Quarter Bin Heroes: Pyramid Comics / Ruck Bud and His Screeching Commandos
Pyramid Productions Publisher based in South Bend, Indiana. 1986-1987 15 issues Titles included the anthologies Barbaric Tales, Dark Visions, and Omnicron:Astonishing Adventures of Other Worlds, the latter of which boasts a cover job by Kevin Nowlan. Future Marvel Comics editor Mark Pannicia provides scripts and script assists on many titles, as well as turning out a promising Dave Stevens-inspired cover for Omnicron’s second issue. Not to be outdone, series illustrator Don Bryan roughly channels Mark Schulz for his book The Adventures of Theown (3 issues). Both artists go so far as to craft signatures which resemble Stevens’ and Schulz’, respectively, which you have to admire. Gary T.Washington (A Boy and His ‘Bot, NOW Comics, 1986) creates sci-fi adventure series Cyberhawks (2 issues). A planned five-issue series, Damlog, was a brutal science-fiction title which debuted in Barbaric Tales and, unfortunately, taps out after a single issue and a bomb-as-hell cover that ought to be on bl...