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Most academies have long histories and traditions. Ours is less than three years old. Most schools are built around famous historical sites and landmarks. Ours is built around something that dropped out of the sky. But the most important, most meaningful difference is that wheras most other military academies were formed between boundaries, ours was formed beyond boundaries. There are no countries here, no nationalities ... no borders. Just people.
Regular series / May 1995 - February 1996, December 1996 / Story by Robert W. Gibson
THE LOWDOWN
Set during the same time period as Return to Macross, Academy Blues follows the adventures of Lisa Hayes, Kim Young, Vanessa Leeds, Rolf Emerson, and other future war heroes in their days as cadets in the Robotech Academy, dealing with both experimental futuristic machinery and down-to-earth everyday problems.
Not that any problem is an everyday problem on Macross Island ...
BACKGROUND INFO
Much like Warriors before it, Academy Blues was a logical extension of the idea behind Return to Macross--the tales of our band of Macross Saga heroes before they were heroes. Only in this case, the stories directly dealt with Lisa Hayes and the "bridge bunnies", along with future Army of the Southern Cross chief of staff Rolf Emerson in their academy days, and thus held little room for high adventure, focusing more on the characters and their relationships.
While the six-issue series, written by former Eternity Comics Captain Harlock scribe Robert W. Gibson, got a few minor facts wrong, it did for the most part maintain the feel of the good old Macross days, even more so than the series it was spun off from. This probably has more to do with the characters involved and artist Sean Bishop's early involvement in the series--of any Robotech comic artist, Bishop's art most resembled the style of the original animation. However, as the issues slogged on, the stories grew less and less about Lisa and company and more about meaningless side issues tying into Return to Macross. This is probably why the series ended at issue five and the characters were ultimately folded into the parent title.
In the last month of Academy's Robotech titles, a one-shot called Breaking Point finally tied up the loose ends of Academy Blues and the Robotech Academy subplots in Return to Macross, although it did this rather vaguely due to poor production values and mediocre art by the amazingly and supremely mediocre Dusty Griffin.
ACADEMY BLUES
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