Talk:Robo-Hunter

"Too Violent / Too Frightening", so changed into a comedy ?
The first few episodes of "The Robot Planet" were much darker and menacing than any subsequent Robo-Hunter story.

Arriving on Verdus, Slade and Kidd were thrown into an "extermination camp" - with strikingly realistic imagery of death and suffering - clearly based on newsreel footage of Nazi concentration camps.

After their escape, the story was suspended, with the message: "Sam Slade will be back later in the year."

Sure enough, the story re-commenced some weeks later, but the tone was noticably much lighter and supposedly "satirical". Robots were no longer large and casually lethal: they were short and comical self-parodies. There was no further realistic portrayal of human suffering: only "cartoon-style" comedy violence.

In effect, "The Terminator" was turned into "Carry On Robot Meets Monty Python".

Was the original story suspended and reworked after being decreed "too violent" ? Was it "too real" for the average reader's taste ?

If so, has anyone ever printed the rest of the original - presumably more gruesome - version ?

86.25.122.156 (talk) 12:50, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The full story, including the darker parts, was reprinted in one of 2000ADs reprints. 86.33.176.65 (talk) 18:36, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Inaccurrate?
Is this article correct? I remember that Sam relocated to Brit-City after the troubles he had in his original city for a new start. In fact the pictured cover shows when he first arrives in Brit-City! The poster says "Brit-City : where robots still call you sir! Sam says "If the poster is accurrate I am going to love it here." The customes and exicise robots soon prove the poster to be wrong". 86.33.176.65 (talk) 18:36, 25 August 2009 (UTC)