Panel two: "At ease, soldiers."

This issue and issue 8 tend to be the most common that I have seen at comic shops. Just picked up another issue 8 at a second hand store on Saturday.

Issue 8 was the most printed issue, maybe 16 K, though the exact number is iffy, as there was a lot of wastage due to bad handling at the bindery that messed up a lot of covers. It was also the peak of the black&white boom to bust, as perhaps as many as half of what was initially ordered ever got shipped or paid for. Stores and small distributors were dropping like flies and even those that remained were cash-short for new orders. Bad times.

this is the issue that i first saw in 1984 when I moved from Olympia to Oregon. for me, this started the formally Furry mindset.
THis is what I wanted in comics. This is what I liked. and now? there is a Zootopia movie that pretty much is what is portrayed here in a non military setting.
And of course, Deal Witley's High Orbit was both smart and funny at the same time. his joke of a space traffic controller guiding a pilot into a docking bay (who is also her husband) was pretty funny. I could see it happening.
just one one of the things in my memories hoard...

i had no idea the first two issues were really that rare, or i guess, i hadn't really thought about it that much at the time.

Issue one was done in two blocks, 500 and 1500, issue two was 2000. With the exception of three with 10K and eight with 16K, none of the other issues were over 6 to 8K, the last few were back down to something closer to 2K.

That would explain why is so difficult to find older issues of Albedo overseas. For the record, the only issues I bought here in Mexico were the ones from the second arc (except the second one, the last one published by Antarctic Press) and the first one of the "Old Erma" distant finale, while the remaining ones I bought them later via Ebay from the U.S.

As far I know, I only know one people here in Mexico besides me who also collects the comics and he is also a furry comic book artist as well. I also aware some issues were for sale in France and Spain, and there's even a small news article about Albedo in Spanish from a Spaniard news site.

I used to put out a music fanzine in the 80s. The learning curve we all went through back then was incredible, from photocopiers to offset printing, from trudging around record shops setting up sale-or-return deals to actual distribution. It was real bootstraps stuff.

I was about to...
There's a pound of ham in the...
The money's under the...

was issue #0 just a convention thing ?

A test the waters kind of thing. For cons and as hand-outs at various times. Initial runs were in the hundreds, did a final multi-K run.

The lady does command attention!

Panel #2: This needle-drag moment brought to you by: petty politics.

That was the first issue I bought, I had missed out on the first two issues, I saw the green cover with a critter in front of a tactical screen, picked up the book, and the first panel of the first page had me hooked! I got every issue after that, and two of the three versions of the Albedo rpg.

She looks like a Moff

Fleet always has nicer uniforms than infantry.

Three months and her presence still turns heads? You'd think they'd be used to her by now. ... Or is three months the time it took to get here?

She is new to here, but it took three months to get the 50 Cyr to get here.