Tekno Comics

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:09 pm

Tekno comics. I'm surprised I never hear anything about them on the net. I only have a few issues from them because there early series moved so slow. I couldn't afford to pay that much (at the time) for comics that take 12 issues to get anywhere. But what they had going sounded very intrigueing if you had the patience. It was a nice little sci-fi universe.

One that I highly recommend, no matter what your patience level is, is Teknophage 1-6. The art and coloring is an incredible sight to behold. And the story reels you in right from the beginning and moves at a nice pace. Basically Teknophage is a superintelligent dinosaur who runs a Victorian-style corporation that loots and plunders whole worlds to keep it's empire going. The story involves an average Joe that gets sucked into Phage's world and has to climb through the ranks of Phage's organization to get home. It's a wonderful morality play and corporate analogy. And Phage is just a really wicked bad a$$.

And, yes, from the ads and solicitations I've read of them, I believe Tekno Comics was a universe. Most of Neil Gaiman's creations where related and they had various meetings between the other characters (Phage met the villian from Primortals, ect)

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:29 pm

Mickey Spillane's "Mike Danger" was really good. In my opinion, it was the best book that company put out.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:04 pm

I have seen these books all over the place in the cheaper than cheap bins. The covers looked stellar but when they came out I just could not get into them, probably still cant now. Didnt Leonard Nimoy have a series of these out ?

I know for Malibu Comics, the dude that was called Chekov (I will remember his freakin' name here in a minute... Walter something) had The Raver... laughable IMO but had a cool #1 issue cover. Damn holofoil gets me everytime !!! hhhahha

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:10 pm

Knightt wrote:I have seen these books all over the place in the cheaper than cheap bins. The covers looked stellar but when they came out I just could not get into them, probably still cant now. Didnt Leonard Nimoy have a series of these out ?

Primortals (or something like that). Nimoy come up with an idea to do a comic about what it would really be like for Earth to have it's first encounter with aliens (how would the govenment react, I think there are real protocols in place for stuff like that). Another sci-fi writer (whose name escapes me) fleshed out the concept creating the alien race and then yet another writer wrote the actual comic itself. Like I said, very intrigueing science fiction, it just moved real slow (ofcourse it was the 90's, stretched out stories were very common). I haven't seen these comics in years but I'ld think any Tekno comic would be pulling somewhere between ten cent to a dollar at any retailer that wanted to move them.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:29 am

Isn't this John Taddeo's old company?

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:34 pm

Again, I'd definitely recommend "Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger." It may look like "Mike Hammer In Space" but it's a really good series. If you can pick up the whole run cheap, it's worth it.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:19 pm

Brian Thomer wrote:Isn't this John Taddeo's old company?

Comic news reports describe him as a former "Tekno Comics staffer." The early comics list him as Director of Circulation. The guy who was Tekno's Executive Editor was Ed Polgardy, formerly a high ranking member of Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics.

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:07 am

Ah cool. Thanks for the info.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:24 pm

Knightt wrote:I know for Malibu Comics, the dude that was called Chekov (I will remember his freakin' name here in a minute... Walter something) had The Raver... laughable IMO but had a cool #1 issue cover. Damn holofoil gets me everytime !!! hhhahha

Walter Koenig is his name. And yeah, most of what I read wasn't all that good.

Wasn't one of these comics about a mechanical pugilist? Where was M:RF when we needed him?

-slym

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:22 pm

First stab at a Tekno checklist. I know some of the pre printed 'multi signed' variants are missing...

ANNE MCCAFFREY'S THE UNICORN GIRL: 1
BEACH HIGH: 1
CULTURE CLASH: TEKNOPHAGE VS. ZEERUS: 1
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN:2
GENE RODDENBERRY'S LOST UNIVERSE: 9
GENE RODDENBERRY'S XANDER IN LOST UNIVERSE VOL 1: 9
GENE RODDENBERRY'S XANDER IN LOST UNIVERSE VOL 2: 1
ISAAC ASIMOV'S I-BOTS VOL 1: 8
ISAAC ASIMOV'S I-BOTS VOL 2: 9
JOHN JAKES MULLKON EMPIRE: 6
LEONARD NIMOY'S PRIMORTALS VOL 1: 16
LEONARD NIMOY'S PRIMORTALS VOL 2: 9
LEONARD NIMOY'S PRIMORTALS: ORIGINS: 2
MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE DANGER VOL 1: 11
MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE DANGER VOL 2: 10
MIRRORWORLD: RAIN: 2
NEIL GAIMAN'S LADY JUSTICE VOL 1: 12
NEIL GAIMAN'S LADY JUSTICE VOL 2: 9
NEIL GAIMAN'S MR HERO: THE NEWMATIC MAN VOL 1: 18
NEIL GAIMAN'S MR HERO: THE NEWMATIC MAN VOL 2: 1
NEIL GAIMAN'S PHAGE-SHADOWDEATH: 6
NEIL GAIMAN'S TEKNOPHAGE: 11
NEIL GAIMAN'S WHEEL OF WORLDS: 3
NEURO JACK: 1
TEKNO COMIC HANDBOOK: 1

Regards Earl.

SiBill · Post by **SiBill** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:23 am

They had "Gold " books of the number 1's. They were basically card stock (I believe) with a gold facsimile signature of the creator on the cover. Limited to 2000 I believe. PS - I own the original cover to Teknophage number 1. I forgot I did until I "found" it in my garage recently. I barely remember paying like a 100 to 150 bucks for it - rats!!! It has a another piece of paper stuck on the back - basically a comic sized photocopy with red inks on it and a note to the colorist explaining the red shadow on his right side.

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/b ... 420408%201

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:14 pm

They also put out "Steel" editions.---Steve

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:47 am

A REAL Tekno comics list has been posted here:

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