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Rogue Trooper, 'Fear of the Machine', Ep 2, p4, 2000AD #247

Artist: Colin Wilson (All)

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Rogue Trooper, 'Fear of the Machine', Ep 2, p4, 2000AD #247 Comic Art

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Title:	Rogue Trooper, 'Fear of the Machine', Ep 2, p4, 2000AD #247
Artist:	Colin Wilson (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	793
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	9/7/2013
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The bio-chips take electronic life within the heart of a vicious Nort computer in this Tron-via-Fantastic-Voyage adventure for Helm and Bagman. Rogue, meanwhile, is being crushed by what looks suspiciously like a tattooed version of Rover from 'The Prisoner'. I always loved this story, ever since I first encountered it in the Titan collection - the at-times surreal way in which Colin Wilson depicts the innards of the machine gives the cybernetic landscape a strange, pristine alien beauty which serves as an inventive contrast to the poisonous hell of Nu-Earth.

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David Rees
Member Since 2010

Posted on 9/11/2013

Colin Wilson's Rogue is phenomenal stuff; THE most skilled artist when it comes to Future Tech and rock-solid designs. I imagine this must have been a challenging story to illustrate and I can imagine much of the detail was left to Colin to flesh out (or digitise); it would be fascinating to see the creative gulf between the script and the finished art. Great page, Greg - particularly that final panel!

Greg Meldrum
Member Since 2010

Posted on 9/11/2013

Thanks, David. It would indeed be fascinating to see an actual Finley-Day script and then compare it to what's on the page - I strongly suspect that you're right, and that Colin had pretty free rein in depicting the cyberscape. I expect for some artists that would be pretty daunting, but it strikes me, if the above is true, that Colin took the opportunity and ran with it. The end result seems evocative to me of a certain moment in time - the weirdness of 70s-style New Wave SF colliding with the more technologically-oriented nascent cyberpunk visuals of the '80s.

Daniel Ashton
Member Since 2013

Posted on 7/20/2021

God I love this page!

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