#rick hunter

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.

As the late Roy Fokker did to Rick Hunter, so Rick does to Max Sterling. This parallel scene I didn’t mind comes from the pages of Robotech: Love & War #5 (DC/Wildstorm, October 2003) by Tommy Yune,Jay Faerber,Long Vo,Charles Park, and Saka.

If someone’s being shown a flashy new top secret mecha that never appeared in the TV series, you’re probably reading an Antarctic Press Robotech comic. Hell, grab a stack of the books and make it a drinking game. Take an extra shot every time the artist slips in a Macross Plus reference. Lee Duhig’sRobotech: Wings of Gibraltar #1 (Antarctic, August 1998) is rife with them, enough to burst your liver, from the relatively subtle (”Galaxy Dynamics” is a riff of YF-21 manufacturer General Galaxy and real world military manufacturer General Dynamics) to the beat-you-over-the-head obvious (on top of the series’s own “Super Veritech Vs. Shiny New Mecha You’ve Never Heard Of” setup there’s a particularly groan-worthy direct dialogue quotation I spared you on the next page, then later IsamuandMyung actually have a cameo).

The best part of this two-issue mini-series: catch the reference to square-headed test pilot McGavin having just been flying the newly developed Super Veritech. This came out concurrent with Gregory Lane’sCovert Ops two-issue mini-series, where Roy Fokker’swhole team was equipped with Super Veritechs back during the journey back to Earth from the space fold. C’mon, guys. Bad enough you bungled the continuity that bad to begin with, but two contradictory minis simultaneously? Good job.

Anyway, yes, here we have the Veritech Interceptor, complete with plenty of specs so you can hazard some guesses as to how to implement it in your Palladium RobotechRPG campaign.