Karmatrón y los Transformables (Karmatron and the Transformables) is a Mexican science fiction and fantasy comic book created by Oscar González Loyo, and published in 1986 by CEPSA. The weekly series was published only in Mexico, non-stop and during 5 years, from 1986 to 1991 (#298).
The comic is considered one of the first Mexican sci-fi super robot works inspired by "anime" and is notable because of its once-per-week publication schedule, something slightly uncommon, but shared by many other publications (or surpassed as Santo El Enmascarado de Plata was at one point published 3 times per week), at its time of release.
Crossovers
Because of the title's popularity during the eighties, several issues included crossovers with popular characters from other Mexican independent comics of the same period.
Numbers 100 to 104 of the original series -published in 1988- included a crossover called "Karmatrón vs Destrúktor" with several characters from Destrúktor, El Defensor Cósmico (Destruktor, The Cosmic Defender), another popular Mexican science fiction weekly comic from 1987 that lasted 33 issues and was drawn by artist Nicanor Peña Cabrera.
Reception
The comic had a decent reception between Mexican comic book readers, as at the time -the late eighties- the amount of new national titles was close to zero, and even American franchises were scarce at that point, with only Grupo Editorial Vid and Novedades Editores taking on the occasional publishing of American comics.