Title: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Ochs on 11 June, 2010, 12:02:01 PM
Post by: Ochs on 11 June, 2010, 12:02:01 PM
What was the name of that Robo Hunter world cup story back in the eighties, I loved it when I was a kid.
How about a bagged collected edition with the Meg this month?
Too late I know, but a nice thought.
How about a bagged collected edition with the Meg this month?
Too late I know, but a nice thought.
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 12:28:11 PM
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 12:28:11 PM
This was the story that confirmed my growing feeling that Robohunter was getting a bit shit - absolutely dire, with a robot Jimmy Hill and tiresome jokes about hooligans. Please don't reprint this ever!
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 June, 2010, 12:32:44 PM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 June, 2010, 12:32:44 PM
Football Crazy.
Once again we fallen before the mighty Barney
http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=SAMSLADE (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=SAMSLADE)
Once again we fallen before the mighty Barney
QuoteFootball Crazy 6 episodes (Progs 283 to 288) 30 pages
Script: John Wagner/Alan Grant, Artist: Ian Gibson
Reprinted
The Best of 2000AD 10
Rebellion: Robo-Hunter Play it Again, Sam
Quality: Sam Slade Robo-Hunter (Volume 2) 14 (1-3), Colour: Unknown
Quality: Sam Slade Robo-Hunter (Volume 2) 15 (4-6), Colour: Unknown
http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=SAMSLADE (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=SAMSLADE)
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Buddy on 11 June, 2010, 03:57:25 PM
Post by: Buddy on 11 June, 2010, 03:57:25 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 12:28:11 PM
This was the story that confirmed my growing feeling that Robohunter was getting a bit shit - absolutely dire, with a robot Jimmy Hill and tiresome jokes about hooligans. Please don't reprint this ever!
Ye wha?
No such thing as a shit Gibson Robo Hunter story (I'm talkin Sam here, not Samantha)
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 05:00:39 PM
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 05:00:39 PM
Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 11 June, 2010, 03:57:25 PMQuote from: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2010, 12:28:11 PM
This was the story that confirmed my growing feeling that Robohunter was getting a bit shit - absolutely dire, with a robot Jimmy Hill and tiresome jokes about hooligans. Please don't reprint this ever!
Ye wha?
No such thing as a shit Gibson Robo Hunter story (I'm talkin Sam here, not Samantha)
As a pre-ten year old I found 'Mind your Language' hilarious, but by the time I was reading the prog, an endless parade of crude national sterotypes just left me cold. Nothing wrong with the art, fantastic, I just thought this was a lame story.
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Banners on 11 June, 2010, 05:14:58 PM
Post by: Banners on 11 June, 2010, 05:14:58 PM
I have a spare Best Of #10 which reprints it - PM me if anyone wants it.
M@
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Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Jared Katooie on 11 June, 2010, 11:24:51 PM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 11 June, 2010, 11:24:51 PM
BLAKEE PENTAX!
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Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: W. R. Logan on 12 June, 2010, 12:36:37 AM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 12 June, 2010, 12:36:37 AM
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: M.I.K. on 12 June, 2010, 01:07:29 AM
Post by: M.I.K. on 12 June, 2010, 01:07:29 AM
Oh dear.
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: JOE SOAP on 12 June, 2010, 01:17:47 AM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 12 June, 2010, 01:17:47 AM
I love national stereotypes and the lampooning of all sacred lambs. Irreverence is king and Twoth was at it's best while doing it.
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Grant Goggans on 12 June, 2010, 03:22:17 AM
Post by: Grant Goggans on 12 June, 2010, 03:22:17 AM
In Robo-Hunter, the entire population of the UK is repeatedly depicted as lazy, indolent, entitled jerks who only care about whatever the robot-controlled media tells them to care about. They sing when Robo-Thatcher tells them to, they support robot footballers just because it's World Cup time. The whole country happily sits around collecting welfare checks and obsessing over mindless soap operas starring babies.
My take is that when writers are willing to savage their own cultural stereotypes that way, then they've earned the right to be playful with other cultures. If the Brits in Robo-Hunter's world were incredibly noble and perfect, then the "minestrone" and "Pentax" gags would be troublesome, but that's not what's happening here.
The other side of the coin would be '60s strips like Kelly's Eye, where you have a blond, square-jawed, intellectual superman occasionally coming up against booga-booga stereotypes, or this tribe of "Seminoles" in the Florida Everglades that looked like castoffs from a '40s film serial. Titan reprinted that story a few years ago, and that really was shocking, seeing that level of dimwit cultural insensitivity.
It's all in the presentation. If you're willing to lampoon everybody and are especially harsh on your own culture, then the sky's the limit, I say. I know it's a slippery slope, but comedy's a tough business.
(We're all agreed that nobody wants France winning the Cup again, right?)
My take is that when writers are willing to savage their own cultural stereotypes that way, then they've earned the right to be playful with other cultures. If the Brits in Robo-Hunter's world were incredibly noble and perfect, then the "minestrone" and "Pentax" gags would be troublesome, but that's not what's happening here.
The other side of the coin would be '60s strips like Kelly's Eye, where you have a blond, square-jawed, intellectual superman occasionally coming up against booga-booga stereotypes, or this tribe of "Seminoles" in the Florida Everglades that looked like castoffs from a '40s film serial. Titan reprinted that story a few years ago, and that really was shocking, seeing that level of dimwit cultural insensitivity.
It's all in the presentation. If you're willing to lampoon everybody and are especially harsh on your own culture, then the sky's the limit, I say. I know it's a slippery slope, but comedy's a tough business.
(We're all agreed that nobody wants France winning the Cup again, right?)
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: Leigh S on 12 June, 2010, 07:51:37 AM
Post by: Leigh S on 12 June, 2010, 07:51:37 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 12 June, 2010, 03:22:17 AM
(We're all agreed that nobody wants France winning the Cup again, right?)
I've got em in the works sweepstake, so.....
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: The Monarch on 12 June, 2010, 01:58:39 PM
Post by: The Monarch on 12 June, 2010, 01:58:39 PM
Isn't this in one of the big new thick phonebook editions?
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: SuperSurfer on 12 June, 2010, 02:40:54 PM
Post by: SuperSurfer on 12 June, 2010, 02:40:54 PM
I loved Robo Hunter when it first appeared. By the time of the World Cup story, I really wanted to like it but never did from then on.
Title: Re: Robo Hunter World Cup Story
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 June, 2010, 03:05:13 PM
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 June, 2010, 03:05:13 PM
Quote from: Leigh Shepherd on 12 June, 2010, 07:51:37 AMMe too.Quote from: Grant Goggans on 12 June, 2010, 03:22:17 AMI've got em in the works sweepstake, so.....
(We're all agreed that nobody wants France winning the Cup again, right?)
Mr Goggans makes an excellent point above: it's the same reason people complaining about the Simpsons are wrong. Personally, I've never much liked Robo Hunter. I think it's mostly because my first exposure to him was in the supremely irritating Play It Again, Sam.