On Saturday, March 17, 2010, Carl Macek died of a heart attack. Most people know and remember him as the man that brought the US anime through the creation of Robotech. But to me, he will always be the co-owner of a small comic shop in Orange, California called 21st Century Comics. I think I may have met him once, but I almost never spoke to him. I was far too shy. It was in the early 80’s, about my freshman year in high school. My older brother came home with this video tape that he’d bought. It was in one of those black cases like video rental stores used for their VHS tapes, with what I think was a golden rod-colored xerox for a cover. It was Macross, Carl Macek and Harmony Gold’s first attempt at bringing Macross over to the US. That opening that is ridiculed in Bad English dubs that starts “Soldiers of Future from deep space…”? Yeah, that where it came from. My brother had bought it at Macek’s comic shop. It was a small shop at that time, on the north end of Orange Circle, I believe. The Orange Circle is a two way street…