GM wrote #18-19 (art by Geoff Senior), 30-31 ("Deserts", art by Ron Smith and Geoff Senior)), 36-37 ("Bits and Pieces", art by John Ridgway), 40-46 ("The Black Zoid", art by Steve Yeowell), 47 ("Orientation", art by Steve Yeowell), 48 ("Out Of the Blue", art by Steve Yeowell), 49 ("Blue Moon, Red Dawn", art by Steve Yeowell) and the truly interesting 50 ("Schumacher's Story", art by Phil Gascoine) on which Grant commented in Mark Salisbury's "Writers On Comics Scriptwriting":
“In the case of Zoids, the freaky thing I realised was that even there I was telling essentially the same story as in The Invisibles. I go through the old work to find hints of the future, and I realise I knew stuff that was about to happen, and things occurred because I wrote about them. That became a theme in The Invisibles. […] When they asked me to do a monthly Zoids strip I thought, how can I possibly extend this story? It’s basically big toys fighting each other. Then I thought, so what if they are toys? And I thought, who could control toys on that scale, so the people involved don’t even know it’s toys they’re fighting? I’d been reading a book about the fifth dimension, and I thought that if you lived in the fifth dimension you’d be able to look at the universe from outside of all space and all time. You could move through it to any point in spacetime and your body would be seen as a cross-section of three-dimensional parts. So I thought, I’ll put these cross-section creatures in Zoids. They were actually the toy masters and our universe was the game they were playing. It was just this idea in my head, and then Zoids was cancelled and I forgot all about it.”
The subject of the above-mentioned cancellation was the first issue of a proposed Zoids Monthly which had already been penciled in toto by Steve Yeowell with its first half inked by Dave Hine but it never saw the light of day due to creative differences with Tom DeFalco at MARVEL US. |
