If this batch had a theme, it would have to be “transition.” All the most popular characters were still in residence; Judge Dredd dominated every issue, but Robo-Hunter, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, Nemesis, Slaine, and others were in regular rotation and always knocking it out of the park with great...

In the previous round, I gathered up the Judge Dredd series presented in American format by Eagle Comics. At the time, Eagle was an imprint of IPC, the publisher of 2000AD in Britain. This was my entry point, and Eagle quickly lured me farther down the rabbit hole with more...

Chapter 11 See the original post here For a thousand years, the ancient city of Atemdo had been considered the center of Melkia, the main planet of the Gilgamesh side. Its position remained unchanged during the Hundred Years War. All the functions of the many cultures and nations scattered throughout...

Foldout poster by Kunio Okawara               Kunio Okawara Design Room The designs in this issue are all variations of the ones that appeared on TV. This is the direction of both works. For the A.T., I had firm requests from Directors Takahashi and Takizawa,...

1. Story beats For my earliest comic projects, I’d write and draw it one page at a time with only a vague notion of how it would end. As my story ideas gained complexity, I started writing synopses as a guide to stay on course. But when I began scoping...

That’s it! That’s as far as I got before I put this one aside and never went back to it. The general concept was to tell this story in flashback form with Wedge narrating. He and his fellow pilots (later to be known officially as “Rogue Squadron”) did their best...

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You know that feeling you get when your favorite band puts out an album that is somehow, impossibly, even better than the last one? That’s what the early years of 2000AD were like. The fourth set of 100 progs saw the meteoric rise of writer Alan Moore with three classic...

The entry point for me, and probably the bulk of Judge Dredd‘s American following, was this series from Eagle Comics. Named after Eagle (the premiere British comic for boys in the 50s and 60s), it was an imprint of 2000AD‘s publisher IPC. The American format was more vertical than 2000AD,...

Laser Disc box set, Hero Communications See this book from cover to cover here DVD Box set, Columbia American DVD Box set, ADV Films (2003) Blu-ray box set, Universal (2017) | See the booklet from cover to cover here Back to main article

Imai was the first modelmaker to create Mospeada products in 1983/84, and they offered kits in four different scales. See a vintage Imai commercial here 1/12 Ride Armor (Stick & Ray type) Reissue box 1/12 Ride Armor (Yellow type) Reissue box 1/12 Ride Armor (Iron metallic type) 1/15 Ride Armor...

Figure collection set Transformable Ride Armor action figures (Stick & Ray types) Riding Suit action figure set Transformable Ride Armor action figures (Dark Bartley & Dark Mospeada types) Transformable Legioss & Tread action figures Transformable Dark Legioss action figure Transformable Dark Legioss (pilotless type) action figure Back to main article