Starkiller - The Scourge of the Galaxy

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Starkiller - The Scourge of the Galaxy is a comic with various running gags by the authors Heinrich Lenhardt and Boris Schneider as well as the artist Rolf Boyke with the spaceship Poke 14.0 and his on-board computer C65 , Starkiller, Doc Bobo, Witzball, Trantor, the bearded smoker , the tentacle and others.

action

There are several completed storylines. The starting point is always that Starkiller and his crew are out and about in their spaceship and experience various adventures.

At the beginning, Starkiller, who wants to conquer the galaxy , is looking for a crew, as his project does not seem feasible on his own, which his on-board computer C65 confirms. So Starkiller is in the Andromeda issue of power play a classified on: "Rennomierter [sic] villain looking team." The first task of the Department is to provide an antimatter regain joystick which an alien people in a black hole was lost .

In a recent adventure, with a glimpse into the future, it is told that Dr. Bobo invented the ultimate copy protection "Bobolock" 100 years ago and this was licensed by Bill Bates for all Macrosoft products. This ushered in the decline of the " pirate copiers ". The pirates therefore want to change history and send a leased terminator 100 years into the past to ensure that the contract with Makrosoft can never be concluded. In the present, Starkiller and his crew are dealing with a shape-shifting Terminator in the guise of Bill Bates, and to make matters worse, the real Bill Bates has been eaten by a crew member, the tentacle.

There are also several short Starkiller comic strips such as: B .: Someone swapped the light gun of a video game with a "real" laser pistol, which resulted in Starkiller shooting the screen with it, while Doc Bobo was confronted with alien monsters with the toy pistol.

Allusions

The names of the actors, places and objects are allusions to the zeitgeist of the then current cinema films, computer games, game console manufacturers and other circumstances:

  • In relation to the spaceship Poke 14.0 : On the home computer C64 , the address 14 in the zeropage indicates whether the BASIC interpreter is processing an integer or real number: If a floating point number occurs, this memory cell contains $ 00, and an integer $ 80 .
  • The on-board computer C65 is the successor to the C64, which was never ready for series production. (Historical background: Back then it took the computing power of two or three C64 to fly to the moon with the Apollo program .)
  • The would-be villain Starkiller owes his name to a character from the movie Explorers - A Fantastic Adventure .
  • Witzball is a reference to the computer game Wizball .
  • Trantor comes from a character from the game Trantor: The Last Storm Trooper and has a penchant for flamethrowers .
  • The bearded smoker is the former managing director Michael Scharfenberger with his cameo appearances .
  • Tentakel , Starkiller's companion, comes from the computer game Maniac Mansion .
  • Doc Bobo was the pseudonym of Boris Schneider .

publication

This comic series originally appeared in a supplement called Power Play in Happy Computer magazine , first in issue 1/88. Power Play later appeared as an independent magazine.

In March 1993, Starkiller switched to PC Player, which was newly founded by Heinrich Lenhardt and Boris Schneider, and his adventures were continued in episodes 43 to 70, this time completely in color. Some selected episodes could also be found in electronic form on the CD-ROMs of the PC players at the time. Hidden messages, sound effects and enlarged image sections could be activated by clicking on certain areas with the mouse cursor. The last episode of the Starkiller comic series appeared in issue 7/1995 of the PC-Player-Magazin.

In July 2005, the Scriptorium Verlag finally published an 84-page Starkiller paperback book ( ISBN 3-938199-03-2 ) with the first 42 episodes in the original A4 format . This was followed in March 2006, Volume 2 ( ISBN 3-938199-05-9 ) with the color sequences of the PC Player, as well as an anthology with all the sequences from Volume 1 and 2 ( ISBN 3-938199-06-7 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 64-Intern , 7th expanded edition 1988, ISBN 3-89011-000-2 , Data Becker
  2. ↑ Starkiller at Kultpower.de
  3. ↑ [1]

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