Category Archives: rare art

Polly want a Force Metal

Rockman X Command Mission‘s concept art section is slightly expanded in R20+5, with the images spread across 2 extra pages. That means room for a few more pieces, plus the ones that were already there are now generally a bit larger and more spread out. Unfortunately, what was added was for the most part already […]

Happy and sad, but mostly glad

Here we are nearing the end of January. How’s 2013 treating you so far? I now have a copy of R20+5. It’s still missing many things I hoped to see within, but there’s more than enough great additions and surprises to more than make up for it. One such unexpected extra: Artwork from the DASH3 […]

Rock Manual The Third

Third time’s the charm.

Rockman Schemata

Blueprints of the blue bomber, laid bare…

The Rock Manual part 2

More manual madness, with Mega Man 2.

Like A Boss

From Family Computer Magazine 1988 #14 (the July 15th issue) comes Rockman 2 Boss Chara Daiboshuu… the very first Rockman boss robot design contest.

The Rock Manual

An anniversary is retrospective by nature. It’s a time of looking back, remembering how things started, and taking note of how far we’ve come. With that in mind, let’s look at what a Rockman game manual looked like 25 years ago.

Rock’s Top Secret Photos Revealed!

Paparazzi, photophiles, and other proponents of peeking at people’s private photographs, rejoice! The Rockman Daizukan has published pictures pertaining to our plucky robot protagonist’s personal portfolio! What intimate secrets does it hold?

Toru Nakayama’s Women of Rockman

Like the Heroes calendar, Capcom’s 2012 Girls Calendar featured its own Rockman panorama, this one by famed Rockman Zero series artist Toru Nakayama. Taking up the highly contended for New Years/Valentine’s Day position, no less! Not quite as comprehensive as the boys’ side. This one has representations from more of the different subgroups of Rockman, […]

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