You know a comic has become an institution when it clears the path for similar comics to thrive in a space that didn’t previously exist. That’s what 2000AD accomplished when it experimented with a weekly SF/adventure format in 1977 and quickly found its audience. Through steadily growing sales and spinoffs,...

The red, boiling lava called to the wind. The smell of sulfur hit my nose. Fire Cask, the horrific lava death match. After killing two enemies, my Berserga was suddenly hit by heavy machine gun fire. Berserga lost his balance and fellonto his back. However, at that moment, Berserga’s monitor...

Just about every comic book artist on Earth hits the wall at some point; circumstances beyond your control swoop in to throw you off your game and make it impossible to hit your monthly deadline. I don’t know exactly what circumstances struck penciler Cully Hamner on this issue of Firearm,...

The Solution was one of the Ultraverse team books, written by James D. Hudnall and drawn by a variety of pencilers. I was the letterer on the series, and the penciler who impressed me most was John Statema. I hadn’t seen his work before, and I haven’t seen it since,...

Chapter 31 See the original post here “Anyone else have an opinion?” Captain Pasdard looked around at everyone. There were no opinions or objections. “Then, the day after tomorrow, we’ll load up what we need and return to the mother ship.” The flight from the landing site on the Gonneau...

The Blue Knight I ascended the ring to avenge the death of a comrade-in-arms. If I could defeat the enemy in front of me, I could find a clue to the rumored Black A.T. Using my Berserga’s secret weapon, the pipe charger, I stopped him dead in his tracks. As...

Aside from the various specials, annuals, and inserts, 2000AD spinoff merch took a while to show up. But once the floodgates were opened, they never closed. I kept on it for a while, but at some point I lost track. These days, the Rebellion website is the place to go...

Over this stretch of progs, the cover price rose from 45p to 60p (quite a jump from 8p in 1977) and the interior finally made it to full colour [color] as of #723. Supposedly this was motivated by a contemporary color comic title Toxic, created by 2000AD expats. The immediate...

RC Berg through Unknown Makers RC Berg Visit this company’s website here 1/24 Scopedog Type-21C, RC Berg (see more photos here) 1/24 Scopedog 2A DX set, RC Berg (see more photos here) 1/20 Heavy Machine Gun, RC Berg (see more weapon kits here) 1/20 Pentatrooper, RC Berg 1/20 Hand Rocket...

Ocelot through Rampage Ocelot 1/24 Berserga WP (Phantom Arc version), Ocelot 1/20 Straight Tortoise, Ocelot 1/20 Muscle Beetle, Ocelot 1/24 Dangerous Brim, Ocelot 1/24 Erdspinne, Ocelot 1/24 Fighting Box, Ocelot 1/24 Squid, Ocelot 1/24 Debora Special (game AT) modification parts, Ocelot 1/24 Scopedog and gun platform, Ocelot (Wonder Festival 2025,...

Chapter 26 See the original post here For the next few days, the transport cruiser carrying the child silently moved through the Astragius Galaxy’s Trockhov sector. Voyaging through the starry seas tended to be a tedious venture. There were no waves, no wind, and nothing to do but drift through...

The dark history of the Astragius galaxy, in the shadow of an alien being that spans 3,000 years. One man, Chirico Cuvie, was chosen as the successor of this entity, which claims to be a god that controls war. What is the path chosen by Chirico, “The man who killed...

Caveat: this is nowhere NEAR a complete collection of Macross print media. And it’s probably also less than half of everything out there. I never felt the urge to be a completist on this front. But I did find the stuff that appears to occupy the top of the pyramid,...

Music had been a critical component of anime since the very beginning, with theme songs leading the charge into the record industry and soundtrack scores gradually following after. The Space Battleship Yamato series revolutionized anime soundtracks with fully symphonic scores in the 70s, and Macross took it to another level...

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There were no logo or format changes over these 100 progs, though more colour pages were added and the price went from 35p to 45p. But, as always, the real story was in the stories themselves. From its first issue in 1977, the driving force behind 2000AD was REVOLUTION. This...

In my first couple years as a convert to Judge Dredd and 2000AD, the bridge was not yet fully built between comic publishers in the UK and comic dealers in the US. The American-formatted reprint comics from Eagle that grabbed my attention in 1983 were the first plank in that...

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