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Garloo Headlines in First Ever Solo

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Oni Press and The Nacelle Company are capping off the first year of the NacelleVerse with a NacelleVerse: The Great Garloo #0. The 40-page comic will set the stage for what is coming next in the NacelleVerse and will guest-star the Biker Mice From Mars, Roboforce, and more. NacelleVerse: The Great Garloo #0 hails from writer Leon Reiser and artist A.J. Jothikumar.

"Since the events of NACELLEVERSE  #0, the orphaned alien Garloo has crossed the cosmos—gearing up with ROBOFORCE, racing alongside the BIKER MICE FROM MARS, witnessing the power of the SECTAURS OF SYMBION, and so many more heroes along the way. Now, on his newly adopted home of Earth, he's found his true purpose and made peace with his destiny as the last remaining survivor of the doomed planet Larlon—or so he thought! When faced with an epic choice between a mundane existence and accepting a new kind of cosmic challenge, will Garloo discover what it takes to be not just good but GREAT?" (Oni Press)

NacelleVerse: The Great Garloo #0 goes on sale on April 30, 2025. The comic features Cover A by Kano, Cover B by Adam Pollina, a 1:100 variant cover by Ramon Bachs, and a blank sketch cover.

(Image via Oni Press - Kano's Cover of NacelleVerse: The Great Garloo #0)

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Nacelleverse #0

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Oni’s NacelleVerse comics will launch in March

‘NacelleVerse’ #0 will kick things off, followed by ‘Roboforce,’ ‘Biker Mice from Mars’ and more.

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NYCC 2023: Nacelle and Oni press partner for a new graphic novel publishing line

NYCC 2023: Nacelle and Oni press partner for a new graphic novel publishing line #comics #comicbooks #nycc #nycc2023 #nycc23

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Lost in the New York Comic Con hustle and bustle including the first trailer for the Scott Pilgrim anime, Good Burger II: Do you want Good Fries with that? (Not the title but I am curious) and an Ultraman Blazar stage show that actually was filled to capacity, there was a little panel for something called the Nacelleverse, a ground up project from the Nacelle company with the goal of bringing numerous disparate franchises together.

And the panel really should have been recorded, because it was a very interesting TED Talk about how a company makes a franchise and how creatives build a shared universe from the ground up.

Seems easy enough, right? Well, the first thing they need to do is get some licenses people care about, or barring that, licenses that are available. And they got…well they got licenses.

There are a lot of moving parts in creating a universe. Finding partners in weird places, like how the Biker Mice from Mars reboot is actually a co-production with Ryan Reynolds of all people, building mythology where there was none and adapting it where there is one, and then finding a buyer for your show. For instance, while Roboforce had no real mythology and the writers built a story from the ground up (a very meta tale about a line of robots that were supposed to be the next big thing, only to be confined to menial work when a newer, superior line of robots completely upstaged their debut, which is essentially what happened to the 80s toy line when it was released opposite the Transformers). Biker Mice, meanwhile, was popular enough that people know what they were about, so in that case it’s more about bringing in the hot dog and (root) beer loving rodents and their story into the shared universe. Same with the Cowboys of Moo Mesa, a real thing that existed and even had an arcade game from Konami of all people (the game was a blatant but surprisingly playable Sunset Riders clone). Then there’s stuff like the Great Garloo, a Creature from the Black Lagoon looking guy with no story to speak of, being given the personality of a wisecracking comedian that happens to resemble the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The panel was 10/10, would recommend to anyone the least bit interested in understanding how a franchise works. But I don’t know if that means the Nacelleverse will be the big franchise that they want it to be.

Unfortunately, while shorts and ads are online, along with the website, I don’t have the one thing that ties this whole thing together. The opening for Roboforce from Cartoon Conrad. As per their discussion, they specifically went with Conrad to make a loud, Western style opening with an opening theme song that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show’s premise.

Knowing the way these things go, by the time Biker Mice comes out and is ready to air, Hasbro will have an Energon Universe cartoon animated by Studio Trigger.

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'The Great Garloo' Rises In Oni Press's New Nacelleverse Special

The Great Garloo is coming to the Nacelleverse in a new one-shot from Oni Press written by Leon Reiser with art by AJ Jothikumar.

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'The Great Garloo' Rises In Oni Press's New Nacelleverse Special

The Great Garloo is coming to the Nacelleverse in a new one-shot from Oni Press written by Leon Reiser with art by AJ Jothikumar.

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Oni Press unleashes Nacelleverse: The Great Garloo with Leon Reiser and A.J. Jothikumar in April

Oni Press unleashes Nacelleverse: The Great Garloo with Leon Reiser and A.J. Jothikumar in April #comics #comicbooks

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About two months ago I covered the panel for the Nacelleverse, the entry of the Nacelle company (The Toys that Made Us) into fictional storytelling with numerous disparate licenses, including such B and C-grade luminaries as the Biker Mice from Mars, the Cow-Boys of Moo Mesa (that was real!) and the Great Garloo, a toy from the 60s that had no storyline to speak of, but was apparently a very big seller in its day.

The first entry into that universe, Roboforce, is due next year, and with it a very, very meta textual story about a brilliant young woman who develops a new series of robots, only for said robots to be completely upstaged by a superior model from a competitor, essentially what happened to Roboforce in the 80s when they went head-to-head with The Transformers.

Anyway, here’s the opening of their big entrance from Cartoon Conrad, featuring as Strong Bad would say, a theme song that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show’s premise.

The next big thing or proof Nacelle should have stuck to documentaries? You make the call.

I do maintain Hasbro has the opportunity to do the funniest thing next year by just straight up animating the Energon Universe with Studio Trigger (who have apparently been wanting to animate a Transformers show for years now) and putting it against Conrad’s Nacelleverse.

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Nacelleverse #0 delivers some nostalgia but falls flat

Nacelleverse #0 delivers some nostalgia but falls flat #comics #comicbooks

When his planet is annihilated by a cosmic disaster, the great alien Garloo must begin a galaxy-spanning search for a new home . . . only to discover a bold new universe of champions waiting amongst the stars! From the genetically modified Sectaur warriors of the planet Symbion to the rabble-rousing Biker Mice from Mars, Garloo’s quest for safe haven will hurdle him on a one-way collision course…

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NacelleVerse #0 by Melissa Flores, Diogenes Neves, Francis Portela, Rahmat Handoka, Rhoald Marcellius and more rides into stores this week.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive with it!

Oni’s NacelleVerse comics will launch in March

‘NacelleVerse’ #0 will kick things off, followed by ‘Roboforce,’ ‘Biker Mice from Mars’ and more.