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This is a whole new war.

Wildstorm 2003

Mini-series / December 2002 - May 2003 / Story by Tommy Yune and Jay Faerber

THE LOWDOWN

It is the year 1999. Across the planet Earth, chaos reigns. Armed conflicts are erupting between nations left and right, and amidst this outbreak of war, a rumor erupts within the walls of the Pentagon that Russia is selling off one of her prized Oscar-class nuclear subs to a foreign power. The U.S. sends a carrier group to investigate.

Between the arrival of a mysterious fighter group of unknown origin and a phenominal event that changes the course of human history, only U.S. Navy pilot Roy Fokker and group commander Admiral Hayes survive the encounter.

Six years later, both men find themselves thrust into the spotlight of history when they become involved in the further investigation and development of the technology that fell into the lap of humanity on that fateful day in the South Pacific.

Robotech #2

BACKGROUND INFO

Like Bill Spangler's earlier Return to Macross, WildStorm Productions' first ROBOTECH mini-series is a look back at the dawn of the Earth chapters of the ROBOTECH saga. It is also designed so that someone without a PhD in ROBOTECH history can read it, but not in such a way that long-time fans will be grimacing at the liberties taken--unless, of course, they were weaned on the novels by Jack McKinney and still consider them gospel. A fan with a clear understanding and a certain level of acceptance at the way Harmony Gold is handling ROBOTECH these days should be fine.

Harmony Gold Creative Director Tommy Yune and "Noble Causes" creator Jay Faerber's storyline overwrites the classic and infamous Comico Graphic Novel and Return to Macross with much more realistic-feeling and less cartoonish storylines, hewing as close to the way things were in the real 1999 as possible without compromising the integrity of the ROBOTECH TV series--which, of course, is the only backstory Harmony Gold actually cares about at this point. The inclusion of such elements as the carrier Kenosha and SENTINELS villain T.R. Edwards shows that Harmony Gold isn't throwing the backlog of stories created between '86 and '98 out the window entirely, but is rather refashioning their base elements to try and create something better out of them.

It is important to note that despite a legacy of comics from 1984 to 1998, this new ROBOTECH series was considered part of the '80s nostalgia boom that struck the comics industry beginning in 2001 with Devil's Due's G.I. Joe and continued in 2002 with Dreamwave Productions' Transformers revival. As such, it was treated with great disdain, especially in light of the fact that WildStorm's previous '80s revival book was Thundercats of all things.

ROBOTECH

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