The Arch Deviant: 2000 AD #104

2000AD #104 ©Rebellion A/S

Series: Ro-busters

Publisher: IPC

Published: March 17 1979 (first edition)

ISBN/print: weekly magazine

Size/binding: A4 newspaper

Cover: Carlos Ezquerra

Title: The Fall and Rise of Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein part 2

Artist: Kevin O'Neill

Ro-Busters

Story:

'Robocide': the designated Ro-busters are summoned to board the Preying Mantis while singing 'the robot's farewell'. Marilyn tries to warn Ro-Jaws about the bomb planted in the ship but that don't seems to bother him much "We'll make out somehow" (6 pages).

Comments:

We are introduced to little Mo, Casey, Doctor Feeley Good and X 27 (again for the later). One of numerous Howard Quartz company is IPC Ltd who was 2000 AD publishers in 1979. The parallel with robots and black slave/segregated people is more and more explicit with this strip.