Robohunter: Classic or Dud?

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Back to 2000AD. Robohunter was the story featuring Sam Slade, a hunter of robots who'd gone rogue. Basically it was a private detective story set in a stupid future where everything was robotic, and was meant to be funny. He had two sidekicks - Hoagy, the stupidest robot in the world, & Stogie, a Cuban cigar robot.

Written by Alan Grant (?), drawn by Ian Gibson.

i missed the early story where he goes to a planet that's been taken over by robots, and only saw a bit of the God-Droid story. So for me classic Robohunter is when he gets sent to Brit Cit. The story was dull when it started, but with the whole National Song Year storyline it reached such levels of surreality that you couldn't but love it (basically in an effort to cheer up everyone the Government brought in a rule that people had to sing songs all the time, leading to complicated musical numbers. In a comic). The World Cup story was great if you love racist stereotypes.

― DV, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so, classic, basically.

― DV, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, the Brit Cit story started shortly after I started reading 2000Ad (Prog 290) and it included a Maggie-Thatcher lookalike droid called Iron Aggie. There was a sub-plot involving the Home Secretary, Sir Osawld Modroid, who was secretly in charge of a group of humans called the Human League who went round destroying robots. Also, Sam Slade was dead against the National Song Year idea and Stogie and Hoagy kept criticizing him for being such a killjoy.

In other stories.... What were those dinky little droids that ent around killing everyone? They went "beep beep beep" repeatedly and were controlled by a guy in New York called Harlem Grits.

Also classic: storyline from the 2000AD annual 1983 where Hoagy goes to solve a case on his own where someone claims he'd locked himself out of his house and his guard dog droid wouldn't let him back in.

― MarkH, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there was the dodgy after-life story where he dies then gets to go back and switch off his life-support machine. seem to recall there was a cover with his tombstone where the age and dates didn't match because of all this shenanigans

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The little droids were the Teeny Meks. They were very cute. And deadly.

There was some storyline where Hoagy became hyperintelligent and started calling Sam "Samuel" all the time. I liked that.

― DV, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked the big fat baby "body double" best. And the way that Sam Slade had to "burp" him by punching him very hard in the stomach. Space Family Ogden, wasn't it??

― Trevor, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah... and the way the Baby (obvious prototype for Roger Rabbit baby) was such a scumbag that he insisted the girl character on Space Family Ogden got a case of space boils, to stop her getting so much fanmail.

― DV, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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