Far away in space, there is a planet full of robots able to change from robot form to vehicle form - the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues - but at what cost?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, Jeffrey Brown re-invents the shape changing robot genre into an occasionally stopping action comedy half-full of romance, drama and epic battles!
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After growing up in Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he completed his studies, he had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously. His first self-published book, Clumsy, appeared seemingly out of nowhere to grab attention from both cartoonists and comics fans. Established as an overly sensitive chronicler of bittersweet adolescent romance and nonsense superhero parody, Brown's current direction remains split between more autobiography examining the minutiae of everyday life and whatever humorous fiction he feels in the mood for. His most popular works include Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU, and Every Girl is the End of the World For Me, comprising the so-called "Girlfriend Trilogy" and its epilogue. More recently his autobiographical work has included Little Things and Funny Misshapen Body. His parody The Incredible Change-Bots, the Ignatz Award winning I am going to be small and humorous cat book Cat Getting Out Of A Bag all stand out amongst his humor work, while his Sulk series continues to take on a variety of subjects with satire. Jeffrey's work has appeared in a host of anthologies from McSweeney's to The Best American Comics, as well as mainstream books like The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror and Marvel's Strange Tales. His original artwork has been exhibited in New York, Paris, and Chicago. Brown has been featured on NPR's This American Life and even created a short animated music video for the band Death Cab For Cutie. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son. Visit jeffreybrowncomics.blogspot.com for news and drawings, and you can write to him at: PO Box 120, Deerfield IL 60015-0120, USA
This is episode 5 of Graphic Novel Gems. In each episode we review a special graphic novel worth picking up. Here we review the hard cover edition of Incredible Change-bots. Be sure to leave some feedback and find us on facebook and youtube for even more reviews!
I bought this, as well as the sequel, at same time. Alas, I was disappointed.
Maybe I was expecting something WAAYYY funnier than this, but to be honest the story was merely OK and really not satisfying. Despite the fact that I own all the Transformers cartoons on DVD, and I'm a fairly big Trans-Fan (and I have an inner 12-year old), I feel like maybe I'm not the target audience for these 2 books.
Think about it... There IS SO MUCH comedy material in the Transformers cartoons, comics, and movies... it's a literal comedy goldmine! But the author seemed to skip 95%, and while telling the mediocre and simplistic story, the few jokes he did make were more of the "smile" variety, not the "ROFL" variety.
I truly wanted to ROFL. I truly did.
I was disappoint.
Maybe I get get a few bucks for them on ebay, or donate to my local library...
