''M. Rex'' (short for ''Machina Rex'') is a comic book title published by Image Comics' subsidiary Avalon. It began in 1999 and only ran for two issues, but inspired the animated series ''

Generator Rex ''Generator Rex'' is an American animated science fiction television series created by Man of Action for Cartoon Network, with John Fang of Cartoon Network Studios serving as supervising director. It was inspired by the comic '' M. Rex'', publish ...

''.

Background

Avalon Studios was formed in 1999 by Filipino comic book writer

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and American colorist Brian Haberlin. ''M. Rex'' was one of the studio's first titles. It was by Aaron Sowd, Joe Kelly and

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. It ran for two issues, ''The Actress, the Agent and the Apprentice'' and ''Size Matters''.

Characters

Three of the central characters were adapted into ''Generator Rex'': * Agent Six (he wields paired swords) *

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(called "White Knight") (he wields paired pistols) * Rex (called Rex Salazar)Rex
/ref> (his pair of arms can turn into many different types of weapons) Three others were not: *Mia Moore *Simon Babbage *Spilken

References

1999 comics debuts 1999 comics endings Comics adapted into animated series Comics adapted into television series Avalon Studios Defunct American comics Generator Rex Image Comics titles {{Image-comics-stub