Atomic Robo Finale!

Tonight, after a long time of not reading together, we read Atomic Robo V1 #6; the end of the first miniseries, and the second part of the Unearthed story, where Robo fought his old enemy Helsingard. The fight was underground, and his friends, the Action Scientist (including Jenkins) where captured.

Robo wasn't doing very good in the fight; all his plans were being thwarted by Helsingard. In the end, Jenkins wasn't actually captured (the other Action Scientists thought one of the machines had eaten him), and he helped Robo defeat Helsingard. Helsingard's brain was in a robot; but it ended up splattering itself against a wall. However, this wasn't the end, as we're shown that in Iceland, Helsingard had other brains and robot bodies ready.

In the short backup story, we see how Robo meets Jenkins. Jenkins is the last survivor from an attack by vampires from the vampire dimension. Robo saves him, and they get out of there, guns blazing. This was a very good comic; both stories, I liked both the writing and the art. My favorite part was when we saw that Hellsingard had a backup plan, and something named "Projekt: Vormachtstellung", which apparently means "Project: Supremacy". That is a bit worrying... but that's a tale for another time... next up in this blog, something from DC Comics... and the next indie book we read will be Doctor Who.

Professor Dinosaur out!

Attack Of The Cyborgs!

After a few days, here are, with indy night. It was the turn for Atomic Robo V1 #5, and Robo went to a castle with a lot of rotting wood doors, an old base for his arch-enemy Helsingard. He found a lot of machines, and in particularly, a room with a lot of tanks with displays that said "AWAKE".

The tanks had cyborgs inside, and they started attacking. His action scientists started fighting the cyborgs, and the most effective weapon was the lightning gun... but then Helsingard showed up, and said it was time for Robo to die.

There was a second, shorter story, in which Robo fought an enemy in a mental battle. Robo's mind was in the shape of a cloudy woman, and he lost his arm... but only in his mind. The cloudy woman mind was very funny.

Good night,
Professor Dinosaur

Mission To Mars!

Indy Night! Atomic Robo Of Mars! In this story, Robo is called by his friend, Carl Sagan, to be the top secret crew of the Viking probe, a mission to Mars. He launches, and he realizes that he only has five magazines to read for a two year trip. Why was this? Because Professor Stephen Hawkings set him a trap, and had everyone believe he could go into hibernation mode.

So, he arrived on Mars, and landed, then started to sing a song about how he could break NASA's equipment if he wanted. While he was on Mars, he wrote "STEPHEN HAWKING IS A BASTARD" on the planet's surface, which was visible from Mars. That was very funny, particularly the way my dad sang the song.

In the second story, Robo fought the ghost of Rasputin, the mad monk. Rasputin was sent to attack Tesla by Edison, who was his rival.

Bye!
Professor Dinosaur

Roll Like An Egypcian!

Indy night means Atomic Robo for now, so we just read Atomic Robo V1 #3. Robo and the Fighting Scientists of Tesladyne had to stop a moving pyramid in the Egypician desert. The pyramid had a solar deathray, and Robo had to stop it without blowing it up.

He got into the pyramid, Robo discovered that it was steam-powered, and also had a water-powered computer that had taken thousands of years to compute a program and wake up the machine. Shooting a focusing crystal out of alignment, Robo made the top part of the pyramid blow up.

There was also a shorter story, about Robo stopping an evil wizard from ascending to godhood on a magical spaceship. My favorite part was when Robo blew up the pyramid.

Good night!
Professor Dinosaur

Flying Tigers, Giant Ants, And Sad Robots.

Tonight was the turn for Atomic Robo V1 #2. In this story, Robo battles some giant ants in Reno, while he remembers one of is old friends. His friend flew with him in the Flying Tigers, a team of pilots from USA that defended China from some evil guys from Japan when the US hadn't entered WWII yet.

He was remembering his friend because he received a letter from Gracie, his friend's granddaughter. His name was Charlie, and he had died from a disease. Robo told Gracie a story about how he once challenged Charlie to a drinking contest, but it was obvious that he couldn't get drunk because he doesn't even have a mouth!

At the end of the story, Robo defeated both problems in both time periods, in Reno and in China. However, he was sad, because his friend died, because while he doesn't age physically, his old friends die. That made me feel a bit bad, the part in which Robo was sad about his friend... and a bit scared of the giant ants.

I thought the story was very good... it's the second Atomic Robo story, and my dad loves Robo's comics, just like he loves the Legion's.

Good night,
Professor Dinosaur

Atomic!

We just read Atomic Robo V1 #1, I though it was awesome. It's about a robot that was created by Tesla. Nikola Tesla is my dad's favorite scientist, and he invented radio, and invented electricity as we use, among many other things. He's called the Father Of The 20th Century!

So, Atomic Robo is sent to arrest Baron Von Helsingard, an evil nazi scientist. The nazis tried to capture Robo but they couldn't, because he's indestructible. Helsingard became like the most invincible human in the world, but Robo was able to defeat him. My favorite part was when the nazis realized the plane that carried Robo to their base was not one of their own supply planes.

Bye!
Professor Dinosaur