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It’s been too long since we opened up a toy and read the comic it came with. I mean, what do we need toys for when there’s a comic to read?
I thought the next installment would be a return to Etheria for the Princess Of Power minicomics, but I looked on the list. Apparently somewhere along the line I learned that ManTech had a minicomic that came with it’s six figures. What’s ManTech?
Being only slightly less terrible in this gimmick than LEGO’s Galidor a few years later (not that the show it was based on was any better, mind you), ManTech attempted to be the Centurions to the punch of a franchise with part-swapping as a feature. Considering The Centurions is best known for the show and not the action figures based on the show tells you how well that went. Only The Centurions, while not a toyline I was interested in despite liking the parent show, was actually a decent looking toy. ManTech really wasn’t. Outside of six cyborgs, the good humans and evil aliens, who could exchange limbs and weapons I really didn’t know anything about it. Apparently a cartoon was planned but given how quickly Remco’s toyline phased out of existence it never got the chance.
Apparently it did have a short-lived comic from Archie and tonight’s mini-comic, so join me in visiting I remember as “that thing that existed”.
Apparently this is the layout we’re going with. Better than the Spider-Man Peter Pan lid-shaped ones I guess.
ManTech
Remco (1984)
“Siege Of The Robots”
WRITER: Rich Margopolis
PENCILER: Dick Ayers
INKER: Jon D’Agostino
COLORIST: B. Grossman
LETTERER: R. Ollerenshaw
EDITOR: Vic Gorelick
I’m guessing these were too long a name to fit into the credits box. It’s why my pen name is just “Troy A.” in my comic work
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“Does this get all the local channels?”
Sonic’s Friendly Nemesis Knuckles #1
Archie Comics Publications (July, 1996)
“Rites Of Passage!”
WRITERS: Ken Penders & Mike Kanterovich
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Harvo
COLORIST: Kyle Hunter
LETTERER: Mindy Eisman
EDITOR: Freddy Mendez-Gabrie
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The price of getting a comic made and distributed is something I’m interested in given I want to make and sell comics. July had his own money from other projects that he could tap for this project. Not having that option I won’t be able to go the route he has and I’m coming up with different options (so far using Burning Star Comics‘ system seems to be the only I chance I have to make money on this in the hopes of someday making this a career so I can focus on making comics and other media-related projects) but seeing his success and others through self-publishing does give one hope.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
We’re down to the last ten chapters of this book. That means if Jake’s going to find the Kittridges he better do it fast. Last time secured an alternate route to his contact, so we’ll see how that works out, possibly in this chapter.
I try to pad these things out for people going through the homepage and to put some decent length into the article but as we get closer to the end I run out of things to say, which I’m doing now. So let’s just get to reading.
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“Oh sure, when the Punisher does it nobody cares, but let the android try and people start yelling about Skynet.”
The Avengers #96
Marvel Comics (February, 1972)
“The Andromeda Swarm!”
WRITER: Roy Thomas
ARTIST: Neal Adams
INKERS: Neal Adams, Tom Palmer, and Alan Weiss
LETTERER: Sam Rosen
EDITOR: Stan Lee
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I didn’t make that connection either.
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