Showing posts with label Atari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atari. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder STAR RAIDERS "Beginning...the Saga of the Star Raiders!" Part 1

This Month...a never-reprinted Interstellar Adventure...

...that was meant to be a series, but, sadly, didn't work out that way!








To Be Continued...Next Wednesday!
 These opening pages introduce the protagonists, the state of the universe they're in, and the current situation.
Written by Eliiot S! Maggin and beautifully-painted by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, this never-reprinted 1983 graphic novel was apparently-meant as the original follow-up to the previous Atari Force mini-comics which were included with video game cartridges!
None of these characters ever reappeared in the later Atari Force series, though more of the cute aliens created for the Atari Force mini-series, the Hukkas, appear here.
When the Atari Force was revived as an ongoing regular-format comic series with a different storyline more related to the mini-series, Garcia Lopez was brought in as penciler with Ricardo Villigran as story page-inker, though Jose penciled and inked covers for the first three issues.
After that, Garcia Lopez's heavy workload on licensing and other projects kept him from doing more than occasional inking of others' pencils or pencils & inks on a cover!

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Thursday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE "Galaxian" Conclusion

Wednesday was Christmas, so we're posting this a day late.
The Dark Destroyer, has possessed the minds of normally-peaceful aliens and is using them to destroy Scanner One and the crew in interstellar combat.
The Atarians are trying to protect themselves, incapacitate the alien craft,and avoid killing their crews...who have no such compunctions about the humans!
The crew are using a strategy taken directly from the real-world gameplay of the video game this comic was included with...though not without taking heavy damage...
The storyline of the original Atari Force mini-comics concludes with what appears to be a happy ending!
When the sequel series begins publication a year later, 20 years have passed in-universe and a lot of things have happened.
For one thing, The Dark Destroyer survived!
But that's a story for another time...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE "Galaxian" Part 3

Original art for the wraparound cover by Gil Kane and Dick Giordano!
This is a double-page spreaad
Control-Click to enlarge!
...after battling their way through multiple universes too hostile for the population of a devasted Earth to migrate to, the crew seems to have found both an ideal planet to colonize and an ideal, peaceful, interstellar community to bond and work with...
Interesting how the aliens' strategy matches the gameplay of the video game Galaxian?
Note: the Dark Destroyer is not in the video game!
To Be Concluded...Not Next Wednesday, but...
THURSDAY!
(Wednesday is Christmas Day!
We suspect you'll be enjoying the holiday...we know we will!)
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE "Galaxian" Part 2

Sent by the Atari Corporation in 2005 to probe the Multiverse to find a habitable planet for mankind to move to after wars and pollution have rendered Earth's biosphere on the verge of collapse, the tired crew of Scanner One are exhausted after months of fruitless exploration.
This particular mission began with them killing (in self-defense) a large worm-like creature whose much-larger parent almost destroyed the ship!
With the crew both physically and emotionally "burned-out", expedition commander Martin Champion has hard decisions to make...
But will the Atarians have to fight for peace?
 To Be Continued
Next Wednesday!
Trivia:
Writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway took the backstory from the game and overhauled it, as you can see...
What do you think of their "reconcepting"?
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