The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

I first encountered the Micronauts in the back pages of Star Wars Weekly. Star Wars Weekly was a black and white comic which ran from 1977-1...

1978 Toy Story How Toys Become Real I've Never Seen Star Wars Source Criticism Tales From The Galaxy Micronauts #1  Homeworld Micronauts...

I was going to give this series of essays an academic sounding title.  A Case Study In the Reception History Of Star Wars, perhaps.  Defamil...

Tuesday 27 December 1978: Star Wars opens in the UK.  Monday 2nd Jan 1978:  The BBC transmits the first episode of a new TV show. It is abo...

All stories are true.  This is the story which Bill Mantlo tells about the creation of the Micronauts. It's Christmas 1978: Bill Mantlo ...

The Micronauts was an American repackaging of a line of Japanese toys and action figures. It was never a construction system like Lego, but ...

That first poster was strangely static. A bare-chested male hero, holding some kind of shining light or torch above his head; a woman, with ...