Title: Robo-Hunter
Post by: Smiley on 04 July, 2002, 01:03:00 AM
Post by: Smiley on 04 July, 2002, 01:03:00 AM
Sam(antha) Slade?
Imagine Sam having a daughter, a real chip off the old block, who inherits her fathers business. (Inheriting Hoagy and Stogie into the bargain much to Sam's relief.)
Would there be any chance of such a strip? Was it ever considered? And why not?
It'd have to be written by John Wagner and drawn by Gibson of course. Wagner could exercise his chuckle muscles and Gibson gets to draw another gorgeous female.
(It might even destroy all memory of Millar & Casanovas' failed revamp.)
Imagine Sam having a daughter, a real chip off the old block, who inherits her fathers business. (Inheriting Hoagy and Stogie into the bargain much to Sam's relief.)
Would there be any chance of such a strip? Was it ever considered? And why not?
It'd have to be written by John Wagner and drawn by Gibson of course. Wagner could exercise his chuckle muscles and Gibson gets to draw another gorgeous female.
(It might even destroy all memory of Millar & Casanovas' failed revamp.)
Title: Re: Robo-Hunter
Post by: paulvonscott on 04 July, 2002, 01:07:01 AM
Post by: paulvonscott on 04 July, 2002, 01:07:01 AM
Now that idea has more legs than an egg, and we all know they have two.
Title: Re: Robo-Hunter
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 04 July, 2002, 01:14:37 AM
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 04 July, 2002, 01:14:37 AM
As long as she has a talking monkey side-kick then it's fine with me.
Title: by dickens, we have no bananas
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 July, 2002, 11:18:13 AM
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 July, 2002, 11:18:13 AM
even better, samantha's down on her luck & the talking monkey own's the business.
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 04 July, 2002, 11:20:28 AM
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 04 July, 2002, 11:20:28 AM
Sounds dangerously like Demarco... but hey - talking monkeys! Who wouldn't want a strip like that? :-)
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: Devons Daddy on 04 July, 2002, 12:05:50 PM
Post by: Devons Daddy on 04 July, 2002, 12:05:50 PM
great idea
robo hunters return. but with a female lead im for it.
robo hunters return. but with a female lead im for it.
Title: Girls just wanna have guns.
Post by: Smiley on 04 July, 2002, 01:02:07 PM
Post by: Smiley on 04 July, 2002, 01:02:07 PM
Apart from Halo Jones, the most successful female characters are spin-offs from already popular strips. Durham Red (Strontium Dog), Venus Bluegenes (Rogue Trooper) and several varieties of Judge.
A female Robo-Hunter is a bit uninspired, but then other more original heroines always seem doomed to failure, so this could be the next best thing.
It's unlikely we'll ever get to see Halo again, and even if we did a reappearance might not live up to such great expectations.
It's probably best to wait and see what Lifeboat is like first, if and when 2000AD publishes it.
A female Robo-Hunter is a bit uninspired, but then other more original heroines always seem doomed to failure, so this could be the next best thing.
It's unlikely we'll ever get to see Halo again, and even if we did a reappearance might not live up to such great expectations.
It's probably best to wait and see what Lifeboat is like first, if and when 2000AD publishes it.
Title: Re: Girls just wanna have guns....
Post by: stodge on 04 July, 2002, 02:53:05 PM
Post by: stodge on 04 July, 2002, 02:53:05 PM
what's the game smiley?
you come up with a potentially cracking idea for a story that people appear to agree with and then argue with yourself about it not 12 hours later?
my names smiley, i'm not Schizophrenic and neither am i!!!
good idea anyway. i'd like to see it but i would like to see lifeboat as well.....hmm..now i'm doing it....
you come up with a potentially cracking idea for a story that people appear to agree with and then argue with yourself about it not 12 hours later?
my names smiley, i'm not Schizophrenic and neither am i!!!
good idea anyway. i'd like to see it but i would like to see lifeboat as well.....hmm..now i'm doing it....
Title: Re: Girls just wanna have guns.......
Post by: Trout on 04 July, 2002, 04:31:40 PM
Post by: Trout on 04 July, 2002, 04:31:40 PM
I don't care what the strip is, as long as the great Ian Gibson draws it!
But a few thoughts on why Robohunter was better than something like Demarco PI...
The success of the strip was based on its comedy and sheer zany chaotic events, with poor old Sam as the straight man left to deal with everything.
The hook was in the madness of Verdus, or the singing Brit Cit Robots, of the island of the evil Doctor Droid.
IMHO the best moment in the strip - and possibly the funniest ever in 2K - was Sam's reaction to the hospital ward full of Hoagies.
"Oh great god of Robohunters, don't do this to your old pal!" - or words to that effect. His reaction, added to the madness, said it all.
The same effect could be achieved with a female Slade (and, let's face it, Ian's women are some of the best ever) if the writing is strong enough.
However, I fully approve of stories with talking monkeys in them.
- Trout
But a few thoughts on why Robohunter was better than something like Demarco PI...
The success of the strip was based on its comedy and sheer zany chaotic events, with poor old Sam as the straight man left to deal with everything.
The hook was in the madness of Verdus, or the singing Brit Cit Robots, of the island of the evil Doctor Droid.
IMHO the best moment in the strip - and possibly the funniest ever in 2K - was Sam's reaction to the hospital ward full of Hoagies.
"Oh great god of Robohunters, don't do this to your old pal!" - or words to that effect. His reaction, added to the madness, said it all.
The same effect could be achieved with a female Slade (and, let's face it, Ian's women are some of the best ever) if the writing is strong enough.
However, I fully approve of stories with talking monkeys in them.
- Trout
Title: Re: Girls just wanna have guns.......
Post by: Devons Daddy on 04 July, 2002, 04:34:58 PM
Post by: Devons Daddy on 04 July, 2002, 04:34:58 PM
ok lets get this straight we like the idea of a female robo hunter,
we all think life boat is worth a run as well.
the robo hunter nostalga maybe ?, but we have seen the return of bad company, though maybe we should have not tried with book three, debatable.
we have the return of the VCs, cracking stuff. so rather then another hit or miss, lets go with lifeboat, we get a new story, highly likely to be a classic with gibson drawing. then after we ask for another try at a reviving an old story. does not always work so lets see how VCs return goes and then discuss this again.
im with smiley on this one. nothing wrong with a sharing an idea and then reconsidering.
we all think life boat is worth a run as well.
the robo hunter nostalga maybe ?, but we have seen the return of bad company, though maybe we should have not tried with book three, debatable.
we have the return of the VCs, cracking stuff. so rather then another hit or miss, lets go with lifeboat, we get a new story, highly likely to be a classic with gibson drawing. then after we ask for another try at a reviving an old story. does not always work so lets see how VCs return goes and then discuss this again.
im with smiley on this one. nothing wrong with a sharing an idea and then reconsidering.
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 July, 2002, 11:41:13 AM
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 July, 2002, 11:41:13 AM
>Sounds dangerously like Demarco... but hey - talking monkeys!
sorry, blackblood, but demarco pi features a talking ape. sure, their both primates, but this argument would compare the idea to virtually every story ever published in 2000ad (there was even a talking primate in the first episode of shakara).
whilst we're on th subject of talking primates which aren't hominids in robohunter, don't forget kid's mom, dying of some terminal disease had her head transplanted onto a gibbon's body because he was too tightfisted to afford the human model.
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
sorry, blackblood, but demarco pi features a talking ape. sure, their both primates, but this argument would compare the idea to virtually every story ever published in 2000ad (there was even a talking primate in the first episode of shakara).
whilst we're on th subject of talking primates which aren't hominids in robohunter, don't forget kid's mom, dying of some terminal disease had her head transplanted onto a gibbon's body because he was too tightfisted to afford the human model.
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 05 July, 2002, 01:09:52 PM
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 05 July, 2002, 01:09:52 PM
Mmmm - can't quite tell whether your correction is serious or not, but:
Yep, Demarco featured a talking gorilla, and I'm quite aware that the three subspecies of Gorilla gorilla are, AFAIK still considered apes - along with the three subspecies of Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, the two subspecies of Pongo pygmaeus & the nine species of Hylobates - and are emphatically not monkeys.
That line was a pretty weak joke, and now I've finished being a wanker for today, I'll be off ;-)
Yep, Demarco featured a talking gorilla, and I'm quite aware that the three subspecies of Gorilla gorilla are, AFAIK still considered apes - along with the three subspecies of Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, the two subspecies of Pongo pygmaeus & the nine species of Hylobates - and are emphatically not monkeys.
That line was a pretty weak joke, and now I've finished being a wanker for today, I'll be off ;-)
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 05 July, 2002, 04:46:41 PM
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 05 July, 2002, 04:46:41 PM
Who cares? If it eats banana's and throws it's own poo about then it should be in the strip.
Title: 2000ad featuring
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 July, 2002, 07:29:13 PM
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 July, 2002, 07:29:13 PM
the new adventures of garth;P
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
Title: Re: 2000ad featuring
Post by: Buddy on 05 July, 2002, 08:33:12 PM
Post by: Buddy on 05 July, 2002, 08:33:12 PM
What is it with Gorilla's in comics these days.. I'm not familiar with the DeMarco story but Philip Bond had a Vertico series "Angel and the Ape' about a P.I. agency run by a crackin' blond and a Gorilla, and I'm sure I can remember another (the name escapes me at the moment).
A female robohunter - yes and no...
Yes for Gibsons females (I fell in love with a character in Halo Jones, can't remember her name and anyway she never returned my calls...)
No for Robohunter can only be Sam Slade, I would find it hard to accept an new version.
But with Gibson and Wagner as creators well... that would be just peachy.
Anything with Gibson will do but a new Robohunter would just top it all.
I think I'd like to see that more than anything else in 2000AD. Forget RT, forget VC's forget SD, do what must be done to get a new series of Robohunter with Gibson/Wagner and we'll even forgive you about the really shitty revamp stuff.
Nuff said...
A female robohunter - yes and no...
Yes for Gibsons females (I fell in love with a character in Halo Jones, can't remember her name and anyway she never returned my calls...)
No for Robohunter can only be Sam Slade, I would find it hard to accept an new version.
But with Gibson and Wagner as creators well... that would be just peachy.
Anything with Gibson will do but a new Robohunter would just top it all.
I think I'd like to see that more than anything else in 2000AD. Forget RT, forget VC's forget SD, do what must be done to get a new series of Robohunter with Gibson/Wagner and we'll even forgive you about the really shitty revamp stuff.
Nuff said...
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Title: Re: 2000ad featuring
Post by: eggonlegs on 05 July, 2002, 10:17:30 PM
Post by: eggonlegs on 05 July, 2002, 10:17:30 PM
what about a lesbian robohunter, who hates men???
Title: Re: 2000ad featuring
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 05 July, 2002, 10:22:52 PM
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 05 July, 2002, 10:22:52 PM
---what about a lesbian robohunter, who hates men???---
Are you Mark Millar?
Are you Mark Millar?
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: W. R. Logan on 07 July, 2002, 11:00:18 PM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 07 July, 2002, 11:00:18 PM
>Sounds dangerously like Demarco... but hey - talking monkeys! Who wouldn't want a strip like that? :-)
Talking monkeys are so passe 8-)
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
Talking monkeys are so passe 8-)
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
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Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: Art on 08 July, 2002, 06:43:23 PM
Post by: Art on 08 July, 2002, 06:43:23 PM
Talking monkeys are so passe 8-)
I didn't really understand the talking monkey craze. The dinosaurs craze, I could understand that, the putting Vampires into everything craze I kind of dig, though obviously i'm fucking sick of it and never want to see it again. But a talking monkey craze? WTF? Why did that idea suddenly catch on and we ended up with 4 or 5 different talking monkey strips in the Spring of '02?
I guess pop culture is a capricious thing
I didn't really understand the talking monkey craze. The dinosaurs craze, I could understand that, the putting Vampires into everything craze I kind of dig, though obviously i'm fucking sick of it and never want to see it again. But a talking monkey craze? WTF? Why did that idea suddenly catch on and we ended up with 4 or 5 different talking monkey strips in the Spring of '02?
I guess pop culture is a capricious thing
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: Smiley on 08 July, 2002, 06:48:08 PM
Post by: Smiley on 08 July, 2002, 06:48:08 PM
Ask Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch. "Re-Imagining"? Pah!
Title: Re: by dickens, we have no bananas...
Post by: Art on 08 July, 2002, 06:56:06 PM
Post by: Art on 08 July, 2002, 06:56:06 PM
Doh. You know, I was so shocked and traumatised by the naffness of that my movie that up until this moment I successfully managed to repress the memory of its existance.
Title: Re: Robo-Hunter
Post by: Skullmo on 13 January, 2015, 01:41:06 PM
Post by: Skullmo on 13 January, 2015, 01:41:06 PM
Quote from: Smiley on 04 July, 2002, 01:03:00 AM
Sam(antha) Slade?
Imagine Sam having a daughter, a real chip off the old block, who inherits her fathers business. (Inheriting Hoagy and Stogie into the bargain much to Sam's relief.)
Would there be any chance of such a strip? Was it ever considered? And why not?
It'd have to be written by John Wagner and drawn by Gibson of course. Wagner could exercise his chuckle muscles and Gibson gets to draw another gorgeous female.
(It might even destroy all memory of Millar & Casanovas' failed revamp.)
<img src="http://www.igibson.demon.co.uk/axis%20lady%20-sam-sm.jpg">
Necroposting I know - but I never knew the idea came from the forum! How interesting.
'Miracles' do happen . . .
Title: Re: Robo-Hunter
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 January, 2015, 01:49:21 PM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 January, 2015, 01:49:21 PM
Good find!
Interesting I wonder if this did play into things or was just a coincidence?
Interesting I wonder if this did play into things or was just a coincidence?
Title: Re: Robo-Hunter
Post by: ZenArcade on 13 January, 2015, 07:02:10 PM
Post by: ZenArcade on 13 January, 2015, 07:02:10 PM
Maybe Molch R is right, any suggestions from this forum should be treated in the same fashion as a 1993 Mark Millar 2000ad plot premise would be treated in an ideal world. Z