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 Guess what Earth's threatened by in this one. Go on.
This one was torn apart long ago by Matt Marshall, so I won't just nick his ideas. Instead I'll note that this is a rare Western outing for Crasher's white Rothmans colour scheme, complete with toy-accurate face. Though now I look at it she does look a lot like Spoiler. Well, it's still toy-accurate, just maybe not the right toy. This is also the most Dumper (well, dumper Gobot) gets to do in anything.
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - Collision Course Comet at Rapidshare
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - Collision Course Comet at MirrorUpload
 Yes, another stunning adventure starring those Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots. This one features Cy-Kill trying to rig some sort of robot space hockey game in order to inconvenience Matt, and with a prominent role for Scooter is basically the same as an episode of the cartoon. Some fine research from a young Alan Moore.
Though there is "the ambulance Gobot" and a bizarre cameo appearance by the much-bootlegged Kronoform transforming watch to savour in Dave Gibbons' artwork.
Enjoy! Well, I say enjoy...
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - Champions of Lixil at Rapidshare
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - Champions of Lixil at MirrorUpload
 The second nerve-jangling Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots Mini World book, The Weeds of Calcheron.
The writer for the books wasn't credited (another World Distributors trademark), but all the signs point to them actually being the work of Neil Gaiman, who was actually a junior staff writer at World during this period. So now you know.
Anyway, "The Weeds of Calcheron" sees Cy-Kill and Braxis attack the Command Centre (a sizable city-type base in World's crazed universe) with some - oh yes - killer weeds, now ripe for comparison to penises and/or rape-hungry tentacles in the brave new satirical world of 21st century internet comedians. LOLocaust.
Dozer not only gets on the cover, but gets a name and a line of dialogue. Against this, a non-speaking Leader-1 appears in the text, but the pictures show Royal-T instead. Chortle. Also, keep an eye out for the bit where artist Bryan Hitch blatantly draws Geeper-Creeper when one of the ASC's jeeps is swamped by the penistacles.
It's another classic read.
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - The Weeds of Calcheron at Rapidshare
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - The Weeds of Calcheron at MirrorUpload (NB: MirrorUpload links won't be maintained; when they're gone, they're gone)
 More from my scanner plate - this time the first of four EXCITING Gobot stories! You lucky, lucky people.
Or are they Gobots stories? The series of four books is certainly very strange (and I'm not just talking about the awesomely clumsy Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots branding). They were published by infamous cash-in merchants World Distributors, via their Mini World imprint (presumably to avoid it getting confused with the books they put out for adults, like the Blake's 7 and Return of the Saint annuals) and they're very odd indeed.
World had a bit of a reputation for doing things as cheaply and as quickly as humanly possible. In this case they've done basically no research into the cartoon these were more-or-less based on, hence the Gobots are split into two factions - the evil Renegades led by Cy-Kill and... the ASC, who consist of Matt, A.J. (aged to adulthood and now Caucasian) and a few possibly sentient Gobots. They also tend not to bother finding out the names of most of the Gobots. The Wagner Sirens is the best (well, least god-awful) of the books. It features Matt, A.J., Doctor Braxis, Cy-Kill, a non-speaking Turbo, a speaking jeep (Geeper-Creeper) and a truck/lorry (Road Ranger, who gets on the cover but isn't named).
I cannot stress enough how bad these books are.
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - The Wagner Sirens at Rapidshare
- Robo Machine featuring Challenge of the Gobots - The Wagner Sirens at MirrorUpload (NB: the mirrored links won't be maintained, once they're gone they're gone).
 Johnny Arab is kidnapping various top British boffins to work on an A-bomb, and only the Steel Claw (currently working for top black ops bods the Shadow Squad) can stop them. 120-ish pages of nerve-jangling excitement.
"An exciting Steel Claw story!", it says here. Personally I've always found the Claw to be a little whitebread compared to the pomp and insanity of the Spider, but it's still not bad. I've had the scans for this one floating around for ages, but have only just got around to tidying up the last handful of pages (I've even included the somewhat dated quiz - do you know what shape a Chinaman's eyes are?) in between overhauling the site's extant content. As the original pages of these Super Library comics don't really stand being blown up to full resolution, the scans are paired, so you need to read down the left side, then go across to the top of the right. I'm sure you'll pick it up.
- Stupendous Series #13 - City Beneath the Sand
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