The Complete Ro-Busters

One day when i was a (very small) boy my parents bought me a comic, it was a newish title called Star Lord, and it probably changed my life. Why, well it included an amazing comic strip about a group of misfit robots involved in disaster rescue and recovery called the Ro-Busters. I immediately became a massive fan, and to this day love the adventures of Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein. 

This amazing volume collects together all of the Ro-Busters adventures from Star Lord and later on 2000AD (which i started reading because Ro-Busters moved there after Star Lord folded). 

In many ways, Ro-Busters was inspired by the TV series Thunderbirds though with sarcastic robots instead of puppets obviously. The earlier adventures are fairly simple adventure/rescue stories but later on the stories began to mature, and politics and social comment made their appearance, especially after the move to 2000AD. Despite being a comic strip primarily involving robots the stories managed to include amazing levels of emotion and soul.

Ro-Jaws, Hammerstein and the rather dodgy cyborg boss Mr Quartz are the stars of the strip though as time went on a whole host of secondary characters also began to build up including the deranged Mek-Quake. The collection takes us through to the conclusion of the script in an epic final story where the Ro-Busters are broken up and Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein try and escape the Earth. 

Later on they were reunited in Nemesis and the ABC Warriors of course but this is to come...