Resurrecting a Lost Epic

When Palm Springs Entertainment studios burned to the ground in 1984, the most definitive motion picture of a generation was lost before its time. Decades later, Tommy Lee Edwards, Noah Smith, Dan McDaid and Nick Demetris Nicola unite to resurrect this lost epic.

Comic Book Synopsis:

The year is 1984. Washed-up mechanic Chuck Carducci is contacted by an old roommate from his MIT days to team up on a new project using cutting-edge artificial intelligence. With salvaged electronics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, high-performance van parts, and a plutonium-ion battery dubiously procured by a mysterious financial backer, Chuck builds a robot so human, yet so powerful, it can only be called VANDROID! Chuck puts everything he ever wished he was into Vandroid, and the robot now has a chance to fulfill his creator’s lost potential.

Vandroid soon finds his place in the world by turning against the militarized corporate baddies who helped finance his creation. While stacking up dead enemy bodies and uncovering a ridiculous conspiracy, the robot rekindles the fire of Chuck’s broken marriage, builds a squad of lethal companions called the Vanettes, and teams up with Chuck’s best childhood friend to rain down plenty of fiery vengeance.

Get the VANDROID comic book from:

darkhorse.com

Also available from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk

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“It’s one of the most fun reads of the year.  It will appeal to the 1980s action flick fan in everyone.” – borg.com

“You can’t help but love the big, explosive excess of it all. This is an 80s movie I wouldn’t mind seeing get a sequel.” – Comic Book Therapy

“Vandroid was a bitchin’ ride of high-tech, floppy disk grandeur, and made me harken back to such films as The Running Man, Terminator and a little bit of Mad Max.” – Forces of Geek

“This is damn good, unfettered fun in comic book form, and I’m glad as hell I saw it through to its neon-grid-framed end.”  –  Comic Bastards

“I’m glad Dark Horse took the time to put this out. If you’re like me and missed the mini-series and have a love of fast-paced sci-fi action you’ll want to pick this one up.” – What’cha Reading

“Vandroid is a great series that you should be reading.” – Unleash The Fanboy

“If you enjoyed the low-rent science fiction and action movies of the 1980′s with tough guys, big guns, and bigger hair, then you will love not only this book but the whole Vandroid experience…the book (and the project as a whole) doesn’t feel at all like mockery or satire but instead like a detailed, entertaining homage to a genre and a time gone by.” – Panel Patter

“We’re in vintage ’80s territory, where Greed creates monsters, enlists vulnerable creative egos to chase its sunk costs, and the result is destruction that can end only with Greed’s redemption or an awe-inspiring display of superior firepower.” – Comics Bulletin

“Vandroid has the charm and courage to swing for the fences, drawing on the familiar and evoking grainy oversaturated action movies of the 80’s without feeling like a hollow shell made of papier mache’d Terminator posters.” – Deadshirt

“The great thing about the humor in Vandroid is that despite poking fun at the signifiers of the decade…the creative team’s genuine affection for 1980s pop culture shows through in the work.” – The Comixverse

“Vandroid perfectly captures the fearful wonderment I’d feel as a kid when I’d walk down an aisle of the video store and stare at lurid VHS covers for movies my dad would never let me rent.” – Death-Ray Ozone

“Artist Dan McDaid really set the style for Vandroid. If you didn't know any better, you'd think that you had picked up this comic from a yard sale somewhere, like some lost treasure from thirty years ago. Just take a look at the title character with his long, wavy hair, bitchin' sunglasses, sporty vest, and a giant back tattoo of a centaur. What more do you need really? Co-writer Tommy Lee Edwards delivered some amazing covers for Vandroid that would be at home next to VHS copies of cheesy and forgotten movies of years gone by. Each one perfectly sets the tone for the book. They let you know what you're getting into. If you see one of these covers and you're not instantly interested in what this book is about, then I'm not sure we can be friends anymore.” - Horror DNA

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