I know a lot of times around here, when I blog some random comic, it's part 9 of 47, and you're going to have to either catch up on the fly or figure it out from context. And that's how I came to this particular issue, almost 39 years ago! From 1986,
Robotech: the Macross Saga #11, "First Contact" Written by Jack Herman, pencils by Mike Leeke, inks by Chris Kalnick.
Without getting deep into Macross/Robotech (or the plot this issue, since we don't have all day!) this was one of the first anime shows to break big in America; and it wasn't aired within 80 miles of me! I think it and
Star Blazers were maybe sometimes on
WGN from Chicago or something, at like four in the morning in some (relatively) nearby towns, but nowhere I could watch it. (See also:
Spectreman, which was on TBS in 1978 every day while I was languishing in school! Goddamn Mountain Time...) Nor do I recall usually seeing
Comico books on the spinner racks near me: for some reason, I only ever saw them in Canada, where I occasionally visited my grandparents. I bought this issue, but I'm pretty sure it was the only issue of the series I ever saw!
Two or three years later, I'd read the guidebook for
Robotech: the Roleplaying Game, and then much later read the
Jack McKinney novels. I recall different covers, though: I didn't read them as single novels, but rather omnibuses or collected up a bit. I don't think I
watched Robotech until the late 90's! Enh, it's okay: I have an abiding love for
Macross II, though. (Shiro Sagisu music! He'd go on to
Neon Genesis Evangelion.) I don't know if I have a point to this, except that if something maybe interests you, maybe if you're patient you'll eventually find it. Especially now with that new-fangled internet: I hadda do some legwork!
5 comments:
Ooof! That artwork looks pretty bad honestly. It looks like amateur fanart rather than a professional piece.
That being said, I was a HUGE Robotech fan back in the day. I watched it religiously whenever it aired back in the 80’s & again in early 00’s on Cartoon Network, when they decided to air the entire series from the beginning. I still haven’t watched Macross 2 or the later sequels with different characters because I maintained an interest in the original cast of characters & just didn’t feel a connection to the next generation.
Hell, I still have the original Macross on vhs after all these years.
And I hear you; Rick should’ve stayed with Minmei. I’ll never understand why he was paired up with Misa/Lisa other than it was supposed to show Rick being more mature being in a mature relationship with a slightly older woman. It’s whatever, despite them staying together in the end.
RIP Roy Fokker & Ben.
The only Macross stuff that I can remember watching was Macross Plus, which my college roomie had on DVD. I must have had some familiarity with it though, because I definitely had a Macross toy as a kid, even if I could only occasionally get it all the way shifted into jet form (mode? shape?)
Kind of a bummer to see a commanding officer abusing their authority to make a subordinate kiss them. Where's the court-martial board? Oh wait, it's probably the giant voyeur isn't it? Swell. . .
I've had the Macross Plus soundtrack discs for years--well over 20, I suppose. Love 'em.
As you should, as you should.
Hopefully it’s covered under the old “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy 🤞🏻
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