I finally get to do my disco Rogue!

Starting in September, Rogue Trooper returns, with me on script duties and Paul Nile - you might have seen his small-press comic 'Wart' at Hi-Ex - on art, and frankly amazing art too! This is going to be the most zarjaz character reboot since Strontium Dog came back - we've got total carte blanche from Tharg, and we're going to use it!

Obviously I can't talk about every aspect of this (I don't have time, I'm in an internet cafe) but I figured I could reveal a couple of things, like what we're doing with the biochip buddies. No more Helm, Bagman and Gunnar, and no Eightball, Lucky and Top either - we're going in a totally new direction, because frankly everybody's sick of the kind of boring 'future war' nonsense Rogue's been doing for eons.

The new Rogue is going to be the last member of a dojo of ronins based on the strange world of Nu-Japan, where the air is so charged with magical 'Mana' that breathing it transforms you into a killer mutant. The biochips no longer plug into his equipment - they now plug directly into his limbs to give him added martial arts power! There are four 'bio-chip buddies', one for each limb, and I can promise that you won't miss Gunnar or Helm when you're enjoying the astonishing character interaction between Lefty, Righto, Southpaw and Knuckles, all of whom have a different take on Rogue's obligations to his Sensei, Major Magnum-San, which can lead to trouble when, say, the different legs disagree about which way to go on the path to revenge on the Traitor Samurai General, whose master plot to deal Heroin X to the clone children of the South-Ninja Dojo School is what leads to the massacre that leaves Rogue as the last of the Genetic Ronins.

I can tell you're alreadty breathless with anticipation. Also, instead of 'Stak!' we're going to have 'Stuk!' which rhymes with 'fuck', so it's easier for readers to do the substitution in their heads.

Anyway, I'll have some character designs for you later from Paul, who's going in a pretty interesting direction with Rogue's hair. Bet you can't wait!

EDIT: April Fool!

Some people actually believed this, astonishingly.