My local shop has been clearancing a bunch of stuff they don't want to move again...insuring that I'll be the one that has to move it. Hmm. From 2005,
Robo-Hunter: Day of the Droids, reprinting from 1980's
2000 AD and Tornado #152-
#174 and
2000 AD #259-
#265, written by John Wagner (as T.B. Grover) and Alan Grant, art by Ian Gibson.
I've read most of this before, but it's nice to have in one place. It's a longer serial than I'd remembered, 23 progs! (We saw a piece of one,
some time back!) This collection also features "The Beast of Blackheart Manor" in which Sam Slade moves to Brit-Cit, followed by his self-appointed "assistant" Hoagy; and solves a murder mystery that I'm positive includes cannibalism that gets glossed over in the end. I've never been one for meat "pies" but that'll put you right off them...
For good measure, we've got a Quality reprint: from 1987,
Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter #4, "The Filby Case, parts 4-7" From
2000 AD #269-
#272, written by Alan Grant, art by Ian Gibson and Dominic Regan. Despite a broken ankle, Slade's still on the case to find Ronald the Random Robot, who appears to have randomly developed psychic powers that everyone wants, but he's joined the Robo Goonie cult. As has the undercover Hoagy, who is too dumb to remember he did that because he was undercover.
Also this issue: an early
Ro-Busters tale from
2000 AD and Starlord #100, "To the Death!" Written by Pat Mills, art by Dave Gibbons. Gentle giant Charlie savagely defends his city against the demolition robots the Terra-Meks. In a scene like a really dark
Bob the Builder, the damaged Tyranno-Mek helps destroy himself as to not hold up his teammates Roadroller and Excavator from their work schedule. Since these robots dwarfed the bulldozer Mek-Quake, he wisely/cravenly ducks out, while the money-men plot to pin the blame for all this on Charlie...I seem to recall this one ends happier than most Ro-Busters stories, though.
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These actually sound pretty good overall. I'm betting your store REALLY relies on you to help "move" inventory when they can't get anyone else to buy em, lol.
Ok, looks like my post didn't go through, so let's try this again ...
They are pretty good stories, though I think the best stories come when they get to Brit-Cit. And yeah, those first couple Robo-Hunter stories were pretty long.
Robo-Hunter's fortunately had some good reprints over the years. There was about two years there where DC had the American reprint license for 2000 AD, and they put out a ton of stuff. Some pretty good extras too. There just wasn't enough of a market though, so most of it ended up in used books stores.
The reprint comic's pretty good too. Good back-ups usually, and they started with the Brit-Cit era. The Ro-Busters story sort of has a happier end, but the aftermath of that ending results in the next story being the last for the series. Considering I'm a big Ro-Busters fan, mixed feelings about that.
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