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My only gaming-related purchase at this month's Ypsilanti #FleaMarket is a 1983 Michigan-made #comicbook featuring contributions by two #TTRPG artist/designers -- inking by #VillainsAndVigilantes' Jeff Dee and coloring by #HeroesUnlimited's Kevin Siembieda.
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Additionally, the comic's villains are The Mechanoids, the eponymous antagonists of Siembieda's 1981 #TTRPG, The Mechanoid Invasion.
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This "Cobalt Blue" #comicbook is actually a flipbook with "Justice Machine" issue 5 on the other side. In 1985, Siembieda wrote a Justice Machine supplement for #HeroesUnlimited.

The connections between #PalladiumBooks and Noble Comics are a forgotten footnote in #TTRPG history that only locals like me remember.

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@contrarian @PulpTickertape My group played Heroes Unlimited, and one GM used Justice Machine, but I'd never seen the comic. I know we looted a bunch of weapons & gadgets from them, then went back to our normal setting.

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@mdhughes @PulpTickertape I was basically the opposite. I bought that supplement because I liked the Justice Machine comics, but never got a chance to play #HeroesUnlimited . (I enjoyed the #RobotechRPG and #BeyondTheSupernatural, though.)