History ComicBook / ManTech

* BaldOfAwesome: [=LaserTech=] is a big bald BoisterousBruiser.

* FrickinLaserBeams: [=LaserTech's=] specialty.

''[=ManTech=]'' is a short-lived ScienceFiction ComicBook based on a line of action figures, published by Franchise/ArchieComics in TheEighties.

* BodyHorror: Certainly nothing graphic (this was Franchise/ArchieComics, after all), but this is how [=AquaTech=] sees his current fate as a cyborg.

* CrushKillDestroy: [=NegaTech,=] [=TerrorTech,=] and [=DoomTech.=]

* LotusEaterMachine: In the second issue, the heroes encounter plants whose spores have this effect. [=SolarTech=] dreams he's back home with his wife and child. [=LaserTech=] dreams he's back on Earth before the launch, romancing some ladies in a nightclub. [=AquaTech=] simply dreams he's back at the space center and that he's human again. Of the three, Aqua's is certainly the simplest wish, but he has the hardest time pulling out of it because he wants it so badly.

* LotusEaterMachine: In the second issue, the heroes encounter plants whose spores have this effect. [=LaserTech=] dreams he's back on Earth before the launch, romancing some ladies in a nightclub. [=SolarTech=] dreams he's back home with his wife and child. [=AquaTech=] simply dreams he's back at the space center and that he's human again. Of the three, Aqua's is certainly the simplest wish, but he has the hardest time pulling out of it because he wants it so badly.

* LotusEaterMachine: In the second issue, the heroes encounter plants whose spores have this effect. [=LaserTech=] dreams he's back on Earth before the launch, romancing some ladies in a nightclub. [=SolarTech=] dreams he's back home with his wife and child. [=AquaTech=] simply dreams he's back at the space center, but that he's human again; of the three, his is certainly the simplest wish, but he has the hardest time pulling out of it because he wants it so badly.

* LotusEaterMachine: In the second issue, the heroes encounter plants whose spores have this effect. LaserTech dreams he's back on Earth before the launch, romancing some ladies in a nightclub. SolarTech dreams he's back home with his wife and child. AquaTech simply dreams he's back at the space center, but that he's human again; of the three, his is certainly the simplest wish, but he has the hardest time pulling out of it because he wants it so badly.

%%* AIIsACrapshoot
%%* AfterTheEnd
%%* BaldOfAwesome: [=LaserTech=]

%%* CrushKillDestroy
%%* DeadpanSnarker: [=AquaTech=]

%%* EmergencyTransformation

%%* HollywoodCyborg

%%* HumanPopsicle
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: [=AquaTech=]
%%* MadScientist: Tyranik

* MechaMooks: Tyranik's three goons were named [=NegaTech,=] [=TerrorTech,=] and [=DoomTech.=] The knowledge ray taught him about robotics, not subtlety.
%%* MerchandiseDriven
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

%%* PlanetaryRomance

%%* RobotMaster: Tyranik
%%* RobotWar
%%* ScienceHero
%%* ShortRunners
%%* SleeperStarship
%%* TrappedInAnotherWorld

* AIIsACrapshoot
* AfterTheEnd
* ArchieComics
* BaldOfAwesome: [=LaserTech=]
* BodyHorror: Certainly nothing graphic (this was ArchieComics, after all), but this is how [=AquaTech=] sees his current fate as a cyborg.
* BoisterousBruiser: [=LaserTech=]
* CrushKillDestroy
* DeadpanSnarker: [=AquaTech=]

* EmergencyTransformation

* HollywoodCyborg

* HumanPopsicle
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [=AquaTech=]
* MadScientist: Tyranik
* ManInTheMachine

* MerchandiseDriven
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* PlanetaryRomance

* RobotMaster: Tyranik
* RobotWar
* ScienceHero
* ShortRunners
* SleeperStarship
* TrappedInAnotherWorld

* HomeBase: A SpaceStation.

* TheWoobie: [=AquaTech=]

A short-lived ScienceFiction ComicBook based on a line of action figures, published by ArchieComics in TheEighties.

!!''ComicBook/ManTech'' provides examples of:

Continuing to explore the chamber, he discovers three [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically preserved men]]--alien astronauts from a planet called "Earth." Apparently the ancients had found their SleeperStarship adrift in space, but hadn't seen fit to wake them. Realizing that they've been injured in the years since discovery, he can only revive them by [[EmergencyTransformation turning them into cyborgs.]] So he does, and the men awaken to find that they now look like boxy, semihumanoid robots from the neck down.

The technologically advanced alien planet [[MeaningfulName Mekka]] is finally pulling itself together from a [[AfterTheEnd dark age]] following a RobotWar, long ago. Two scientists, [[StevenUlyssesPerHero Jaxon Goode]] and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tyrannik,]] discover a hidden cache of [[NeglectfulPrecursors advanced equipment]] dating from before the war. They are promptly both struck by a "knowledge ray" which floods their minds with lost technological knowledge. This has the psychological effect of turning Jaxon into a [[{{Transhumanism}} transhumanist]] who believes "machines are the next step in human evolution,'' and Tyrannik into a pro-robot fanatic who believes [[KillAllHumans humans should be surpassed entirely]] and [[RobotWar robots should rule the world.]] The two argue, and Tyrannik leaves, intent on building an army of MechaMooks, while Jaxon ponders how he can stop him.

The ship's laser expert, dubbed [=LaserTech=], loves the idea of being a super-powered cyborg. The oceanographer, christened [=AquaTech=], sees it as pure BodyHorror and [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants his humanity restored.]] TheCaptain, a solar engineer dubbed [=SolarTech=], isn't thrilled, but accepts that it was the only way to save their lives. Jaxon then proceeds to tell them about Tyrannik and his plans to restart the RobotWar which almost destroyed Mekka generations ago. The three [=ManTechs=] agree to help Jaxon stop him.

* MadScientist: Tyrannik
* MechaMooks: Tyrannik's three goons were named [=NegaTech,=] [=TerrorTech,=] and [=DoomTech.=] The knowledge ray taught him about robotics, not subtlety.

* RobotMaster: Tyrannik

* {{Transhumanism}}: Commendable for showing all sides of the issue, with Jaxon and [=LaserTech=] being all for it, [=AquaTech=] being dead set against it, and Tyrannik taking it way too far.

A short-lived ScienceFiction ComicBook based on a line of action figures, published by ArchieComics in TheEighties.

The ship's laser expert, dubbed [=LaserTech=], loves the idea of being a super-powered cyborg. The oceanographer, christened [=Aquatech=], sees it as pure BodyHorror and [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants his humanity restored.]] TheCaptain, a solar engineer dubbed [=SolarTech=], isn't thrilled, but accepts that it was the only way to save their lives. Jaxon then proceeds to tell them about Tyrannik and his plans to restart the RobotWar which almost destroyed Mekka generations ago. The three [=ManTechs=] agree to help Jaxon stop him.

!!''ManTech'' provides examples of: