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This issue being a Mega Man one, it comes with a side story showing the titular blue boi training in the Sky Patrol alongside his “younger brother” X! Their interactions are honestly pretty wholesome and its cool seeing what Mega Man thinks oif X’s time period, likewise with X hearing how Rock deals with Dr. Wily.

The best bit of Mega Man #50 right here!

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It probably sounds like a broken record, but this year my birthday gift to myself was buying more inked Archie Mega Man pages from Gary Martin. 

Since having the majority of Issue 42 is a big thing for me, grabbed the 2nd page of Issue 43, which is the essential end of the Gemini Man battle from 42.

Then a nice run of pages from Issue 46, one that I haven’t had any pages from before. Most of these focus on the Break Man battle outside of Wily Castle (pages 9, 13, 14, 15), before a later page in 19 that is in the castle. Essentially it’s supposed to be from Wily Stage 2, as it’s after the Kamegoro Maker battle page. But it uses Hammer Joe from Wily Stage 1 to show how he got out of the sewer-like stage instead. Wily Stage 2 was pretty short, that the Rush Jet portion is probably the only memorable part, so I get that. We didn’t need nightmares of respawning Have “Su” Bee’s and Wanaan traps drawn, I suppose.

Next, page 15 of Issue 48, which is the cool part of Megaman 3′s ending where Break Man teleports in after Wily and Rock are crushed by falling castle debris. “Where is Dr. Wiley?... Oh no, too late.” Splat.

And what should be the final page, is from Issue 53. It’s the 2nd page, in which Guts Man calls Mega Man to help him move a few Robot Masters into the Robot Museum. 

But wait, I got a special surprise bonus page this time! I was not expecting this, but on top of my purchases, he also gave me the inked version of this Spaz promo piece for Worlds Unite, featuring X and Sticks the Badger from Sonic Boom. Beyond appreciative of receiving it! You can also see there was a little alteration to Sticks’ mouth from the inked page to the final version below:

Slightly less aggressive. XD

Photos from: My Production Art Stash

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A new batch of 6 Archie Mega Man pages, inked by Gary Martin. 

In order: 

Issue 22 p. 14, featuring Ice Man’s thermal vision

Issue 31 p. 5, in which Snake Man is pinned down by Crash Bombs

Issue 31 p. 9, where the Gemini’s get mind controlled by Ra Moon

Issue 32 p. 8, where Rock takes on Ra Thor and the RMs with a ton of special weapons all at one time

Issue 41 p. 9, featuring the defeat of Top Man

And finally Issue 49 p. 6, where Quick Man is told they’ve all been rebuilt and reprogrammed. 

More to add to the “one day I will scan these properly and not just take phone photos because they’re too big for my scanner” pile.

Photos from: My Production Art Stash

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Been quite a while since anything new has been available, but I was able to get a new batch of 7 inked Archie Mega Man pages from Gary Martin last week. 

First up, the neat splash page featuring a couple of conniving mad scientists, Dr. Wily and Dr. Robotnik, which appeared at the end of Issue 51, penciled by Edwin Huang. The hand belongs to Xander Payne, who created the portal they walked through with his electronic eye.  Interestingly enough, on the back of this page was what is listed as a patch for the final page of Issue 37, which was the first chapter in the Dawn of X saga. This one was drawn by Jamal Peppers. Just the top panel of that page, not the part with Mega Man’s helmet broken by the spikey foot of the Wily Walker. Still, as always, so fun to see a bonus hiding on the back of one of these official pages!

Next up is page 3 from Issue 31, the 3rd issue of Blackout: The Curse of Ra Moon. This one is a Mike Cavallaro issue. Rock and Gutsy encounter Needle Man for the first time, before he’s brain hijacked by Ra Moon.

Then from Issue 43, the great Powree issues, it’s page 10, where Magnet Man goes down after a flurry of Shadow Blades pierce him. I gave away the page before this in a contest a long time ago, so happy to get a different Shadow Blade Rock page now.

Moving on to Issue 47, pages 2 and 8, drawn by Ryan Odagawa. This issue had that really different coloring style, so it is kinda refreshing to see the inks for these two. Page 2 features blasting and Hard Knuckling through the Yellow Devil, while Page 8 had Doc Robot blasting Mega Man through a wall, which led to a capsule room where the bodies of the 8 Robot Masters from Mega Man 2, whose robotic brains were all intermingled into Doc Robot, were housed in capsules. But wait a minute, isn’t there something odd with this page, compared to the final...? 

That’s right! In this inked page, Ice Man and Shadow Man were originally in the bottom right capsules! Somebody certainly caught the mistake and added Wood Man and Flash Man in. Although to be honest, the top left head silhoutte looks more like Flash to me. And it also looks like Magnet Man’s legs are the visible left pair, which seems to have made it in the final page as well. So this is actually a really fun thing to look at, to see what was mistakenly originally drawn, and how they tried to fix it in the final. Poor Air, Crash, and Heat kinda got screwed in this setup. XD

Second to last, it’s the first page of Issue 49, by Ryan Jampole. This page is from Quick Man’s perspective as he’s booted back up in his own body, after the whole Doc Robot situation and Mega Man 3 story has ended. Because who doesn’t love Rock’s happy face in Jamps’ style?

And finally, another from Jamps, it’s page 4 of Issue 54. This is one of the great easter egg pages in Wily’s lab, where we get a lot of cameos from things in later Mega Man games that we unfortunately never got in the series, before it was cancelled. I won’t list them all, but some things stand out a little better in this inked page, without the speech bubbles hiding them all.

One day maybe I’ll try to scan and stitch some of these pages together, rather than just always taking photos of them with my phone. It’s a lot harder to scan, due to how large these pages are, compared to the size of my scanner. But it is something I want to do one day, for better quality.

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash

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New batch of inked Archie Mega Man pages from Gary Martin. And for once, I’ve fully scanned them, rather than just posting camera photos. 

Due to the size of them, I have to end up stitching together 4 separate scans for each page, so it’s a little more time consuming. Certainly something I’d like to get around to at some point. Considering how many of these I have now, it will take a while. But as always with me, that’s a project for another eventual day. This is a start, though. 

In this set, we’ve got Ra Thor doing his best Yamcha impression and the birth of Ra Devil in Issue 32 pg. 9, followed up a couple pages later with pg. 12, where Wily explains to Mega Man how to take down Ra Moon. In Issue 44 pg. 18, Spark Man shows some remorse after losing his battle, while in Issue 46 pg. 17, Break Man makes an opening into Wily Castle through the sewers for Mega Man. Issue 47 pg. 10 has a bunch of nice panels of the Doc Robot fight, and finally, Issue 53 pg. 3 focuses on moving some Robot Masters into the Robot Museum. 

Will try to keep a dedicated imgbox gallery for these, too. You can find these scans here: https://imgbox.com/g/5s9roLKhqw

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash

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Spendin’ dolla bills for more Archie pages.

Arriving today, I’ve got the Heat-dousing, Atomic-Fire-Getting, heel turn of Megaman from Issue 10. That panel of Heat in agony, after getting soaked by Bubble Lead, is so great! 

Also finally now have a Hard Man-focused page, from the main Megaman 3 arc, drawn by Powree. Hard was the last MM3 Robot Master I didn’t have a page for. How about a nice Hard-waiian Punch?!

And lastly, another Dawn of X page, featuring not-human-adult-Roll, not-human-adult-Rock, and not-Light/Wily/Wilford Brimley-fused old man running in terror from the Wily Walker/Giant Mechaniloid. 

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash

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Part 2 of my Mega Man 3 Archie-focused purchases: Shadow Man pages!!! I dreamed, I hoped, and I finally got the opportunity, so what do I do? Take all my zenny, I needs these!!

Issue 42 is pretty much my most favorite one, as Shadow and Gemini get the main focus. Albeit short, I loved how Shadow got the Kuiper Droid backstory, that tied into the Stardroids, Trio, and Ra Moon. And while I’ve had a few Gemini pages from this issue, it’s the Shadow parts I’ve been longing for. 

Well, thankfully Gary had a few left, and that included the initial Shadow Man introduction splash, which was like my most wanted page ever from these comics. While I really would love the page with Terra and some of the space flashback, I am more than happy to have page 8, which has that cool darkened ink version of him between Trio and Wily, and an awesome Shadow Blade toss below it. I also got the page 10 with his defeat, and another early Gemini page as Megs gets into a sticky situation after entering the boss gate.

As if that wasn’t enough to satiate my thirst for Shadow pages, I also got a couple from Issue 34, both of which have some wonderful expressions on his face, and a pair from 54, with an awesome battle against Blues, and finally, the Wily “Don’t leave me hangin’” fist bump page!

Once again, I’m beyond grateful Gary Martin gave me the chance to buy them, and he dug through his inventory just looking for Shadow Man pages for me. I’m like, so happy having these right now! 

Photos from: My Art Collection Stash

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Creelevard the frog, and Maxa the Kangaroo. Two hopping swordsman going at it. Creelevard is owned by my good friend Powree http://www.furaffinity.net/user/powree/ and Maxa the kangaroo is mine. Who will win this little tussle?