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Ro-Busters is a comic strip written by Pat Mills and drawn by Dave Gibbons, Mike McMahon and Kevin O'Neill. The series first ran in the British comic Starlord before moving to 2000 AD. The series introduced the de-commissioned war robot Hammerstein and his counterpart Ro-Jaws and is the basis for the popular ABC Warriors and Nemesis series.Set in Britain in the early 21st Century Ro-Busters depicts a world where artificially intelligent robots are so ubiquitous they are treated with contempt by humans and there is a class hierarchy between the robots themselves.
Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein are part of Ro-Busters a Dirty Dozen style team of robots who are sent on perilous rescue missions. Both the principals are hugely courageous but after each successful mission they are usually greeted with indiference by the authorities. When the owner of Ro-Busters decides to destroy the robots in an 'accident' as a tax evasion measure Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein lead an escape plot. Once free they learn that a Robot underground exists and that a safe haven for free robots has been established on the Saturn Moon Titan. The Ro-Busters by this stage are being pursued by a ruthless police unit charged with surpressing robot liberation. Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein lead the group in evading capture and linking up with the Robot underground. A transport is arranged to take the robots to Titan but at the last moment the police close in so Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein with a few volunteers lead a seeming suicide mission to fight off the authorities and buy time for their comrades to escape. The mission is a success and Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein are seen walking off into the sunset.
The series has a high degree of satiric comment on contemporary Britain as Pat Mills had shown on other series. The brutal police squad sent to capture the robots is a parody of the Special Patrol Group while the willful destruction of a productive and loyal workforce reflects the effects of Thatcherism. Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein are a name play for Rodgers and Hammerstein and the story also features a number of song and dance routines.
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