ATOMIC ROBO
Words: Brian Clevinger
Art: Scott Wegener
Colors: Matt Speroni
Letters: Jeff Powell
Red 5 Comics: Paul Ens, Scott Chitwood
This story reminds of me how much I tend to enjoy the Atomic Robo FCBD editions. As far as I can tell, this is a new/original story. Robo and Dr. Dinosaur team up to stop some Time/Space disaster, but the evil doctor has other schemes…which don’t exactly work out according to his plans, leading to everyone truly having to team up in order to save the day.
The writing’s solid, and the art is good. Unlike many, many other comics…this just simply is. It’s Atomic Robo, and for me, that’s all it needs to be. The story and art are what I know of the character, so it’s like simply checking out a random episode of some tv show and NOT finding a new group of actors or something different than I’m used to.
I’ve been reading these Atomic Robo FCBD issues for years now, but unfortunately it has yet to translate to me buying any of the single issues (due to pricing) or any of the collected volumes (again, pricing). But I do think I’m closer than before to biting the bullet and buying a collected volume, even if the price of the entire library of Atomic Robo seems overwhelming at present.
If nothing else, this was a welcome story in a stack of FCBD stuff, and made it to my “initial reads” stack, and this is absolutely a key issue well worth being a specific FCBD comic to seek out.
Rating: 9/10 Continue reading
Filed under: Free Comic Book Day (FCBD), Free Comic Book Day 2012 | Tagged: Atomic Roo, Bonnie Lass, Brian Clevinger, Comic Reviews, FCBD, Free Comic Book Day, Ivan Plascencia, J. Korim, Jeff Powell, Matt Speroni, Michael Mayne, Neozoic, Paul Ens, Red 5, Red 5 Comics, Scott Chitwood, Scott Wegener, Troy Peteri, Tyler Fluharty | Leave a comment »