James Kochalka's Magic Boy & Robot Elf [Paperback]

James Kochalka (Author, Artist)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Top Shelf Productions (March 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891830333
• ISBN-13: 978-1891830334
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,401,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars It's a kind of magic, January 10, 2011

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This review is from: James Kochalka's Magic Boy & Robot Elf (Paperback)

Magic Boy is nostalgic for his youth so for some reason he builds a robot elf. The robot elf goes back in time, kills the young Magic Boy, and takes his place. Magic Boy in the present watches all of this through some TV. He decides to kill himself but an alien spacecraft shows up, he shoots the alien, jumps into the spacecraft and goes into space. Then he regresses into his youth through some space magic, until he becomes an embryo.

Yeah, weird. James Kochalka's first published comic book is kind of all over the place ideas wise and Kochalka's freewheeling plotting is kind of funny. Practicality and logic will not get in the way of the story Kochalka wants to tell. It's interesting in places but overall it's not that great a comic book as it's strangely dull despite the fantastical elements throughout. New readers to James Kochalka should check out American Elf and Fantastic Butterflys for better books by this brilliant artist.