The Spruesworth Saga

The Spruesworth Saga, also known as Spaceman's Quest, is an eleven-part tale of high adventure featuring Spaceman of Futuron and his friends as they battle the forces of High Lord Spruesworth.

Warning! Here there be spoilers!
The story begins with Spaceman crawling from the wreckage of his spaceship after surviving a crash-landing on an uncharted world. In a fit of space madness he shoots his robot with a burner, then stumbles off into the wastes. Eventually he finds a river and attempts to check its safety with his transcoder; however, he gets too close and is attacked by an octoshark lurking beneath the surface. After a quick battle culminating in Spaceman sacrificing his own oxygen tanks to kill the beast, he proceeds farther into the lush forest beyond the river. Falling victim to a sleep-inducing pollen, he wakes up bound, in the presence of several mysterious aliens and his hated rival Hodge LaRoque.

Stripped of his burner but still managing to activate his transcoder, Spaceman quickly befriends the aliens, just before LaRoque returns with his own robot. Acting on Futuron instinct Spaceman hurls one of the diminuitive aliens at LaRoque, but before they touch LaRoque disappears. Spaceman initially believes LaRoque to have been disintegrated, but later learns that he was merely teleported to Earth. Recovering his burner, Spaceman discovers LaRoque's ship, an ultracannon, and the reason why LaRoque is stranded as well.