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ATOMIC ROBO 4. ATOMIC ROBO Y OTRAS RAREZAS (2000)

by Brian Clevinger(Favorite Author)

4.45 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Norma Editorial

series

Atomic Robo

review 1: I love the quirky humor of Atomic Robo, and that has never been better displayed than in the story about why Robo and Dr. Dinosaur hate each other. The story is beautiful, with an indestructible robot and a crafty dinosaur shooting guns and lobbing grenades at each other while Robo pokes holes in his opponent's ridiculous origin story. Robo brings up the scientific impossibilities of time travel and the lack of a fossil record supporting the bad guy's claim to be from the distant past, and the evil genius gives answers that made me laugh out loud more than once (I especially like the explanation for the blue light in the anti-gravity device - beautiful in both words and images).The other stories in the collection are (mostly) disconnected single-issue stories about vampire... mores and ghosts and Godzilla/anime-style hijinks, and they're OK, but they lack the cohesion of earlier Robo collections. I recommend that a reader start by flipping to the Dr. Dinosaur story - if it doesn't make you laugh, the book won't get better from there, and you can look for something else, but if you find it as funny as I do, then you'll think the rest of the book is just fine, and you won't mind reading it again in context.
review 2: Silly, bizarre, laugh out loud funny. And frigging smart - granted I'm way far away from my undergrad degree in science, but this Clevinger writes like he actually gets the difference between an ohm and a muon.I got it - this is a comics equivalent of The Big Bang Theory! I gotta hand it to the boy - if he can keep up this level of clever, zany, funny then he has a very long career ahead of him (assuming he can afford to slum in comics writing for long).Doctor Dinosaur was my stand-out favourite among some great stories here. This is so ridiculously fun, and written so smart - each character is entirely believable as their own person, but the combination creates an interaction that reminds me of an Abbott & Costello routine...with advanced university degrees. WHY AREN'T ALL COMICS THIS MUCH FUN? The ghost in the last story holds the richest potential for the future of this book tho. less

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