StarBlazer was a
Science Fiction version of
Commando.
The same format, the same quality of story telling and artwork.
What
StarBlazer had above
Commando though was that it wasn't constrained by fact and historical events.
in Issue 174 (from 1986) then we had
The Terminator, which was kind of a mix between
Judge Dredd and
Robocop.
There are some neat little ideas in here, and whilst the story is told in the typical way (these books did tend to spoon feed the reader a bit too much at times) it's a great little read.
It doesn't shy away from death, and the robot follows its programming to the letter. It announces the reason for the judgement and then carries it out. No messing.
Of course, as usual, humans are behind all the bad things that the robot does, he is after all 'only following his programming'. Marshal Skarr soon finds himself being hunted by the Terminator, his only crime really being that of 'getting in the way'.
It turns out that there's an alien invasion threat and human greed behind it all and Skarr saves the day, despite escaping almost certain death a few times on the way.
An interesting robot design. Almost as if he doesn't have a head, and 'Yes',
The Terminator movie came out a couple of years before this saw print so they probably used the title to try to attract a few more readers, and made the robot look completely different to avoid a lawsuit or two.
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