Again another beautiful piece of artwork from Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue two.
All uncredited articles and artwork contents for issue two were again me, and was again joined by Alex Stewart, and Simon Kemp who read the first issue, sent me a couple of reviews too.
Mechs at Large editorial offering pointers to what I was interested in and what I would be writing about.
Japanima Talking about mecha animation shows on American syndicated TV, and how this fed back to influence what the Japanese animation studios were doing.
Manga, Manga Started with me praising the American mecha comic Dynamo Jo by Doug Rice, which should be much better known that it is, followed by his four issue mini-series of Star Blazers. Also, mentioned were the translated Japanese properties Xenon, Area 88 manga, and Mai Psychic Girl.
Warnography Alex Stewart reviewed Price of Glory by William Keith, and The Devils Hand by Jack McKinney, with again a harsh, but fair review of the latter.
Encounter on Ice was a scenario inspired by watching Mad Max with four mech designs by me for the intruders to give Max's lance a hard time.
Snapshots Simon Kemp reviwed Aerotech, Technical Readout 2, and the Succession Wars Battletech boardgame. While I reviewed Stardate Vol 3, issue 2, and my thoughts on the first three issues of Battle Technology (buy MekTek instead).
Meka of Design was a long article by me breaking down the battlemech construction rules.
MekTek Trio I reviewed the BattleTech Manual comparing the rules against the original BattleDroids and BattleTech box set rules.
MekTek LOCs I published a letter by Sam Lewis of FASA, and two letters by readers of issue 1.
The plan is to put all four of the MekTek issues on DriveThruRPG at some point this year, along with the revised OHMU War Machine rules, which requires some work to make if a PDF.
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Cool! Loving the path of rediscovery you are wandering!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of it in that light. Rather, my friend Carlo. who is big into anime, asked me if I had any copies, because he gave his to friends. I didn't, and as he's a good friend, and because Susan has access to a scanner, here we are.
DeleteIt's the same scenario with OHMU. Another friend, Jason wanted a copy of OHMU, but again I had none spare. Copies of OHMU have been requested by various acquaintances over the years, but without a scanner the task of assembling a PDF were huge. Well beyond my limited means.
Hence the flurry of activity.