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Atomic Robo Volume 1: Atomic Robo & the Fightin Scientists of Tesladyne TP (v. 1)

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What a concept, Atomic Robo, built by Tesla in the 1920s, battles Nazis, mummies, giant insects and the ghost of Rasputin.

The humor and action never lets up in this book. Clevinger manages to use the last 100 years of science fiction but without it ever feeling forced or like a parody. Wegener manages to make Atomic Robo a very sympathetic and empathic character, despite his lack of a face.

Lots of fun, highly recommended.

Atomic Robo is a great pulp story. It's strongly reminiscent of Hellboy in a good way, if you replaced a chunk of the mysticism with mad science and the gruff and likable Hellboy with the more snarky and equally likable Atomic Robo.

There will be rockets, there will be a giant ant beaten with a street sign, there will be Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkings making an appearance (the latter in a brief but awesome antagonistic role). The art and writing are solid start to finish.

I highly recommend this product.

Wisecracking robot fights everything from an evil Nazi brain-in-a-jar to giant ants. Cameos by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Snappy dialogue, fun bite-sized stories, clean visual storytelling. You can show it to kids without giving them nightmares about women getting chopped up and stuffed into refrigerators. What more could you ask for? Highly recommended. Buy it, enjoy it.

Something new on the superhero scene, Atomic Robo definitely delivers. Great art, great story, and full of action and humor. I'm glad that this finally came out in a trade, as the individual comics were tough to find.

This is one of the more impressive starts to a long running story in comics. The events are presented as short, one shot stories, with obvious potential for long-term plans that really come together in the later books. Thus you get rollicking, light-hearted hijinks with a darker, more substantial undercurrent that builds up subtly. Neither over nor under written or produced, with top notch art and writing! Some of the stories seemed a little insubstantial, or I'd give it 5 stars, but overall a VERY solid foundation!

Atomic Robo is the most fun I've had reading comics in... well, forever. Remember when comics were just plain fun? Remember when you could read a single issue of a comic and it made sense? Clevinger and Wegener do, and they deliver it for you in every issue of Atomic Robo. This collection of the first Atomic Robo series jumps around in Robo's life. It kind of gives the effect of listening to your grandfather tell stories about his life - if he was an 80 year old wisecracking robot who had a life of unlimited adventure. The stories are just as much fun the fourth time as they are the first. If you ever enjoyed comics, or think you could enjoy comics, read Atomic Robo. All comics should be this much fun.

Whimsy and unmitigated robot violence will always sway me, and if you add clever writing into the mix, then I'm so damn swayed even champion limbo dancers are all become awe-struck. Writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener haven't created the cure for the common cold. No, even better, they created Atomic Robo, a sentient robot who wears pants and investigates (re: smashes) all things paranormal and supervillainy and vile. He's a bit like Hellboy, a bit like Tom Strong. ATOMIC ROBO Vol. 1: ATOMIC ROBO & THE FIGHTIN' SCIENTISTS OF TESLADYNE collects the first mini-series.

Created by Nikola Tesla in 192-, Robo is more than 80 years old and looks somewhat like Iron Giant. Robo initially balked at working for the U.S. government, but then he was promised full American Citizenship and the legal standing of a human being, and so, somewhen in the late 1930s, off he went to tangle for the first time with his great arch-nemesis, the mad Nazi scientist Baron Heinrich Von Helsingard. Robo would eventually establish Tesladyne, a think tank of two-fisted scientists tasked with poking into all things odd and scientificky. In this first volume, we're made privy to his wild globetrotting exploits, current and past. And, no, Brian Clevinger isn't shy about inserting them flashback episodes. They do help to fill in the blanks concerning Robo's long, long history of applying violent science in service of world peace. Still, there is a bit of a disjointed feel. These stories jump about quite a bit in continuity. But that's Clevinger's bliss: world-building in the format of short story arcs.

Whimsy, whimsy, and the occasional robotic mayhem and a great sense of pulp adventure. Crack open these pages if you find intrigue in clockwork mummies, giant ants, and ambulatory (and death ray-equipped) pyramids that begin stalking the Egyptian landscape. In this reality, Thomas Edison is a heinous villain and Robo has a running feud with a prankish Stephen Hawking. In this world, Carl Sagan has somehow coaxed Robo into a two year solo mission to Mars. Clevinger rapidly makes Atomic Robo into an endearing character and I can't help but think it's partly due to his consistently coming up with fantastic lines such as: "Automobiles have been the best melee weapons to use against giant monsters sine the 50's. It's a science fact." Yes, Brian Clevinger, this is a science fact. For I have looked it up and found that it is so.

What a concept, Atomic Robo, built by Tesla in the 1920s, battles Nazis, mummies, giant insects and the ghost of Rasputin.

Gave to a young relative as a birthday present. He loves it. He is very into science fiction, and robots.

And I really mean it. I laughed out loud many times throughout the book due to nerd references that I enjoyed. I was able to just enjoy it. I didn't have to think too much and it is very Hellboy-ish. If you need a break from your heavier reading it is a pleasant mix of science and mythology. Enjoy yourself.