Stories
Timeline: 2078 — 2080
- Day of the Robot
Starlord Starzine 1 (prologue) Unable to find buyers for his merchandize, robot dealer "Flash" Harry Lowder orders his second-hand robots to report to Mek-Quake for destruction. Ro-Jaws and Hammer-Stein are among those droids saved due to a timely intervention by billionaire entrepreneur, Howard "Mr. Ten Per Cent" Quartz.
- The North Sea Tunnel"
Starlord Starzine 1 (1 episode) A submarine crashes through the North Sea Tunnel connecting Britain and Scandinavia.
- Red Mist
Starlord Starzines 2 — 4 (3 episodes) An experimental gas leaks through the Florida swamps. Humans and animals alike succumb to its effects, causing them to go insane with violent consequences.
- Midpoint
Starlord Starzines 5 — 6 (2 episodes) As part of a secret US program, Lep-574 is the latest rocket launched from the Yucca Dessert, Nevada. Containing nuclear waste bound for outer-space, the rocket malfunctions, crashing into Midpoint, London's foremost conference tower.
- The Ritz Space Hotel
Starlord Starzines 7 — 12 (6 episodes)
- Farnborough Droid Show
Starlord Starzines 13 — 14 (2 episodes)
- Massacre on the Moon
Starlord Starzines 15 — 19 (5 episodes)
- The Taxman Cometh!
Starlord Starzines 20 — 22 (3 episodes)
- Death on the Orient Express
2000 AD Progs Progs 86 — 87 (2 episodes)
- Hammer-Stein's War Memoirs
2000 AD Progs 88 — 92 (5 episodes) Hammerstein recounts his war stories as the first successful war robot fighting against the Volgans alongside humans.
- Ro-Jaws's Memoirs
2000 AD Progs 93 — 97 (5 episodes)
- The Terra-Meks
2000 AD Progs 98 — 101 (4 episodes) Plans to flatten and redevelop an old port go wrong when the demolition team - the gargantuan but particularly low intelligence Terra-Meks - go on the rampage. The harbour pilot, an equally large but good-natured robot stops them. The only member of the Ro-busters to appear is Mek-Quake.
- The Rise and Fall of Ro-Jaws and Hammer-Stein
2000 AD Progs 103 — 115 (13 episodes) The robots escape a planned insurance write-off when their transport craft is blown up by their own boss. They find out about the robot underground that takes robots to safety on a moon in the outer solar system. To help the others get away, a few robots (led by Hammerstein, and including Ro-jaws) stay behind.
- Avalanche!
2000 AD Annual 1980 (1 episode)
- Earthquake!
2000 AD Annual 1981 (1 episode)
- Bax the Burner
2000 AD Annual 1982 (1 episode) written by Alan Moore
- Old Red Eyes is Back!
2000 AD Annual 1983 (1 episode) written by Alan Moore
- Stormeagles Are Go!
2000 AD Annual 1984 (1 episode) written by Alan Moore
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Famous quotes containing the word stories:
“We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)