A while ago my mom was visiting some relatives in America, and as a souvenir she swung by a big old comics place to grab a couple things she thought I might find interesting. I'm not a big US comics person anymore, but her instincts were actually correct--one of them was a Robotech comic, which I didn't even know existed. Not that I've seen much of Robotech, but this was right around when I was first intending to watch the less famous of its source shows, Southern Cross and Mospeada.
Which I did! And then totally forgot about this comic until today when I dug it out and honestly, it's a weird treat seeing this 80s American artist try and translate the Southern Cross character designs. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's a bit janky, but honestly they do much better in the space robot combat stuff than in dialogue scenes. It's also kind of weird that they apparently changed some of the characters' names, but not all of them, seemingly at random? Like it's not like "Jeanne" is much more difficult for an American kid than "Bowie", but they kept the latter and made the former "Dana". Sure.
What's also a little confusing to me is the adverts seem to be saying they were publishing comic adaptations of all three Robotech shows simultaneously? Which must have been kinda hard to follow if you hadn't caught all of the shows. Anyway, neat little bit of anime-adjacent history.
