RoboCop (comics) Detroit which slowly keep leading back to OCP. There is also an ED-209 unit on a rampage which RoboCop must put a stop to. It takes place right after "RoboCop: Prime Suspect". Two mini-stories were also published in the series "Dark Horse Comics". A RoboCop versus Predator comic was proposed for Dark Horse. Some of the proposal pages by Joshua Boulet can be seen at the RoboCop Archive website. Almost a decade later, the comic rights to "RoboCop" were acquired by Avatar Press. Upon announcing the acquisition, the company's publisher, William Christensen, received several offers from artists and writers hoping
RoboCop from the film by following one of the earlier drafts of the screenplay. It expanded on Murphy's struggle with being part man and part machine, and his memories. It also included more "humanized" dialogue from RoboCop, as opposed to the minimal, cold dialogue heard in the film. The success of the movie spawned a large franchise, including merchandise, two sequels, , a remake, two animated TV series, a television , video games, and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. In January 2018, it was announced that original "RoboCop" writer Ed Neumeier was writing a direct sequel to the 1987 film