The story is initially set on the planet Nu-Earth, where a war of attrition between two factions, the Norts and Southers, is being fought. This can be seen in the new series The 86ers. He also hints that any return to the Rogue Trooper universe will concentrate on supporting cast and not include the Rogue character. In 2004 Rennie stated that he had intended to revamp the character yet again, but had been blocked by 2000 AD editorial. Artists have included Staz Johnson, Dylan Teague, Mike Collins, Simon Coleby and PJ Holden. In 2002 the original Rogue was reintroduced, again in flashback to his days hunting the traitor general, written by Gordon Rennie. In 1997 a related character, blue-skinned ambulance pilot Tor Cyan was introduced in the story Mercy Heights. The character was rested after White's last story in 1996. His run on the character was the 2000 AD debut of artist Henry Flint. He also reintroduced Venus Bluegenes (Helm's treacherous girlfriend from an earlier story who gained a more prominent role during the Simon Geller run) who had her own short spin-off run. In Fleisher's final story, 'Scavenger of Souls', the bio-chips are reintroduced via an alien 'soul collector'.įleischer was replaced with Steve White, who made the military aspect of the strip more up-to-date and tried to reconcile the two versions of the character.

A new ongoing series featuring Friday followed, written by American writer Michael Fleisher. The bio-chips were dropped, and Gibbons concentrated on the politics and economics of war and the sinister nature of the genetic engineering involved. In 'The War Machine', Gibbons and artist Will Simpson created a different war, set on a different planet, starring a different Genetic Infantryman, this time called Friday. John Smith wrote a 'flashback' story, 'Cinnabar', set in Rogue's deserter days, before original series artist Dave Gibbons returned to write a much more radical revamp of the character. Simon Geller took over, reinventing the character as an intergalactic hitman attempting to end the war by assassinating key figures, but this new direction was dropped in 1989. had his final confrontation with the traitor general and, after a brief further run set on the Planet Horst, Finley-Day ceased writing the strip. This quest continued from 1981 until 1985, when the G.I. Artists to have drawn the character include Brett Ewins, Cam Kennedy and Colin Wilson. Gibbons left the strip early on, to be replaced by a succession of artists and writers who have taken the strip in several different directions over the years.

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