The Bug Hunters

The Bug Hunters is a serialised comic created by Jerry Paris and Pedro Henry and published in Computer and Video Games, running from October 1985 until February 1987. It spawned a short spin-off series by Jerry Paris and Garry Leach, also in Computer and Video Games, entitled '''Lieut. Laww''' about the titular character which ran from March 1987 to July 1987. The whole of The Bug Hunters series was published in a collection in 1990, by Trident Comics.

The plot of The Bug Hunters revolves around the darkly humorous adventures of a team of humans and robots responsible for fixing bugs in computer games.

Major Characters

 * Jackson T Kalliberen - An ex-military man and the leader of The Bug Hunters
 * Mellisa Ravenflame - An employee of IDEAS Central, assigned the project of being the Information Controller of The Bug Hunters.
 * OTISS (Overt Technical Information Suburban System) - A robot from IDEAS Development Labs, designed for organising, fast problem analysis and communications.
 * B-Con - A security droid who previously worked at the Isle of Dogs Security penitentiary until it was involved (either through incompetence or corruption) in a break-out, after which it was sold to Garibaldi's Game of God Parlour to work as a spotlight and projectionist.
 * Lieutenant Laww - A four-armed police robot on loan from London Metropolitan police.
 * Big Red (Relocation of Explosives for Demolition) - A giant bomb disposal droid, previously working for a subsidiary of IDEAS before it accidentally destroyed a children's home .  An act it repeated later in the story.
 * Grill - A pyro-tech robot, who previously worked at IDEAS Corp Petro-Chem Division.
 * X - A "Facsim-Droid" who could provide copies of anything. Was working as a Bouncer-Bot at Garibaldi's Game of God Parlour where it met B-Con.