#lisa hayes

Rick Hunter andLisa Hayes order the Zentraedifleet to bombard and bury the mounds housing the remains of the space battle fortresses SDF-1 andSDF-2 as well as the flagship of the renegade Khyron. This slightly gratuitous end to the “Mars Base One” serial’s framing sequence comes courtesy of Tommy Yune,Simon Yeung, and Omar Dogan, from the pages of Robotech Invasion #5 (DC/Wildstorm, May 2004).

Lisa Hayes flips through a photo album and remembers her last conversation with Admiral Gloval in this opening framing scene from “Mars Base One Part One,” by Tommy Yune,Omar Dogan, and Simon Yeung, published in the back of Robotech Invasion #1 (DC/Wildstorm, January 2004)

After taking a direct hit from the SDF-1′s main gun, Khyron’s cruiser has just enough power to keep on flying. He and Azonia agree to send it on a collision course with Earth’s similarly drained space battle fortress. Sammie reports that only one escape pod is operational. Despite Lisa’s protests, the rest of the bridge crew agrees on who is most deserving to take that spot.

With the destruction of the SDF-1, Robotech: The Macross Saga comes to a close at issue #36 (Comico, February 1989), by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

TheZentraedi renegadeKhyron completes his Christmas Day attack, fleeing as his operative on the streets of New Macross City sets off explosives throughout the twice-reborn metropolis. Rick Hunter andMax &Miriya Sterling cease their pursuit to help out with emergency relief, putting out fires and reuniting families. Some reunions that evening, sadly, are not so warm. We bask in the warm glow of lights aboard Earth’s two battle fortresses in this excerpt from Robotech: The Macross Saga #35 (Comico, January 1989) by Markalan Joplin,Diana Schutz, and Mike Leeke.

While references to the SDF-2 had cropped up in earlier issues, this was the first issue where Mike Leeke drew it into a scene, portraying it back-to-back with the SDF-1 inLake Gloval per descriptions in the Jack McKinney novels and remarks by Robotech TV series producer Carl Macek.

Rick Hunter, still brimming with resentment after Lisa Hayes interrupted his reunion with Lynn Minmei following the operation to rescue her from Khyronand worn down from hours of searching for the escaped renegade Zentraedi, makes a complete ass out of himself. It’s the lousy day that precedes “A Rainy Night,” from early in Robotech: The Macross Saga #33 (Comico, November 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

As members of a joint human-Zentraedi attack on Reno’s Robotech Factory Satellite,Lisa Hayes andRick Hunter come to find out that they’re playing a bit more of a starring role in the operation than they realized when they signed on in this sequence from Robotech: The Macross Saga #30 (Comico, August 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

Minmei’s hopes for everything to settle into a fantasy version of the past are shattered by the sight of Rick&Lisa chatting. When Rick runs after her, he instead stumbles into a brawl between Zentraedi who stand divided on the issue of a life without war. This display of both humans and Zentraedi being unable to move on with their lives appears in Robotech: The Macross Saga #29 (Comico, July 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

And thus ends the First Robotech War.

This depiction of the rescue of Lisa Hayes fromAlaska Base and the destruction of Dolza’s flagship from the pages of Robotech: The Macross Saga #27 (Comico, May 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

AsLisa Hayes travels back to Earth to try and talk to her father about a possible diplomatic end to the Robotech War, a force of Zentraedi Battlepods gets in her way. Rick Hunter is sent out in the brand new Super Veritech to clear a path for Lisa’s plane and its escorts – but a mix-up by Sammie Porter almost derails his mission before its begun! This scene of snappy dialog and sorry Battloids comes to us from Robotech: The Macross Saga #24 (Comico, December 1987) by Markalan Joplin and fill-in artist Howard Bender, whose characters are serviceable but whose mecha are … err … less-so.

ComicBook.com revealed yesterday thatJason & John Waltrip (the twin artists who together drew the entirety of Robotech II: The Sentinels’s 75-issue run at Eternity &Academy Comics from 1988 to 1996, in addition to the six-issue Legend of Zor mini-series and a wide variety of Sentinels-adjacent one-shots) have done a new cover for Titan Comics’s upcoming Robotech comic book series launching in the spring of 2017. This follows a series of four other cover pieces by artists I’m less familiar with that were attached to an article at Comics Alliance published during San Diego Comic-Con this past July, which can be seen here.

Not a great composition, to be honest – it looks like the result of an attempt to fit a certain number of Macross Colorforms into a comic book-sized-and-shaped space – and it’s come to my attention that most of the elements are redressed bits of copied/traced Macross lineart. All the elements have been added to or otherwise altered to some degree (Minmei was in a completely different outfit in the original Macross model sheet, while Rick & Lisa are cribbed from head shots so what you can see of them from their necks down is mostly new art), and it’s not like this is the first time the Waltrips have ever used animation model sheets from the Japanese shows that comprise Robotech as slightly-too-literal reference (for instance, see Breetai on the cover of Sentinels Book IV #2 from January 1996; the Waltrips also tended to copy from model sheets when dealing with mecha that didn’t appear quite often enough to remember throughout the Sentinelsrun), but it still registers a sour note when I wish I could just be happy to see those familiar signatures gracing the cover of a Robotech comic for the first time in over two decades.

(That said, this is probably still the cover I’m going to request when the book is solicited in the spring, assuming this appears on issue #1.)

During a lull in the Zentraedi attack on Macross City, Rick Hunter spiesLynn Kyle kissingLynn Minmei. He vents his frustrations on a nearby squad of enemy Battlepods. Nearby, several micronized Zentraedi disembark from their Battlepods, eager to start new lives among their former foes, but fully aware that their chances of survival would drop to nil if the humans knew who they were. This display of frustrated efforts comes to us from Robotech: The Macross Saga #23 (Comico, November 1987) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

Two additional notes:

In the TV episode, Lisa demands to know how Kyle is as Rick signs off. As Lisa’s fixation on Kyle is one of the worst subplots in all of The Macross Saga, the change here is welcome.

Not sure if this is the first time it’s appeared, but on the last page we see the Comico-specific Zentraedi exclamation “Macek’s eyes!” a cute reference to series producer & story editor Carl Macek.

Having both walked out of “Little White Dragon” during a particular moment both of them found hard to watch, Rick Hunter andLisa Hayes find themselves trapped in a cut off section of the SDF-1 during a full ship transformation. This scene of a slowly thawing relationship comes to us from Robotech: The Macross Saga #21 (Comico, August 1987) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.

evancass:

Reconstruction blues. Robotech/The Killers “A Dustland Fairytale” AMV.

My second anime music video. The ecological & emotional upheavals of Macross’s Reconstruction era — and my appreciation for Minmei & Lisa’s characters — fit well with this ‘killer’ song, my favorite from the Day & Age album.

I think they’re out of my system now. For awhile at least. I’ll do a Southern Cross AMV someday for sure. Anyway – considering this one & the last, I think I’m pretty good at pairing songs & vids for emotional thrust. Hey, if I give myselfgoosebumps…

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