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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.
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Your obligatory action sequence, breaking up another series of bad decisions on the part of one Richard A. Hunter, from the pages of Robotech: The Macross Saga #34 (Comico, December 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.
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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.
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Oh no, it’s the story that, if Macross were a bad Saturday morning cartoon, we would be seeing every week instead of just the once. If you ask me, though, once was too many, though the episode does have its joys. For instance, we get to delight to the sight of Azonia torturingLynn Kyle.Khyron proving himself immune to Minmei’s song is also an interesting moment, though we’d seen him placidly listening to her before back in “Force of Arms.” (Not pictured: the bit where a loyalist Zentraedi produces a giant cigarette and asks a Veritech Battloid to use its gun pod to give him a light, which I think we can all agree is the best scene in the episode.)
Anyway, yes, here’s some of the less objectionable bits of “Khyron’s Revenge,” from the pages of Robotech: The Macross Saga #32 (Comico, October 1988). Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke do what they can, but, y’know, there’s only so much you can do with “Khyron kidnaps Minmei and demands that Admiral Gloval give him the SDF-1.”
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Thanks to Lynn Kyle’s, *ahem*, crowd management skills,Rick Hunter andSkull Squadron have been driven out of New Detroit. In their absence, the piece of Robotechnology they were trying to keep secure, a rare Zentraedi resizing chamber, becomes easy prey for the renegades led by Khyron. This latest case of Kyle’s hatred for the military overriding common sense appears from the pages of Robotech: The Macross Saga #31 (Comico, September 1988) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.
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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.
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First date turns into knife fight. Knife fight turns into marriage proposal. The preface to one of the most beloved shotgun weddings in animation history, far more lovingly rendered than it was on television, from the pages of Robotech: The Macross Saga #25 (Comico, February 1988 – oh, cute, right around Valentine’s Day) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.
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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.
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Dolza has decided that the SDF-1 has become too dangerous. His point is proven by the behavior of the troops under Breetai’s command, who have fallen under the sway of the humans’ consumer culture. Meanwhileaboard the SDF-1, Rick Hunter considers the distinct possibility of his own death. These scenes from an escalating war come to us from Robotech: The Macross Saga #22 (Comico, October 1987) by Markalan Joplin &Mike Leeke.
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I’m not usually one to get angry over simple jokes, but lately a lot has been put into perspective for me. Mike Chen of Strictly Dumpling made a joke to describe meat by saying “and the meat comes apart like a typical Taylor Swift relationship.” I’ve watched this man for years and I am so terribly upset by this. He wouldn’t make a joke about his last relationship that fell apart like that meat, would he? He wouldn’t make a joke about a man whose gone through relationships, would he? No, because instead he made a joke about someone who has been scrutinized for being in less relationships than even myself. And it’s perpetuated as such a crime and joke because she’s a woman. Reconsidering a lot because that’s some bullllllshit.
“I’ll figure something out” probably wound up being the last sentence said by a lot of people in difficult scenarios.
We Could Be Heroes // Mike Chen
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