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Because greenmask asked for it! A few pages from Grant Morrison's Zoids run

Morrison wrote quite a number of issues of Spider-Man & Zoids back in 1986 (If you're counting #19, #30-31, #36-37 and #40-49, best known as "The Black Zoid" storyarc. considered to be one of the best)







Zunder and Zaton are great, sort of R2-D2 and C3-P0 meet "Waiting for Godot"....

Now, if you were to HAPPEN to click on this link there's a slight chance that you might be taken to a website which has a complete archive of the UK Zoids comics, including all of Grant Morrison's run. If you choose to click on that link or THIS link then it's entirely up to you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[btravage.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Why are these minuscule sentient beings always "superintelegent". Are there no snowflake organisms, or whatever, of merely average intelligence?

[his_spiffyness.insanejournal.com]

I think it's a relative thing. They are super intelligent compared to the non sentient blobs of microorganisms living in the other drops of water on the hull of the derelict spaceship.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that is so Grant Morrison.. and yet it is also definitely Zoids.

I knew I was right to chain my barge to his fan wharf. The.. seriousness with which he seems to have taken it causes me a glee that cannot easily be measured!

Zoids!

I know they had story and worldbuilding elsewhere, but.. Grant Morrison wrote toy-based 80s franchise comics. Whenever the world seems dark, I shall remember this and smile.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

toy-based 80s franchise comics

Don't knock toy-based 80s franchise comics! ROM was a toy-based 80s franchise comic, and it was AWESOME.

[silverzeo.insanejournal.com]

What about video game-based 90s comics? Like Sonic or Mario (does Captain N count?)?

Speaking of which, I hope whoever posted those Nintendo Power Comics will re do them. The Metroid and Star Fox stories seemed awesome.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not knocking them, Transformers are my home-bots. But the world at large does rather deride them, 'Oh, it is just based on a toy-line. Bah!' which makes it sweeter when 'respected' creators add their own pizzaz.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Indeed it was... see alo Micronauts and (alas briefly) Visionaries

YOU STOLE MY ICON!

[silverzeo.insanejournal.com]

"Me Grimlock and Dinobots better than dumb Zoids and ugly Zoidilla!"

Speaking of transformers, doesn't Zoidzilla look a lot like the final Boss from the Japanese released only Tranformer game for the NES....

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/51566?type=flv

Re: YOU STOLE MY ICON!

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Tripticon. Wouldn't surprise me. Japanese toy design is always kind of incestuous, follow the leader. And that's not figuring in the other toy franchises that were separate lines first, until Takara and Hasbro licensed them as Transformers.

Re: YOU STOLE MY ICON!

[nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

I was gonna say it looked a heck of a lot like Trypticon to me but....apparently that's who you were talking about anyways! Go figure.


The back of the game box at the beginning lists "Rhodius Prime" and Hot Rod underneath as a separate character...uhhhh yeah.

Re: YOU STOLE MY ICON!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Pah, there can never be enough Reboot PID icons! :)

Re: YOU STOLE MY ICON!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Zoidzilla and Trypticon both owe a debt to Mecha-Godzilla, no?

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

I think I prefer the 2 seasons of the Chaotic Century anime to this.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

The Zoids anime (Well, the Zoids at any rate) were mighty purty to look at, but I think I like the notion that the Zoids are the stars rather than the window dressing that this series has.

Hotshot pilots with really eccentric hair and an obsession with the Liger-Zero series Zoids are fine, but actually having the little gold and silver androids from the toys as characters (token audience-identification humans to one side) and also having the Zoids be alive and sentient in their own right makes their alien-ness seem a lot more prominent.