![]() ![]() This series was well received and Rennie attempted to reboot the continuity for a second time, but was blocked by the editors. In 2002, popular writer Gordon Rennie revisited the Rogue continuity with a new series of stories set during the hunt for the Traitor General. The series was supposedly ended for good in 1996, though the odd spinoff did appear. This move was not well-received due to continuity issues and some rather controversial plot points. This run reintroduced the biochips, which to Gibbons' chagrin turned out to be the most popular aspect of the Rogue continuity.Īfter Fleisher, Steve White took up the writing, and in order to regain interest had Friday team up with Rogue, who now existed in the same universe. After it ended, Michael Fleisher picked it up, and had a new set of adventures as Friday wandered Nu Earth, trying to do justice where he could. It was pretty self-contained, though left the door open for future stories. Gibbons' run was short but well acclaimed. However, the story was basically the same: all but one of the GIs are wiped out in a massacre, and the one survivor goes rogue and treks back to the high command to find out what happened. The biochips were done away with, as Gibbons wanted the new protagonist, Friday, to have a more spiritual connection with his comrades. He completely rebooted the series with a new character, new war, and new planet. Gibbons returned to the strip in 1990, this time as a writer. He was reinducted back into the Souther army, but then without a major goal, the comic foundered and ultimately sputtered out. ![]() His comrades are in the form of biochips (onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval) and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet).Īfter about three years, Rogue finally found and killed the Traitor General. ( Genetic Infantryman) and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General, a man in the Souther high command who sold the Southers' battle plans to the Norts, which led to the massacre of all the GIs except Rogue. Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the British comic ~2000 AD~, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons and first published in 1981 and is ongoing.Īgainst a backdrop of a future war between two factions, the noble Southers and evil Norts, the comic follows Rogue, a G.I. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. ![]() All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. ![]()
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