Showing posts with label Gil Kane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gil Kane. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Conclusion"

We Have Already Seen...

...an encounter with a huge Cthulhu-like alien propels the Atari Institute's experimental mutiverse-spanning vessel Scanner One into an unknown realm,where they make a forced landing on a planet with a beautiful, deserted futuristic city.
While exploring, alien ships attack them, but a different alien vessel rises up from below the city to defend the moribund metropolis and the Atarians.
Using their advanced technology to interpret data sources found in the city, the Earthmen learn the attacking aliens are "Zylons", and the fighter craft that saved them was designed to destroy the attackers!
In a fit of righteous anger, Commander Champion and Security Officer O'Rourke decide to carry the battle back to the Zylons.
But the crew's medical officer, Dr Orion, perceives his crewmates acting our of character, and searches for the reason why...
Considering DC's Atari Force V1N3 was published in 1982, I don't think it'd be a spoiler to reveal the Dark Destroyer did, in fact, survive...and would become the Atari Force's primary nemesis!
Though the Zylon vessels and the other fighter craft (as shown in the comic) are based on the Colonial Vipers and Cylon Raiders of Battlestar Galactica...

Art by Bob Larkin
...they were, in the video game itself, based on the X-Wings and TIE Fighters of Star Wars!
But that's another story...which we'll tell next month!
Next Week...
A NEW World of Wonder!


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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Chapter Three: Star Raiders"

When Last We Left the Multiverse-Spanning Crew of Scanner One...

...after being thrown into an unknown dimension, the Atari team crash-lands on a planet with a beautiful, though long-abandoned, city!
While exploring it, the team is attacked by alien ships.
The humans' demise seems certain, until another type of ship rises from the uninhabited city and fires on the saucer-like ships...
What could be affecting the crew, increasing their aggressive tendencies?
The Action Concludes...
NEXT WEDNESDAY!
BTW, do those two types of alien ships look just a little...familiar?
Could it be...?
Be here to find out!
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Chapter Two: Planet of the Doomed"

...attacked by a gigantic, multi-tentacled creature, the crew of Atari's experimental multiverse-spanning ship Scanner One hastily-activate the vessel's dimension warp engines..without setting a course!
The Action Continues...
NEXT WEDNESDAY!
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Chapter One: Enter--the Dark Destroyer!"

It's been a while since we looked in on the interdimensional adventures of the Atari Force...

...so let's see what's doing in 2005...
To find out where they go, you'll have to be back...
NEXT WEDNESDAY!
Gil Kane steps in as penciler for this never-reprinted tale from DC's Atari Force V1N3 (1982), but the rest of the ongoing creative team (writer Gerry Conway and inkers Dick Giordano & Mike DeCarlo) are along for this installment, which was included in Atari's Star Raiders videogame packages!
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