revised version is below. Also, I consistently drew Captain Avatar’s peacoat too short on later pages. I fixed it after these...