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Thanks, I appreciate it. I have xeroxes of the pencils somewhere. I will try and find them and post a comparison of pre and post inks on some of the more egregious pages. I was pretty disappointed not to get the color series but there was nothing to be done. It was actually a year or so later before Tommy Yune took over the Robotech brand. I was actually slated to work on a second Speed Racer series with him at Wildstorm and he left that project to go to Robotech. I ended up doing a book called RoboDojo instead. I've talked with him a couple times since then. He contacted me about doing the cover art for the first Robotech Playstation game but I was too busy to meet the deadline, so Udon got it. He gets a bad rap sometimes but he's really a nice guy.

That was me. I wrote and penciled these 3 Robotech books for Antarctic. I also penciled the last 4 issues (11-12) of Malcontent Uprisings for Eternity. As to why I used DYRL designs in Covert Ops, well, several reasons. First, they had already used some here and there, and made no objection when I turned in the pre-production art and script. Second, they had already monkeyed with the continuity and there were other people doing side stories that I had no information on, so I just did my own thing and left it to the editor to sort out any continuity they wanted to try to maintain. Finally, I always liked those designs over the series and wanted to use them in the book. I would say consider it an alt-universe story. Now on the 48 page New Gen story Class Reunion, I tried to stay within the bounds of cannon and it is even placed into the series timeline on the last page. That was the last Robotech book AP put out before the license was pulled by HG for their Cartoon Network deal, so it was rush inked by 5 or 6 different people (some inept) in order to meet their legal deadline. As a result a lot of the pages suffered, unfortunately. Also, they were about to hand me control of their main color Robotech series before the license was lost, which tells me that my books must have sold pretty well for them among their various Robotech offerings.

I have the LED bootlegs. They are based off the 1/55 2002 VF-1A head reissue with the swappable canopies. There is an all red version and a white version with a blue back hatch, each blister carded. They come with the gun pod and an alternate light green transparent canopy. I'll try to get some pics up.

I fear that Yamato may be done with the MegaZone license. I was really hoping for a Hargun and a GR-2 green hover Garland. But no news of any upcoming figures in such a long time....

Am I mistaken or in the trailer were they building the Enterprise out in a friggin field somewhere? I would think any vessel of that size and shape would have to be built in orbit due to laws of aerodynamics and gravity and all that crap.

Totally agree with you. I like Brosnan, but not as Bond (nor as a singer, if you've heard the Mama Mia soundtrack). Casino Royale is the first bond film I've watched in years because Daniel Craig actually looks like someone who could, and would, kick the poo out of you. He's a devious, hugely intelligent thug with little conscience - which is exactly what a double-0 should be. Brosnan is great for films like The Thomas Crown Affair remake, which is really a great movie. Regarding gadgets, most of the stuff that used to be fantasy in the old films is today's reality. Technology is so common and embedded in our society today, does he really need a Q?

True, but current Peter uses Hiro's powers quite often and even does so in the very next scene, so he appears to be proficient with them. The only way I could see Claire's shooting him be fatal (at least temporarily) would be if she shot him in the head and left the bullets in the brain. Kind of the same way the splinter in her head kept her dead until it was removed. But it was clear that she had shot him in the chest. And considering she once came back to life while being half dissected on an autopsy table, a chest wound should not keep him down.

Maybe they realized that having the future savior of mankind forced to attend school by a mom who breaks any law to protect him is frigging ridiculous. Especially when that has been the method by which he has been previously tracked down by a terminator. Reminds me of how in anime they will have the robo pilots attending school by day and saving the world in the afternoon (Evangelion, Macross Frontier). Which is also quite insanely stupid.

Ok, how did future Claire kill future Peter by shooting him? Does he not have her healing power also? He should not be able to be killed, like her and Sylar. How would he have a scar for that matter, it should heal. And why is current Peter so lame? During that showdown in Sylar's house all he needed to do was stop time. That would have frozen everyone except the speed chick and even she would only be moving at regular speeds, easy to take out. Of course he would have her speed power as soon as she came near him anyway. Bad writing.

I think these days, Daniel would have brought a gun to school and shot Johnny and his friends on day 2. Roll credits.

If he owns a company and also given who his dad is, I am surprised that he still gets out there and dances around with a vision-limiting helmet on. Think about it, he's a walking liability lawsuit with deep pockets. If you see him, bump into him and fall down, claim severe back injury, and sue for the big $$.

I finished this 1/6 full action Manga version Briareos kitbash custom a while back, before the Hot Toys movie versions came out. I liked the bulkiness that Bri had in the manga vs. the slicker movie look and tried to capture that original design feel.

So I wonder what the price will be from Toynami when they import it here as their Masterpiece? Also, I thought the Scott Bernard head was to be a Toynami exclusive add-in, but there it is in these Japan promo shots.

That VF-1D display model is BROKEN! Look right behind the wing where the inner back assembly is supposed to snap into the top of the back of the leg. The part of the inner back assembly where the locking tab is supposed to be is broken off.

Looks like they didn't try very hard to give Jackman the wolverine hair this go round.

Amazing that the 1/55 toy design has been in constant production, licensed or bootleg, somewhere in the world for 26 years. Usually concurrently by more than one company.

There is a very cool Season 4 Episode of The Batman where Mr.Freeze, who is essentially immortal, gets loose on Gotham 1000 or so years in the future, after Batman is dead and is thought of mostly as a legend. You get to see how Batman planned for that eventuality and also some cool "history flashback" scenes of a middle-aged Batman trying to keep up in a fight against the still-youthful Freeze. That one was very well done, especially if you like those glimpse of the future storylines. I'd recommend renting that disc just for that episode.

Acroray is right, he is definitely thinking of the small Iron Gear toy. I still have one , here he is with his cousin. Mine has a copyright mark on it of 1983 Sunrise Taiwan Enterprise Corp. The Macross is just stamped Japan on the rear of each of his lower legs. I remember I bought them both at the same time on the blue blister cards at Kmart, so they were distributed by the same company.

The Queen Vajra laying eggs and the way she started freaking out when Brera flew in there was a straight rip from Aliens when Ripley invaded the Alien Queen nest.

Maybe the planet actually IS Earth since it looks like Earth, has a moon like earth, and the SDF-1 is there.

The original gundam series was cut into 3 theatrical movies and I think Char's Counter Attack was one as well. There may be others.

I saw a robot band at Chuck-E-Cheese once.

Did they paint him in digitally? Because he's been dead for years.

Agreed, they could run into any number of apocalypse survivors on the Earth including: - Logan5 and Jessica6 - Mad Max - Astronaut Taylor - John Connor the list goes on...

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