Timequake



Timequake, created by Jack Adrian and Ian Kennedy ran in Star-Lord throughout its 22 issue run in 1978. The (usually) full colour strip (the black and white panel above is from the 1981 Star-Lord Annual) concerned a group of 'Time Control' agents based in Earth's prehistory but originally founded in the fortieth century, whose job was to police the timelines making sure that time criminals didn't screw up history...or worse yet, that their arch-foes the alien Droon from Rigel didn't use it as a beachhead from which to attack Earth. The members of Time Control were recruited from different points in history, with the main characters in the strip being former steamer captain James Blocker (from 1978, naturally) and shape-shifting Haniken Princess Suzi Cho, as well as their boss, Harl Vinda. Timequake did not initially survive the cancellation of Star-Lord, but it did resurface for a brief run in 2000AD several months later.