Rog-2000

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Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Rog-2000 (pronounced "Rahj-two-thousand", and sometimes spelled "ROG 2000") is a fictional robot that was the first professional creation of comic book artist-writer John Byrne. Rog-2000 serves as the mascot of Byrne Robotics.[1]

Publication history

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Detail from Rog-2000's first appearance, CPL #11 (1974).

The character began life during Byrne's fan-artist days in the 1970s, as a spot illustration for Roger Stern and Bob Layton's fanzine CPL (Contemporary Pictorial Literature).[2] Layton gave the character a name (riffing on the amount of "Rogers" – specifically Roger Stern and Roger Slifer – who contributed to CPL), and he and Stern began using him as a magazine mascot, with Byrne supplying additional art.[2] A Rog-2000 story, "The Coming of the Gang", appeared in CPL #11 (1974), written by Stern with art by Byrne and Layton, and featuring caricatures of "the CPL Gang", including Byrne and fellow CPL contributor Duffy Vohland.[3]

On the strength of that fan piece, Charlton Comics writer Nicola Cuti contacted Byrne about drawing the character for professional comic books.[4] During this same period, the CPL Gang was producing the officially sanctioned fanzine Charlton Bullseye.[5] Written by Cuti, "Rog-2000" became one of several alternating backup features in the Charlton Comics superhero series E-Man, starting with the eight-page "That Was No Lady" in issue #6 (Jan. 1975).[6] This marked the color-comics debut of future industry star Byrne,[7] who'd previously drawn a two-page story for Skywald Publications' black-and-white horror-comics magazine Nightmare #20 (Aug. 1974). The character also appeared the same month in the small-press hobbyist magazine The Comic Reader #44 (Jan. 1975).

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Three additional, seven-page "Rog-2000" stories – "Withering Heights", "The Wish", and "Rog. vs. The Sog", all by Cuti & Byrne – appeared in E-Man #7, 9–10 (March, July–Sept. 1975), respectively. All the Charlton stories were reprinted in Pacific Comics' ROG 2000 #1 (June 1982), as well as in A-Plus Comics' Hot 'N Cold Heroes #1 (1990) and Herbie #4-4 (1991).[6]

In a 2000 interview, Byrne recalled that:

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We talked about a Rog book, and I even came up with a full-length story idea, a sequel to the sewer-monster story that was, if memory serves, the last published Rog story at Charlton. I think I even laid out a cover. But Charlton was not interested, and Marvel was beckoning rather relentlessly at that point. I'm not sure anymore who owns Rog. I had a handshake from [Charlton managing editor] George Wildman to the effect that Rog would always be mine, but we all know what Samuel Goldwyn said about verbal agreements! In any case, it has been so long since I did anything with Rog, I would not be at all surprised if the copyright has lapsed.[2]

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Stern was reunited with Rog-2000 when Charlton accepted two of his scripts for the feature, but the company then canceled E-Man the following workday.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ Though the character's chest plate reads "ROG 2000", the name is generally spelled at Byrne's website, Byrne Robotics, with an uppercase "R" and lowercase "og" along with a hyphen.
  2. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Roger Stern (w), John Byrne (p), Bob Layton (i). The Coming of the Gang, no. Script error: No such module "String"., p. 23-28 (Script error: No such module "Auto date formatter".). Indianapolis, Indiana: CPL/Gang Publications.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Archived from the original on November 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ The Charlton Bullseye (CPL/GANG Publications, 1975) at the Grand Comics Database.
  6. ↑ a b Rog 2000 and Rog-2000 at the Grand Comics Database
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