I loved this comic. Tan the super engineer otter, the gryphon prince who gave his life on board, Havoc the bird. the arboreal monkey guy who could see in ir, Does By About have the first two still for sale and do you have a link to them?

The first one came out a month or so ago, two and three just came out now. I'm told they are carried by amazon or maybe try about comics.com

Amazon has them; I just ordered the set:

http://www.amazon.com/Fusion-The-So...../dp/1936404494
http://www.amazon.com/Fusion-Spring...../dp/1936404524
http://www.amazon.com/Fusion-Devast...../dp/1936404532

Feh. FA wants to add a space in 'affair' in the third URL even when I retype it by hand

Tan, Herrick (RIP), Haven the doctor bird, Eddy the one with the shades, Carz the confused lion, Alshain the feline, and resident humans Dow Cook and Indio Tremaine to be exact.

Engaging ensemble cast.

Haitzo! What about Beolvoch the Meehook feathery theropod person? Haven's wee eggster squirts were neat to see near the end, tu. ^_^ Waitasec...Indio is Haven's adopted daughter, right? Does that mean Haven's two wee fleas are technically her half-siblings?

-2Paw.

Which eventually complicate everyone's relationship to the royal house.

I imagine they would! I know Haven was 'in heat' (I think?) but I assume by the time the proto-nuptials came about (with the Prince's sisters raising protest, broken up by Beo) her mind was a bit more on the clear side. By then, once she knew she had conceived, I suspect it was at least somewhat on her mind. Indio was her only little one (as far as I recall from the comic) before the wee bits were born!

Complications aside, being related to a reasonably powerful royal family might be an asset in and of itself. But complications would be there, of course! ^_^

-2Paw.

Forgot Beo. It's always the biggest critters I forget.

I hope I'm not overly forgettable! o_o Hee, is all gut. Although I liked most of the main characters in Fusion (I didn't flash as much on Herrick, as I came across 'Fusion' after 'The Soulstar Commission' and his death, but he was still ossum in hindsight) I found that Beo was the one who reminded me the most of certain aspects of myself; big huge critter who made a point of staying sensible and not picking fights or looking for trouble. I'm not an engineer, mind; my brainworks might have been good for it, but it's not something my software could handle. Brain having Photoshop instead of AutoCAD. ^_^ But Beo I could empathize the most with, I think. If he didn't have decent food, he tended to nod off, for one thing (recalling 'The Devastator Affair' and Tan 'waking him up'). I can't subscribe to having the instincts and specific body needs of a large modified theropod, but again, what I picked up about Beolvoch reminded me a lot of myself.

-2Paw.

I remeber it with great fondness.

Does volume three end with the story that was in the last printed issue? Or was there a wrap up?


-Badger-

Just all sixteen issues worth.

Looks great. I wonder if this is related to Critters?

Hum- which "critters"? The anthology book by Fantagraphics with Birthright in it? Very much not.

Yeah, I found a whole stack of them at the local comic book shop. That magazine looks so very retro today that I almost expect to hear some synthpop every time I open it.

Ahh, one of the golden oldies, and my favourite furry comic at the time. I think I managed to get all of them, they're in a box here somewhere.

"Morwood"... is that Peter Morwood? I'd forgotten he'd done anything on Fusion, it's been a while since I last dug them out for a re-read.

Yeah that one. One of the shorts, he wrote it, Foglio penciled it and Monica Livingston inked it.

Man, I loved tht comic. Even wrote and laid out a script for Lex about a different crew. "The Treasure Hunters". THe script needed a bit of a rewrite but a case of my nerves killed it. the picturesof Tsurukh in combat arour are thelast vesties of that project,=
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4958577/.

l will say, Fusion was inspiring.

I Was buying these and Critters and Erma Felna as they came out. I was so sad when all of them eventually stopped. It is what inspired me to make Wild Frontier though.

www.wild-frontier.com

I think you bought some books form me at FC when I Was in print in the 90's. We also exchanged snail mail back in the day. :3

I'd love to see Cook's broken translator story filmed.

My hovercraft is full of eels

Aww, no weasel patrol? (Run Away!!)

About Comics has published them as a separate collection

Nice! I haven't seen these in ages. Thank you.

Still one of my favourite comic series.

mine too

Ah, one of the greatest gems that grace my long box. I've got the entire original run. Fusion is fondly remembered as one of the highlights for me of the black and white alternative comics boom of the late 80's. So much more interesting stuff than the four color superhero books, which were armpit deep in X-mania at the time. I won a cloisonne pin of Tan from one of the contests in the letters section.

Thank you for taking part in Fusion's creation, sir.

Well, this brings back the memories. I can still remember the day I first saw a sergal and thought, "Huh, this thing looks familiar," and then never said anything for fear of being eaten.

I still have an issue in my comics box.

I still have and read the first 16 issues. Thanks Steve.

Hummm, well I should mention I guess that I have been looking into trying to buy up the rights to Fusion. Me and an artist friend have been kicking around the idea of trying to produce the book again. It had extreamly good story and artwork, also the chars where rather nice.
Haven is still my fave.

Why buy when you can steal? No, that's not fair, but it does seem to be the more typical process. Trying to restart a property after so long with an all-new team doesn't sound like a good idea- odds are that either it will come off feeling like a lame retread, or go so divergent as to have nothing but name in common with the original. And Lex isn't likely to let it go.

*chuckles* Who said that I was going to use a new team? I allready have at lest one artist that worked on the original onboard with the idea, and I was expecting that you might be interested as well. If only to see Haven back in the limelight!
Just trying to do things right, wich means I need to get the rights, or, at lest, have them go public domain so that I can use them legaly. Not interested in stealing anything, I want to do it the right way.

Oreally? If I seemed dismissive, it's because I hear fans pop off with grandiose schemes all too often. If you are serious, have you talked to Lex? And do you have any thought as to where you might want this to go? The thing was very much Lex's baby and the major story arcs were his ideas. Just as important, do you have a business model for it?

Makes me wish to expose my forearms...!

Thank you, young lady.

No Weasel Patrol? Awwww... I liked them a lot. CHAAAAAAAAARGE!

Glad to see them reprinted though. I'll have to order them.

Are all the cover images also reprinted in these? Because some of those were gorgeous.

I have all the issues, started buying from around 7 or 8 (the first two were difficult to find), but since I also have the Dr Watchstop collection (twice, one hardcover signed found in a small shop for nearly nothing), I should look at these too.

Definitely among the most interesting comics of the 85-95 period.

I've heard about this but never read it.

Still this makes me feel all nostalgic.

Ahh, wonderful!! :D I was worried the other books wouldn't make it :)

And Mr. Steve got top billing! Good to see your name back in print.

Name recognition is likely the major point, except for maybe Foglio, as we are all faded stars to greater or lesser extent. Though my glory-hound side wants it to be known that I really did a lot of the work. Along with laying out and co-inking and most of the tone work on all the stories that I did with Lela, I also adapted Steve Barn's script and wrote all the Lela and I stories. On the other hand, I'll owe up to the awful "First Command" that I shat out in the back of the Spring Rolls collection.

Ah, yes, Mr. Phil Foglio. I wonder what ever happened to him? Oh, yeah; I've got his Girl Genius bookmarked for the M-W-F updates. Between you, me and the lamp post, I think he married the girl genius. I met Phil 25 or 30 years ago, during a book signing at a now-defunct bookstore in a town he'd probably as soon forget.

I've known Phil since the '80s in SF fandom.

Oh goody! A chance to get back into comics when they were good.

Great! I would really like to get another copy of the story where the main human character got to be in the Diplomatic corps briefly, and got dismissed for "Spreading a Viscous Roomer." Oh wait.. That one might have been a spin off in the Weasel Patrol "Stand Alone" comic.

Actually, it was building maintenance that did the spreading- but it was Dow Cook that got the Python Portable. "my hovercraft is full of eels"

Thank you. I couldn't recall Dow Cook's name. I'll keep an eye open at the local comic shops for the new reprints.

Back when books used hand-drawn covers, not photo-shopped pictures! (though I have enjoyed some such books, the covers just aren't as cool looking)

Ey, finestkind! ^^ I think Fusion was and is my favorite anthropomorphic comic of all time. (Or perhaps more accurately, comic with anthropomorpics.) You first caught me with Albedo, but Fusion set the hook with the crew of the Tsunami, the Weasel Patrol, and Doctor Watchstop. I've even got a copy of the old 'Take Off' 'zine somewhere. Great stuff! I was sorry it didn't fly further.

No way, I collect this eclipse comics series.

whelp, another thing I have to get! Since I loved Albedo so much.

Bittersweet memories. Like a lot of other fans at the time, Herrick was my favorite character. Killing off one of your main characters can backfire and mortally cripple a promising story or comic. Just look what happened with Game of Thrones. I still wish someone would bring Herrick back.

I think that "Fusion" was one of the first furry comics which I've ever read, before I even knew what the term meant!