Ro Busters & A.B.C Warriors: Overview

[broodblik]

Here is very nice article on the history of the ABC Warriors (and Ro-Busters) from comicscene:

https://comicscene.org/2023/07/24/ro-busters-a-b-c-warriors-from-boot-up-to-shutdown-a-brief-overview/

[Barrington Boots]

Excellent article this. Nice summary of the strips history and a good critical assessment of when things started to slide. Thanks for posting!

[Dark Jimbo]

So genuinely sad to think it's over - and that the saga had such a damp squib of an ending, to boot.

[broodblik]

Yes it fizzled out and the main problem was that the last few books felt more like a reshuffle of chapters of the previous books but with new art

[Magnetica]

In the middle of the article it says wrt The Shadow Warriors: " Carlos Ezquerra drew book 1, with the quintessential 2000AD artist Henry Flint drawing the remaining 2."

Ok Carlos didn't do his best art on ABC Warriors, and Flint is awesome, but calling someone else "the quintessential 2000AD artist" in a sentence containing the words Carlos Ezquerra just doesn't sound right.

[Funt Solo]

In the middle of the article it says wrt The Shadow Warriors: " Carlos Ezquerra drew book 1, with the quintessential 2000AD artist Henry Flint drawing the remaining 2."

Ok Carlos didn't do his best art on ABC Warriors, and Flint is awesome, but calling someone else "the quintessential 2000AD artist" in a sentence containing the words Carlos Ezquerra just doesn't sound right.

Yeah - it could've worked as "The quintessential Carlos Ezquerra ... with the superlative ... Henry Flint ...".

[JohnW]

calling someone else "the quintessential 2000AD artist" in a sentence containing the words Carlos Ezquerra just doesn't sound right.

And here I side with Luke Williams in the original article.
Ezquerra's art is superlative, and it stands alongside O'Neill's and McMahon's as part of what made 2000AD so special.
But Flint's is quintessentially 2000AD, in that his style is so strongly reminiscent of Ezquerra and O'Neill and McMahon at their Toothiest.
If 2000AD had such a thing as a house style, Henry Flint would be its perfect expression.
Thus 'quintessence' is the right word.

In fact, the only time in my life I have ever used the word is, as far as I know, in relation to the Flint droid.
(If it turns out that I've misunderstood the meaning of the word then I will humbly shut my trap and go to the back of the class.)

[karlos]

Anyone know if there's any reprints of The Black Hole on the horizon?

[nxylas]

(If it turns out that I've misunderstood the meaning of the word then I will humbly shut my trap and go to the back of the class.)

i'd agree with this assessment, FWIW,

[Blue Cactus]

Anyone know if there's any reprints of The Black Hole on the horizon?

It might be nice if they included it in the new Nemesis reprints really. It's pretty much part of the story, and it would be great to see the art in that format.

[karlos]

Anyone know if there's any reprints of The Black Hole on the horizon?

It might be nice if they included it in the new Nemesis reprints really. It's pretty much part of the story, and it would be great to see the art in that format.

Totally agree!