From 1UP: Mega Man’s Comic Career & The Social Retrospective

Finishing off this week’s 1UP Cover Story, “Mega Man: 25 Years of Theme-Park Levels and Stolen Robot Powers,” is a two-story main event for the weekend.

First up is Jeremy Parish’s “Mega Man: The Social Retrospective,” which is described as “a randomly irreverent trip through the history of Capcom’s robot hero.” This collects the many posts made over the past month in celebration of the Blue Bomber’s 25th anniversary on 1UP’s Tumblr account, with lots of fun tidbits and images.

The other story is one we’ve alluded to throughout the week, “Mega Man’s Comic Career: The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre.” Here, Nadia Oxford and I look back at the past and the present, the good and the bad, and overall some of the most noteworthy instances of Mega Man in print. It’s by no means a thorough list, but rather provides some of the high and lowlights of his career.

Special thanks go out to Ian Flynn and the Archie Comics crew, UDON Entertainment, and Dr. Neko for my part, while Nadia would like to extend thanks to The Mechanical Maniacs and Rodrigo Shin for hers.

And that’s it for 1UP’s Mega Man Cover Story this week; we hope you’ve enjoyed it!

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