Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2025

Monday Madness RADIO BOY by Chuck Dixon & Jim Engel

In the 1980s, manga finally gained a foothold in the US...
...and American creators began doing their own manga-style material.
Some, like this never-reprinted one-shot title from Eclipse Comics (the first major American company to publish translated manga), were parodies.
This particular spoof was loosely-based on Osamo Tesuka's Astro Boy, which had achieved success in as a translated anime in the early 1960s and opened the door for a flood of Japanese cartoons on American TV that continues to this day.
Note: Though Astro Boy is best-known in the US as a tv cartoon series, it began as a wildly-successful manga in 1954.
The premise of Radio Boy is that the creator himself did the translations for this edition, resulting in a mish-mash of syntax and tenses as well as some literal translations of Japanese phrases.
As a collector of foreign videos (including Japanese and Chinese DVDs and BluRays), I can attest that the English subtitles on them often do read like the captions and copy in this spoof.
BTW, if you don't have a multi-region DVD/BluRay player, get one.
Much of the Asian material released by Dimension (especially their Jackie Chan catalog), Buena Vista, and other mass-market companies is butchered beyond belief, and seeing the originals (even with bad sub-titling) is eye-opening!
I suspect writers Chuck Dixon (yes, that Chuck Dixon) and Jim Engel had also seen some mis-translated films/videos, and wanted to re-create the experience on the printed page.
You'll have the chance to judge for yourself...HERE and HERE!
Next Week
Yep!
They're Back!

Monday, July 7, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness MEGAS XLR "LowBrow" (Pilot) & "Test Drive" (Premiere Episode)

Unseen on Free TV for over TWO Decades!
If you haven't seen it, just watch it.
You'll thank me later.
If you have seen it, you might as well watch it again here, since it's not rerunning on cable and isn't available on DVD/BluRay.
It is on AppleTV+...for $1.99 per half-hour episode!
First up, the 7-minute pilot (an intro, not the origin)
Then, the first 23-minute episode of the ongoing series, "Test Drive", which IS an origin episode!
Bonus: the complete theme song...
We will be re-presenting the comics adaptation in the future, but this was so cool I couldn't resist!
Enjoy!

Monday, June 30, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Warriors Three!" Conclusion

We're About to See Our Titanic Trio Hurtle into Action...

...so let's get the pilots aboard their mecha...and let them cut loose!







Well, three-on-one was a tad unfair!
To Be Continued Next Month!
But, Next Week
Another Mechanical Marvel!
This never-reprinted conclusion to the story from Marvel's Shogun Warriors #2 was written by Doug Moench, penciled by Herb Trimpe, and inked by Dan Green.

Monday, June 23, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Warriors Three!" Part 1

When Last We Left Our Giant Robots...

...normally, I'd explain what's going on, but the characters themselves, a rather chatty bunch, are happy to do so...









You and me both, Richard!
We'll return to the robot controller training session
Next Monday!
But I have a question...are all the robots designed for multiple controllers?
And, if so, why don't we have more potential pilots being trained?
Will Raydeen function as effectively with only one pilot?
Guess we'll find out...

Monday, June 16, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness NEUTRO "Captured by 777"

When Last We Saw Neutro...

Two American scientists had reassembled the parts of a giant automoton left in the Southwest over a century earlier by aliens for reasons unknown...for now!
However, unfriendly governments know of the robot, and seek to possess it!













We'll Never Know What Happens Next!
Written by editor D J Arneson and illustrated by Jack Sparling, Dell's Neutro #1 (1967) was meant to be an ongoing series, but never made it past the first issue.
Whether any work at all was done on a second issue is unknown!

Next Week:
Three Times the Mecha Mayhem as Combatra and Dangard Ace Join Raydeen as We Revisit the Shogun Warriors!

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Monday, June 9, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness NEUTRO "Birth of Neutro"

We Have Already Seen...

...left behind in the Southwest US by aliens over a century ago, a disassembled robot is found in the present day and reassembled by a pair of American scientists who discover it is...incomplete!








To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Written by editor D J Arneson and illustrated by Jack Sparling, Dell's Neutro #1 (1967) was meant to be an ongoing series, but never made it past the first issue.
Whether any work at all was done on a second issue is unknown!

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness NEUTRO "Mysterious Flying Saucers"

Yeah, This Isn't Starting Out as a Typical Mecha Tale...

...but, trust us!
It's worth the wait!









So What Happens If Neutro is Used for Evil Instead of Good?
Find Out Next Monday!!!

Written by editor D J Arneson and illustrated by Jack Sparling, Dell's Neutro #1 (1967) was meant to be an ongoing series, but never made it past the first issue.
Whether any work at all was done on a second issue is unknown!

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