![]() ![]() Judging by the mish-mash of styles at work in the Micronauts-related artwork in the issue and in spite of all the color and elaborate linework. So, what does this say to those of us eager to know what Micronauts will look like next? I'd say that things are - as we're all aware - still in development and subject to approval. Meaning that the form of the final products these items are delivered to toy store shelves as might look and read absolutely nothing like this. In the comic's afterward, Andy Schmidt - Hasbro's marketing manager for these properties and ex-IDW editor for Transformers and GI Joe - notes that the books is a 'love letter' of sorts to the fans of these properties, and isn't intended to be 'the ultimate brand expression for any one' of them. ![]() In the story, Synergy shows the fledgling Acroyear various heroes (all from the classic game and 80's toy properties Hasbro is in the process of rebranding and revitalizing) that she strongly suggests he acquire as allies, teachers and inspirations. The Micronaut storytelling content is penciled by Robert Atkins. named Synergy (originating from Jem and the Holograms ) as his guardians and guides in a quest to find allies and inspirations from Earth and across the galaxy in a battle against Baron Karza. So, what's it all about? Micronauts, I'm happy to report, is central to the whole work.Ī young, new Acroyear has taken the armor and title handed down to him by his father, and awakens from a long period in stasis to find Biotron and a hologramatic A.I. Thanks to friend Jon Riddick, I've got a copy of the Hasbro NYCC comic book in-hand. Give it a read and some thought - the respect due a man who brought a great deal to many of our childhoods, but who lives now having lost so much. This is his story."īill Mantlo's tale is indeed tragic and difficult to read, and certainly - under the pen of LifeHealthPro's author - impossible to not consider even more acutely (by myself at least) in the light of the United States' current cultural and political re-assessment of privatized, corporate health care in our society. But today, he inhabits a broken body abandoned by both the health insurance industry and the federal healthcare reform meant to help people like him. " Bill Mantlo was a legendary writer for Marvel Comics in the 1970s and 1980s. The driven, energetic man's life as a comic book writer and full-time Legal Aid Society lawyer ended when he was struck by hit-and-run driver who left Mantalo with traumatic brain injuries from which his body and intellect has never recovered.Ī detailed look at Mantlo's life, injury and long, tragic road afterward was surprisingly offered recently by LifeHealthPro - a website and on-line journal for the US health insurance industry: ![]() Today, many of us are also aware of the sad fate of Bill Mantlo - the writer who brought us an amazing, complex science fiction epic told in the pages of a comic book series that continued long after Micronauts left the toy stores and even after the Mego Corporation closed its doors and left the toy industry. So many of us who grew up with Micronauts eagerly awaited every issue of the Micronauts comic book from Marvel. ![]()
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