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It is now 2027. A second armada sent by the aliens is nearing the planet. They have come to recapture the secrets of their lost technology ... and destroy the Earth!
Mini-series / November 1996
Based on a story by Carl Macek.
THE LOWDOWN
The full-scale invasion of the Robotech Masters is still a few years off, but an advance group has come for the information to be found on the mother computer of the SDF-1, called EVE (Enhanced Video Emulation). Their plan is to clone a high-ranking official in the Earth's military and use this clone to transmit the information to their flagships. Their plan goes off without a hitch. They kidnap a Southern Cross officer by the name of B.D. Andrews and release a simulagent of him, who denies the fact that the Earth is again wrapped up in a war with aliens. However, one of the men under Andrews's command, Todd Harris, secretly meets with a young friend of his named Mark Landry. Todd tells Mark that he saw B.D. get kidnapped by the aliens, that the Earth is being invaded once more, and that he has stolen the only weapon capable of standing against the military conspiracy to cover up this new conflict--a mobile database terminal called the MODAT-5, which resembles a high-tech motorcycle. Todd is killed, but Mark makes off with the MODAT-5. With Andrews transmitting the data from the EVE supercomputer to the Masters, Mark and the MODAT are the Earth's only hope against the Robotech Masters.
BACKGROUND INFO
In the next-to-last month of Academy's ownership of the Robotech comic book license, they farmed this two-part adaptation of the Cannon film Robotech The Movie: The Untold Story out to an up-and-coming comic book studio called Bench Press Studios. The artist for this title, CHI, had previously had some artwork published in the last issue of Marvel Comics's Transformers: Generation 2 comic book; and the writer, Benny R. Powell, had done some issues of Marvel Comics's What If? series, which basically took a set Marvel comic book storyline and changed the outcome, showing what might had happened if things had played out differently.
In truth, this is what happened to the Robotech The Movie adaptation. The first issue was a heavily abridged retelling of most of the movie, while the second issue adapted a few more scenes from the movie's conclusion for six pages before delving off onto a weird tangent. The outcome of the story is pretty much the same--the Earth is saved, the Masters defeated, and the clone of Andrews killed--but the ride to the end is very different, very cliched, and very unsatisfying. Kind of a crying shame, especially when the fans had been begging for an adaptation of the movie for quite some time up to this point.
ROBOTECH: THE MOVIE
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