Issue(s): Micronauts: The New Voyages #5
Cover Date: Feb 85
Title: "Death, sleep and the traveler!"
Credits:
Peter Gillis - Writer
Kelley Jones - Penciler
Pat Redding - Inker
Bob Harras - Assistant Editor
Ralph Macchio - Editor

Review/plot:
The Micronauts are still on the weapons system planet from the previous arc. It turns out to be a lot more populated than originally thought, and the creatures living there have some weird ideas about body identity. Based on the arrival of the new group, many of the planet's denizens have changed their bodies around to mimic one or more of the group's features. It's a strange, interesting idea.

The Micronauts are able to check on the state of their robots this issue, but what they find isn't too promising, and a damaged Biotron actually attacks Marionette. Arcturus Rann coldly shoots him down.

Meanwhile Bug is apparently feeling sorry for himself. I guess at some point during Mantlo's run, Bug and Marionette were an item, but now that Rann is back in the picture he's been forgotten. He winds up deciding to abandon the group to hang out with his new girfriend, who has a cloned version of Marionette's body but in a more appealing color.

There's also some more talk about the Makers. It seems the strange spiral galaxy that the Micronauts come from is considered an area of some significance by the creatures here.

There's a lot to like here, but a little too much melodrama and the Maker mystery so far isn't really all that intriguing (unless the Makers turn out to be the Mego Corporation or something). Cool concepts and weirdness, though.

It's a bit of a slow build, i guess, and doesn't have the immediate impact of, say, Peter Gillis' Defenders.

Quality Rating: B-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A