You might think a weekly comic and a yearly hardcover annual would be enough of a workload for anyone, but “alien editor” Tharg had plenty more to offer. It goes without saying that when you’re publishing a new comic every week, the issue numbers mount up and (to some readers)...

As the cover price drifted upward from 26p to 35p, “The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic” did everything in its power to live up to that slogan. All the favorite characters continued to break new ground. Strontium Dog added the femme fatale Durham Red to its roster, a character who would prove...

KUNIO OKAWARA DESIGN ROOM Takara-style “Recommendation of original model” This corner presents 3D versions of original mecha design drawn by Kunio Okawara, the mecha designer for Votoms and Dougram. Real robot anime is characterized by many variations of a single design. Votoms is basically composed of two types of A.T....

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Chapter 16 See the original post here Four or five days had passed since the roar of the dredge began to echo along the banks of the Le Chaan. According to Lu’s calculations, the harvest would be five times greater for the same amount of labor. Alternately, the labor hours...

Foldout poster by Kunio Okawara           Kunio Okawara Design Room 4 “Basically, the first step is painting, and the second step is remodeling.” This corner presents 3D models of the original Combat Armor and Armored Trooper, based on new drawings by Kunio Okawara, mecha designer of...

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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