31 Days of Scans: Favourite Canon Romance - Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes-

[ozaline]

Robotech in both comic and anime form was one of the first series I came across that didn't talk down to kids, and showed lasting consequences of actions. It was also the first time I saw a special issue devoted to the marriage of a character (yeah Spider-man tied the knot two years earlier and Mr. Fantastic a couple decades before that, but I wasn't around for those). I'd place their Japanese counterparts Hikaru, and Misa above Rick, and Lisa, but that'd require posting Japanese scans as the only official English language Macross comics are the Macross II ones done by Viz.

Shown are 7 pages from Robotech the Macross Saga #36, where the Rick-Minmei-Lisa love triangle is finally resolved, and 9 pages from Robotech II The Sentinels Wedding Special #2 (which has 29 pages of story content).















"Now that I have something to live for," blargle.



10 years later (but much earlier in the new official timeline) the SDF-3 is finished and the Wedding of the Century takes place before the pioneer mission launches.

Comments

[q99]

This is good :) There's a reason why Macross hit so much bigger than Gundam had just a few years early- the combination of the action and the relationships, both done well, attracted a very wide audience. And that applies to Robotech too.