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Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880

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Battlestar Galactica, una de las space operas más importantes de la historia de la televisión, ya tiene su adaptación al cómic... ¡y se trata de una versión totalmente innovadora de este universo! Las fuerzas unidas del guionista Tony Lee y la ilustradora Aneke toman los diseños de personaje de Sergio Dávila y convierten el universo de la Estrella de Combate que se enfrenta a los malvados cylones en una fantasía steampunk repleta de robots a vapor, piratas del espacio y combates a muerte.

112 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2015

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Tony Lee

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A New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist, Tony Lee was born in West London, UK in 1970. Informed by a teacher that he had a comic book style of writing, (a comment meant more as an insult), Tony decided that one day he would write for comics.

Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.

Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.

Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.

He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.

Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.

His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.

Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.

Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.

Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.

Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.

Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.

from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk

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Profile Image for Jacqueline.
487 reviews18 followers
June 4, 2016
This is a wonderfully fun graphic novel. Based on the late 1970s/early 1980s version of the television series Battlestar Galactica but given an awesome Steampunk twist - it's a joy from start to finish. The only negative is the book is too short.
The characters from Battlestar Galactica are slightly changed to fit with the Victorian/Steampunk design - Adama is an Archduke, Apollo is the crown prince. Athena really kicks ass - going practically on her own to find and rescue her brother (Apollo) when he disappears in battle and is presumed dead.
Starbuck, back to being a guy as he was in the original series, has been banished - and is a free trader, aided by his half-daggit (half-human) partner, Muffit. He's in trouble with two pirate queens - Cassiopeia and Sheba. Athena approaches him to help rescue Apollo.
Meanwhile, Baltar has destroyed Caprica with his Cyclonic automatons, then launches an attack on Gemini. Adama takes the Aethership Galactica to protect the remnants of Caprica's population, and joins Commander Cain of the Aethership Pegasus to defend Gemini - only to discover it's a trap, the Pegasus has been destroyed, as has Gemini.
However, Starbuck, and Athena discover Apollo, on a prison planet as well as Jolly and Boomer, now cybernetic after Baltar's surgeries to save their lives. They also discover Iblis - who with Athena and Baltar created the Babbage Machine Lui-c-fer that controls the Cyclonics. Since Jolly and Boomer can plug in and control the giant automaton Cyclonics, and Ibilis and Athena designed the Babbage machine - they decide to take the fight to Baltar.
Meanwhile, on the Galactica, Adama is thrilled to learn his son is alive, and even welcomes Starbuck, Jolly, and Boomer back (after they were exiled by the Quorum of Twelve). Adama agrees with the plan to take the fight to Baltar.
The battle actually goes well, even though Ibilis betrays them by uploading himself to Lu-c-fer. Athena - who had designed the Babbage machine - hacks it to melt down the machine and destroy Ibilis, the Cyclonics and Baltar. She also approaches the Oviod, an insectoid species and the Colonials former enemy, and forms an alliance with them to take out the Cyclonics.
This is a highly enjoyable graphic novel, suitable pretty much for all ages. The Steampunk aesthetic and costumes are great. Tony Lee's take on the classic characters is more in fitting with those characters than Ron Moore's recent television remake.
The art is good, but at times very, very busy - with panels that almost seem crowded. But, on the other hand, the ship designs and the costumes are really, really good. I'd love to see another volume of this story, or to see it made into an animated film. Highly recommended.
Profile Image for John Stinebaugh.
284 reviews8 followers
January 3, 2017
Steampunk seems to barely apply here. Still a fun comic read though.
Profile Image for Quentin Wallace.
Author 34 books179 followers
August 30, 2019
I enjoyed this one, although it wasn't quite what I was expecting. This would have been a good story even without the steampunk aspect, which was more of a novelty. At its heart this was a very cool "Elseworlds" type BSG story. I think this is more for BSG fans rather than steampunk fans as I feel that element was more in the background, but a good read either way.
Profile Image for Tomás Sendarrubias García.
901 reviews20 followers
May 2, 2024
Hace unos días, dando una vuelta por el Krunch! Festival, un festival sobre el mundo del cómic que se organiza en Alcalá de Henares anualmente, me encontré con este pequeño tomo publicado por Yermo Ediciones, y la verdad es que cualquier cosa en la que ponga Battlestar Galactica... pues como que voy a ir detrás siempre.

En este caso, Tony Lee y la ilustradora Aneke, nos traen un reimaginación de la historia clásica de Galáctica Estrella de Combate, la serie de finales de los 70 o principios de los 80, que terminaría dando paso a la mejor serie de la historia, con el mismo nombre, Battlestar Galactica, ya en los primeros años del siglo XXI. Y recupera esta historia clásica, pero con un entorno steampunk, con Eternaves, piratas, espadas y sombreros de tres picos, una historia en la que los Caballeros Cylónicos, dirigidos por el Doctor Baltar, lanzan un destructivo ataque contra uno de los mundos principales del Quorum, Cáprica, lo que va a llevar al enfrentamiento entre los cylónicos de Baltar (dirigidos por una computadora de tarjetas llamada Babbage Luc-C-Fer) y los defensores de la humanidad, encabezados por el Archiduque Adama, su hijo Apolo y su hija Athena, y otros personajes clásicos como Tigh, Starbuck o Boomer... y por supuesto, de la Eternave Galactica.

Una historia cortita (son cuatro números), entretenida sin mucho más, en general bien ilustrada, y que no va a cambiarle la vida a nadie, pero va a permitir que pasemos un buen rato.
Profile Image for Matthew Kresal.
Author 36 books51 followers
February 16, 2021
Of all the things you could do a steampunk twist on, Battlestar Galactica would not have been near the top of my list. Even so, it's not surprising that someone has done it! Namely, writer Tony Lee, perhaps best known for his work on the IDW Doctor Who comic range, with Ardian Syaf and Aneke on the illustrations, crosses the aesthetics of steampunk with the original 1970s TV series of Galactica. All of which means this is a campy, high-flying, retro-adventure piece which, frankly, has its pluses and minuses. On the plus side, it's a readable and fine-looking piece of work. The bad news is that the opening issue is clunky as hell in setting everything up, and the overall story feels pretty lightweight, if not predictable. And because the mix of steampunk and BSG elements is an uneasy mix, it's one that likely will never entirely please fans of either.

But, if you can set all that aside, it's a fun romp of a tale with some fantastic artwork.
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601 reviews9 followers
March 22, 2024
When I first saw that Dynamite Comics was going to publish a Steampunk version of Battlestar Galactica, I must admit, I had my reservations. Although Steampunk is considered a niche of the Science Fiction genre, I never could see how the two fit together. This book is a good example of why. There are no real steampunk elements in this book. Instead, a sort of Elseworlds/Victorian aspect with advanced technology holds forth. It's an interesting concept but it is not fully realized in this story. The story is an origin story that draws characters from the original 1970s Battlestar series that without the campy fun or alternate world that made that series so good. The Victorian element is a fun diversion but does not factor in and it seems there were a lot of backstories in this book that were never explored. This was a fun read and a brave attempt at reimagining an iconic series, but in the end, it was nothing special.
Profile Image for Jeff Mayo.
1,750 reviews7 followers
March 8, 2025
This was okay for 117 pages. Not great. Average artwork. The dialogue was bullshit. How many times do you need to mention the crown prince as "The Crown Prince"? People don't talk like that. And then on page 117, with the line, "Never tell me the odds!" it was a clear ripoff of Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back. This was a 2 star affair until that point, and then it earned that single star.
Profile Image for Shawn.
626 reviews31 followers
February 17, 2023
10/10 for nostalgia of the old BSG. Nice art, but the story seemed to lean to having on the nostalgia trap. Very little in the way of meat to the story. If the comic had been handed to someone who hasn't watched the original BSG, they likely would have been somewhere between confused and bored.
Profile Image for Rob.
426 reviews6 followers
August 2, 2018
Truly awful. Nothing really steampunk about this at all, it was basically Battlestar with various different names for things, the whole concept of 1880 was completely lost.
22 reviews
April 14, 2025
Tons of campy fun! Really short, though. Could’ve used another issue or two to expand on a couple things. Which is weird cuz on the back of my copy it says it’s 6 issues, but there are only 4?
Profile Image for Hugh.
Author 22 books32 followers
January 5, 2026
Loved the graphics, story was ok.
Profile Image for Fantifica.
158 reviews269 followers
November 15, 2015
Reseña de Lorenzo Martínez · Nota: 6 · Reseña en Fantífica

Hablar de Battlestar Galactica es hablar de una de las series de ciencia ficción más populares de la televisión, lo que vuelve casi obligado que terminara dando el salto a otros medios como el cómic. Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880, publicado hace unas pocas semanas por Yermo en español, es uno de esos cómics que homenajean a la serie original de 1978.

El cómic escrito por Tony Lee y dibujado por Aneke está exclusivamente dirigido a los fans de Battlestar Galactica, principalmente porque recurre a los temas de siempre para presentar una idea alternativa: la del steampunk en el universo de ciencia ficción de la serie. Ahí está la estrella de combate Galactica, los delirios destructivos del conde Baltar, el ataque a las Doce Colonias de Kobol y los robots cylon, sin olvidar personajes como el comandante Adama, Apollo y el capitán Starbuck, entre otros. Solo que todos los diseños procedentes de culturas antiguas como la egipcia en la serie original se han pasado bajo la óptica del steampunk, por lo que veremos acabados en madera y trajes militares propios del siglo XIX, cylons que parecen armaduras mecanizadas, espadas y demás parafernalia propia de la época victoriana, aunque por supuesto sin dejar de lado las pistolas láser, los ordenadores y las naves espaciales que surcan el espacio.

Cuando afirmo que el cómic está exclusivamente dirigido a los fans de la serie, no se trata solo de una opinión, sino de una constatación de la idea de la editorial americana Dynamite Entertainment. Para cualquiera que no tenga un conocimiento básico de la serie, Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 tendrá un interés nulo, y solo quienes conozcan Battlestar Galactica sabrán sacar algo de provecho al cómic, que sin ser una maravilla se deja leer. El tema steampunk está bien insertado, pero en mi opinión le falta algo más de chicha. Sin embargo, hay que reconocer el mérito al guionista por hacer que la serie sea reconocible a pesar del cambio de imagen. El argumento, por su parte, es demasiado precipitado: condensa una historia de conquistas, traiciones y heroicidades en cuatro números, por lo que la prisa por terminar está presente a lo largo de todo el volumen y no da tiempo a desarrollar bien los personajes y las tramas secundarias.

En cuanto a las cualidades pictóricas del experimento, se trata de un cómic sin nada destacable en el apartado gráfico, con un diseño de personajes que cumple y poco más, por no decir que ni el dibujante ni el colorista están en su mejor momento (en particular el primero, por su anticuado y plano diseño de situaciones espaciales). Habría sido preferible que Sergio Dávila hubiera sido el encargado de los lápices —curiosamente, es el diseñador de los personajes—, además de ocuparse de la portada del volumen.

También hay que resaltar el tremendo parecido del cómic con Star Wars, motivo por el cual 20th Century Fox puso una querella a Universal (quien a su vez contraatacó con el enorme parecido que guarda la saga galáctica con las aventuras de Buck Rogers). Por ello, no es raro encontrar en Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 personajes muy parecidos a la Princesa Leia, al capitán Solo y su inseparable colega Chewbacca, por citar solo algunos ejemplos. El parecido con Star Wars es evidente, por lo que en general nos queda la impresión de que Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 es como un pastiche experimental solo apto para fans de la serie, ni más ni menos.
Profile Image for John Shaw.
1,226 reviews13 followers
March 5, 2017
The original Battlestar Galactica
re envisioned through
the steampunk tinted lenses of
of an absinthe and laudanum fueled fever dream.
Tony Lee shows his love of both Battlestar Galactica and steampunk
with this wonderful series.
Profile Image for Kris.
1,363 reviews
January 31, 2016
A very strange concoction. Takes the barest bones of BSG and puts it into something completely different, a cross between A New Hope and a Steampunk convention. Not recommended
Profile Image for Simon.
1,043 reviews9 followers
December 22, 2016
A reimagination of Battlestar Galactica that brings back Boxey.

Nuff said
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