A Complicated Nostalgia: The Robotech Novels

Two years ago, I made a fair deal out of three decades having passed since I happened on Robotech. Sometimes, though, I do wonder if I've mythologized just what I made of that show back then as compared to any other science fiction-flavoured Saturday morning action cartoon I also watched visiting my grandparents, who had cable, or even to the episodes of Transformers and Thunder Sub my family had taped off our own TV and not recorded over soon after. I'm at least conscious of the suggestions of risk in letting personal identies get tangled up with inconsequential popular culture consumed, especially the stuff seen when young and impressionable. There is one bit of hard evidence left from back then, however, in a comic I drew to put together and in some small way preserve the serialized story I was taking in one disconnected bit at a time, even if I have to sum it up as the sort of thing a pre-teen could manage. It didn't wind up my only record, though, and the next part of a line that does trace between then and one of my leisure interests now picked up a bit over two years after my first viewing, which means it took place three decades ago right around now.
( In the leadup to Christmas... )