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Rogue Trooper
Rogue Trooper VOL 02: Fort Neuro
Rogue Troopers quest to hunt down and kill the traitor responsible for the deaths of his comrades continues in this second explosive volume. Hot on the traitors trail, Rogue finds himself at Fort Neuropa, a key Souther position which has been under siege for years... for so long, in fact, that the inhabitants are starting to become very strange indeed!
- GenresComicsGraphic NovelsWar
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2005
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October 30, 2020
Although histories of 2000AD tend to be a bit snobby about Gerry Finlay Day, he understands Rogue Trooper better than almost anyone else who’s tried their hands at the character. The problem really is that there’s only a finite amount of stories you can tell with such a simple character, especially once his one main motivation - the traitor general - was tidied up. He can’t mature as a character because that’s not the world he’s in or the character he is: he’s an unstoppable clone soldier who chats to his dead buddies to keep away the boredom. That’s kind of it
Dave Gibbons crucially misunderstood this when he rebooted the character as Friday, which ended up as sour and self important and unable to indulge in the joyous whimsy this book manages to juggle with the future war stuff. There’s a lot of future war angst here, but nicely balanced with detours into disco, satire and more. I think it’s been very wise that any visits to Nu-Earth since have been peripheral stories like Jaegir, because there’s only so far this can stretch. Unlike Johnny Alpha there isn’t that burning injustice spurring him on or Joe Dredd’s slow, weary tumble into doubtful old age. He just keeps on going with his mission until he becomes legend
Dave Gibbons crucially misunderstood this when he rebooted the character as Friday, which ended up as sour and self important and unable to indulge in the joyous whimsy this book manages to juggle with the future war stuff. There’s a lot of future war angst here, but nicely balanced with detours into disco, satire and more. I think it’s been very wise that any visits to Nu-Earth since have been peripheral stories like Jaegir, because there’s only so far this can stretch. Unlike Johnny Alpha there isn’t that burning injustice spurring him on or Joe Dredd’s slow, weary tumble into doubtful old age. He just keeps on going with his mission until he becomes legend
June 21, 2014
Here is the last of the collection to read - although there was a 6th book which is now out of print (technically it has been reprinted but in a new format which I think has changed to progs what went in to it)
This is in fact book 2 of the series - yes I know I didn't know at the time which order they were running in and wound up reading the last book first!
The artwork I guess (along with other 2000AD stalwarts like Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors and Strontium Dog) is very much a British style - so much so that in the Fort Neuro story arc many of the characters are Caricatures of the fashions and personalities seen running up to the early 80s. As a result they have been a great read for nostalgia but I am happy to move on to something else.
This is in fact book 2 of the series - yes I know I didn't know at the time which order they were running in and wound up reading the last book first!
The artwork I guess (along with other 2000AD stalwarts like Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors and Strontium Dog) is very much a British style - so much so that in the Fort Neuro story arc many of the characters are Caricatures of the fashions and personalities seen running up to the early 80s. As a result they have been a great read for nostalgia but I am happy to move on to something else.
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