Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Paperback)

~ Frank Miller (Author), Geof Darrow (Illustrator)

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Product Description

Award-winning, TV-bound Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot sees long-awaited second printing!

Now a network television animated series, this is the original graphic novel that started it all! Engineered by the award-winning creative team of writer Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) and artist Geof Darrow (Hard Boiled), Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is everything you remember about being eight years old and watching movies of giant monsters on the rampage, but with all the magnified detail that you always wanted to see. Miller's buoyant script and Darrow's amazingly intricate artwork grab you by the scruff of your neck and throw you headfirst into the fray! And the deluxe, oversized format makes the dazzling graphics seem even bigger than a movie screen!

About the Author

Frank Miller is among the world's most popular comics creators. His work on the original series Sin City has garnered numerous awards, including two Harvey awards for Best Graphic Album of Original Work (1998) and Best Continuing Series (1996), and the series has earned Miller six Eisner Awards, including those for Best Writer/Artist, Best Graphic Novel Reprint, Best Cartoonist, Best Cover Artist, Best Limited Series, and Best Short Story. Similarly, books in his Martha Washington series have won Eisners for Best Finite Series, Best Coloring, and Best Penciller/Inker

Together, Miller and Darrow have earned two Eisner Awards. In 1990, they were recognized as Best Writer-Artist team for the sci-fi crime graphic novel Hard Boiled, and in 1996, Darrow earned the award for Best Penciller/Inker for Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics; 1 edition (June 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569712018
• ISBN-13: 978-1569712016
• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #495,296 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strictly For Artists Who Appreciate Excellent Rendering!, June 22, 2000

By	Goh Aik Sai (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot (King Size B&W) (Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot) (Paperback)

This book is the black and white and 'dialogue-less' version of a similar comic title released by Darkhorse which is in colour and contains dialogue. If these elements are important to you, you may want to purchase the original version. Having said that, it is interesting that the narrative runs very smoothly even without the dialogue as the Big Guy and Rusty stories are very simple 'Rescue the World from Monsters' narratives.

The reason some may want to purchase this is to drool over the very detailed inking artwork done by the artists which is lost in the smaller version and obscured by the dialogue balloons. Personally I prefer this 'King-size' version as it allows me to examine in superb detail, the careful, intricate and excellent illustrations.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your grandmother's Miller, November 27, 2002

By	bhangonoveloctresidom (SF, CA) - See all my reviews

The first thing you'll notice is Geoff Darrow's knotty tight sublime hyper-etched artwork, lines running like veins into the architecture and broken glass that is Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. This is not the Miller of Sin City or DK Returns et cetera,,,,watch him rip away the Chandler influence and dive into Japanese toy culture via Godzilla gggrraaaaaauu. This won't give you a typical Milleresque vision, whatever that means, but it's a cool trip through a world owned by toys and monsters. Great book for kids. Bedtime story and such.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this one, July 6, 2009

By	Michele Lee "~Michele Lee~" (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

In a modern (for the 90s) Tokyo, scientists, foolish with power, successfully recreate primordial ooze, only to discover it's the perfect host body for an evil, Cthulhu-like (in mindset and motive at least) creature who breaks free and follows the trend of giant monsters rampaging on Tokyo. What's worse, citizens discover after they've thrown everything at it from missiles and tanks to helicopters and super (prototype) boy robots, the creature isn't just out to destroy humanity, it can infect them, turning them into mutant dinosaur creatures that can further spread the disease, destruction and chaos. In a last ditch effort commanders beg for help from the good old U.S.A. and from the sea comes the Iron-Giant-ish hero, The Big Guy.

All American, a true blue hero, the Big Guy is determined to defeat the evil creature, save the innocents mutated into monsters and uphold decency standards all the while. The prose is a bit pretentious at times, and a bit old fashioned other times, but both reinforce the character of the Big Guy and heroic feel of the tale.

The only bad thing to say is that this two part series went nowhere as a comic, introducing dynamic characters but going no further, and, while the Fox Kids TV show (a mere 26 episodes) was a hilarious, spot on blend of tongue-in-cheek jabs at mechs, robotechnology, speculations on the future, Godzilla-inspired disasters and superhero comics, reading this book is a reminder that the Big Guy and Rusty still hasn't seen DVD release. Oh well, there's Youtube.