ABC Warriors
ABC Warriors is a long running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills. The ABC Warriors themselves were a team of seven robots that had fought in the Volgan War (which had featured from the first issue in Invasion!, whose lead character was the human Bill Savage).
One of the characters, Hammerstein, was already well known through the story Ro-Busters (which had come to 2000 AD via the comic Starlord). The foundation of the robotic warriors of the Volgan War had been introduced in the Ro-Busters strip in the form of Hammerstein's recollection of his part. Hammerstein is the only ABC Warrior to appear in film, making a cameo appearance in the Judge Dredd movie.
After the end of the war, the robots were brought together to tame Mars, which had become a futuristic wild west. In further adventures set much later in time, the warriors teamed up with Nemesis the Warlock in his fight against the Termight Empire and to prevent a destabilised Black Hole bypass at the Earth's core destroying the world.
The 'ABC' part of their name stands for Atomic, Biological, Chemical, forms of warfare deadly to humans which they were designed to withstand.
Some of the most famous artists working in British comics have illustrated The ABC Warriors, including Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Brett Ewins, Brendan McCarthy, Carlos Ezquerra, Dave Gibbons, Simon Bisley, Kev Walker and Henry Flint, among others.
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