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A 1982 ad for 2000AD featuring Judge Dredd prog 260. The first part of the Rogue Trooper Total War poster by Dave Gibbons. Also featuring the comedy classic Robo-Hunter story The Beast of Blackheart Manor (I'd avoid eating the pies). Rebellion.
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indieretronews · 1 year
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iconuk01 · 4 months
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Oh, this is a sad one. Ian Gibson was one of the first artists I learned to spot by pure style in 2000AD and I always looked forward to doing so.
Sam Slade: Robo Hunter ACE Trucking The Ballad of Halo Jones
And his designs were instrumental to the look of ReBoot, laregly via the looks of Hack, Slash, the 1 and 0 Binomes
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quasar1967 · 1 year
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2000 AD #331
27th Aug 1983
Slaine - The Beast in the Broch (part 1) 
Slaine - A Guide to his World (feature)
Rogue Trooper - Eye of the Traitor (part 5) 
Judge Dredd - Requiem for a Heavy-Weight (part 1) 
Tharg's Future Shocks - Buzz Off! 
Sam Slade: Robo-Hunter - Sam Slade's Last Case (part 1) 
2000AD Star Pin-Up - Skizz 
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thisiscomics · 6 years
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This splash page pretty much sums up Robo-Hunter. There’s pretty clear private eye references- Sam Spade, Farewell, My Lovely, the dramatic gun toting pose and a background that perhaps suggests movies- and the humour that undercuts any real seriousness in the plots.
The grinning face of Stogie, the robo-cigar (vaping 30 years early?) and Hoagie’s daft cartoon appearance, suggest that robots may not exactly be hard to hunt. The dramatic tag line promising his first case since his last makes it clear this may not be the serious tale that the dramatic pose implies. Humour definitely dominates the series, and I wonder if that led to its relatively short lifespan- where the satire of Judge Dredd has continued throughout the series, those strips that are more explicitly humorous seem to not last so long in 2000AD. Slade had several long story arcs, so it’s not as though it flopped, thus I imagine that either the humour was less attractive (editorially?) in later years (although the strip did make a return later, with Peter Hogan scripts and Rian Hughes art, with no attempt to dial down the jokes) or Wagner and Grant felt they could only take the gags so far before it felt tired to them. It’s not my favourite collaboration between the two writers, but one I would gladly revisit time and again for the excellent art by Ian Gibson throughout the series.
From “Sam C Slade: Robo-Hunter: Farewell My Billions” by Alan Grant, John Wagner & Ian Gibson, in 2000AD Prog 435, reprinted in Robo-Hunter: The Droid Files Volume 02
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dafttom · 7 years
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Best of 2000 AD: Robo-Hunter - Stogie… #2000AD #RoboHunter #Stogie
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diddlydumpodcast · 4 years
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"Robohunter: Verdus". Robo-Hunter is a recurring strip in the British Comic 2000 AD, initially written by John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson. The series starred Sam Slade, a laconic, ageing, cigar-smoking bounty hunter of robots that have gone renegade. 
(As ever, the Diddly Dum Podcast acknowledges the copyright of anyone we’ve pinched anything from and would offer in defence only that we don’t make a penny out of the act which is simpy one of abject worship)
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fovcomicfigure · 4 years
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^+^ 2000AD ThreeA Robo-Hunter Sam Slade 1:12 Scale Action Figure https://ift.tt/2UFWWvq
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wildewood · 5 years
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2000AD and Starlord Prog 102: What's the big idea, creep? Your players are cheating! Play Robopoly with Robo-Hunter!
2000AD and Starlord Prog 102: What’s the big idea, creep? Your players are cheating! Play Robopoly with Robo-Hunter!
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Two series went on hold for the 2000AD and Starlord merger – Dan Dare and Robo-Hunter. Dan Dare got a Dave Gibbons cover last prog, this week it’s the turn of Sam Slade, Kidd and B.O. ably brought to the cover by Ian Gibson.
The Nerve Centre is given over to overseas readers, from far-flung places like… the Channel Islands. (Also South Africa, New Zealand, Ghana, Germany, Dar Es Salaam and…
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2000adonline · 7 years
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The 2000 AD ABC #74: Robo-Hunter 
Sam Slade spends his days hunting AWOL androids and malfunctioning mechas - but when he's hired to discover the fate of some missing colonists on the planet Verdus, he has no idea what's in store.
Robo-Hunter is one of the all-time classics of 2000 AD - irreverent, silly, and instantly popular!
Read the collected Robo-Hunter now >>
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A 1986 ad for Sam Slade Robo Hunter No. 2 from Quality Comics. The main cover image was by Ian Gibson and, as far as I know, had not appeared anywhere before.
Eagle Comics was well known for its new covers, most of which were produced by the original strip artists. When Quality Comics took over this practice soon stopped. The covers were either taken from the source material or new covers were commissioned from artists that weren't always best suited for the strips. Robo Hunter was an exception though as I think there were at least two Ian Gibson covers on the early issues that I'd never seen before.
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cultfaction · 5 years
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Mega City Book Club Ep 95: Robo-Hunter
Mega City Book Club Ep 95: Robo-Hunter
In Mega City Book Club Ep 95: Robo-Hunter, they meet up with artist Damian Edwardson at the Lawless convention to talk about the funniest robot saga of all time by John Wagner and Ian Gibson.
Do check out Damian and Helena’s work at artninetwo.com and on their Facebook group.
And get your copy of the first volume of Sam Slade’s adventures from Hachette or digitally from the 2000AD store.
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quasar1967 · 1 year
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2000 AD #272
10th July 1982
Cover:  (Rogue Trooper)
Sam Slade: Robo-Hunter - The Filby Case (part 7 - final part) 
Rogue Trooper - All Hell on the Dix-I Front (part 7) 
The Mean Arena - Mother Vlad's Vampires (part 5) 
Tharg's Future Shocks - No Picnic! 
Judge Dredd - Meka-City (part 2 - final part) 
Ace Trucking Co. - Joobaloo! (part 5 - final part) 
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Ads for the January 1987 cover dated Quality Comics titles reprinting strips that originally appeared in IPC titles (mainly 1980's 2000AD but The Steel Claw had debuted in Valiant in 1962).
Rebellion.
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2000AD featuring Judge Dredd prog 266, dated 29 May 1982. Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter cover by Ian Gibson. Rebellion.
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Robo-Hunter Book One from Titan Books (1982), reprinting the first part of the Verdus (or Planet of the Robots) story from 2000AD.
Cover by Ian Gibson (1946-2023).
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