Combatron

(It's Nostalgia time...)

Whilst trying to sleep (unsuccessfully) last night due to my sister's incessant and equally idiotic ramblings. I all of a sudden happened to think about megaman/rockman which in turn made me think about a local comic series I read a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away...

"COMBATRON"

The main hero there is somewhat based on the classic blue megaman hence the connection between my musings. I distinctinctly remember the start of it happening ala Green Lantern. We have an injured and near-death alien robotic life form who crashed in Earth who in turn is being chased by his evil alien robotic arch-nemesis named Alkhenato or something like that. An innocent Earthling finds this alien and before dying, the alien bestows upon the unsuspecting kid his uber-combat suit and names him the new "Combatron", defender of the known universe. Just in time because an evil henchman lands and begins wrecking havoc.

Oh, did I mention that along with the combat suit comes a robotic man's best friend named "Rush", oops... I meant "Askal". This Askal can also turn into a jet board, submarine, drill tank the same as Rush of Megaman fame.

In due course, the combat suit gets upgraded a few times. Surprises abound with cool new weapons being discovered here and there. Combatron also happens to revive some old friends of the original Combatron in the course of the story. One is the Yo-yo wielding warrior, Axel. Another is the the robotic she-warrior, Metallica. I also distinctly remember them having a sort of headquarters ala Metroplex of Transformers fame that can be also used as a spaceship.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to remember anything more about their arch-enemies aside from that Alkh...whatever has a purple combat suit with matching Darth Vader-esque helmet.

I distinctly remember enjoying this series. I even actually collected the comic covers and the comic pages themselves but I can't seem to remember where I stored them. I think I might have thrown them away some time ago. I also remember being disappointed when the series ended abruptly. Ah well... all good things come to end.

(End of Nostalgia time...)