This was more fun than a comic should legally be allowed.
The setup here is straightforward. In 1923, Tesla created Atomic Robo. Ever since, Robo has been battling the bad guys - Nazi super-scientists, giant ants, other robots and cyborgs - and even helping out NASA by getting the Viking explorer down to Mars (where we learn, Robo doesn't have a fondness for Stephen Hawking.) Then there were those incidents with Edison summoning the ghost of Rasputin to assassinate Tesla and Jack Parsons' rocket.
While this has echoes of Hellboy, I think it stands on its own. Certainly, if you enjoy Hellboy, I see no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this one. Robo is a great, fun character - nearly indestructible with Spider-Man's fondness for quipping. One blurb quote stated he was Iron Man with Indiana Jones inside the suit. Robo is somewhere in the middle of all those comparisons.
I'll be buying the rest of the available volumes, for certain. And most likely checking out some of other titles from Red 5 Comics.
You've sold me, I'll track 'em down.
ReplyDeleteCool, always looking for another good graphic read.
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