Richard Branson, Space Adventurer

[shakalooloo]

So, tomorrow Richard Branson plans to head into SPACE! Five and a half years ago, an expy of his did the same thing:



From 2000ad's 2015 Xmas special. Art by Greg Staples.

But let us honour the real man himself, who did meet some giant robots back in the eighties:



From Transformers (UK) #160. Art by Lee Sullivan.

Comments

[tinygaylaura]

And you all thought the time the Transformers met Spider-Man was the oddest crossover the Marvel comic ever did

[tripodeca113]

"DICK BRANSON is a dead groovy guy. All ready famous as a pickle mogul, a music baron and a record breaker, the world's richest bearded git now moves into the world of Giant Robot Destroying!
Yes, those wicked shape-changing Decepticon robots really meet their match when they cross dicks with Dick in issue 160 of the crap comic Transformers. Basically this giant robot shark is well pissed off with Dick and tries to do him but Dick's too hard.
Does this mark a new era of Dick style superheroes? Superdick? The Incredible Hippy? Spider Branson? Captain Capitalist? Thrills hopes not."

A loving magazine article from 1988.


Many years later, due to copyright fears, reprints edited Branson into the horrifying being Mister Jonson, who should not be.

[tinygaylaura]

An evil being

[icon_uk]

Between these and "Scott Wallace", the not terribly subtle Branson expy in Grant Morrison's "Zenith", anyone would think that there was a growng populat perception than a dubious businessman, with an ego that has it's own gravitational pull, was perhaps not entirely on the up-and-up.

[tinygaylaura]

The Trainbots should have stopped his crimes

[icon_uk]

That's privatisation for you.. Realworld version ended up owning a chunk of the UK's trainbots :(

[tinygaylaura]

:(

Freedom is the right of all sentient trains

[scorntx]

Mere mortal ink and paper cannot capture the sheer horror of its subject.

But it's definitely giving it a good try.