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Zombies vs. Robots Complete
It started with a simple idea - mindless robots fighting rabid zombies, over the fate of the last living human baby. Then the war spread, and now it's a three-way rumble as an island of surviving Amazons get tossed into the mix Collecting the entire Zombies vs. Robots and Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons series in one volume - including three prequel tales - this book allows...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
August 29th 2008
by IDW Publishing
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Sep 07, 2008
Andy
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
sci-fi fans who think they've seen it all
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Violent, silly and never boring. I may need to read this another ten times - I'm not stupid, but this book is certifiably insane: a scientist goes through an H.G. Wells time portal wearing the clunkiest robot gear ever designed to discover that the only homo sapiens left on the planet are zombies.
At some point he runs into a gaggle of lesbian amazons who will help him kill off the zombies and a wicked Minotaur flesh eater. He also gets help from all the robots he created in his lab. At a later...more
At some point he runs into a gaggle of lesbian amazons who will help him kill off the zombies and a wicked Minotaur flesh eater. He also gets help from all the robots he created in his lab. At a later...more
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Halftone. Thick sketchy strokes. Broad colour brush paints. Zombies. Robots. Mad scientists.
What do they have in common?
They belong in a crazy world that's created by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood.
This is a large format graphic novel that tells a story of an experiment gone terribly wrong — like it always does in horror stories. The cast and concept are similar to the movie 28 days later, except with robots thrown in. You'll get to see zombies and robots slug it ou...more
A trio of scientists (whose enormous egos keep rubbing the others the wrong way) use their government grant to build a trans-dimensional gateway that leads to the future. They bicker over who should go first. The first guy to go dies; the second guy takes a billion dollar suit and makes it back, unintentionally bringing the zombie virus that's wiped out future humanity. Said virus proceeds to wipe out present humanity. Luckily, one of the scientists is a roboticist and has built a large variety...more
Dec 28, 2010
Mon
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2 of 5 stars
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Zombies Vs Robots, Unicorns Vs Martians, Jack Nicholson Vs A giant pot plant, Edward Cullen Vs Jesus, Buddha Vs Hemingway, George Bush Vs A talking cat. You get two cult icons (Jesus may not be applicable for this one) and make them tear each other's intestines out. ZVR is a 160 pages of epic mind-blowing battle between two equally mindless sides in an apocalyptic setting that is familiar to all.
So how did it go wrong?
Zombies aren't interesting because they don't really do anything other than...more
So how did it go wrong?
Zombies aren't interesting because they don't really do anything other than...more
Zombies vs. Robots is an amazing graphic novel that shows the struggle of robot civilization to help save the last human baby from the overrun world of zombies. Soon an isolated village of Amazon women are thrown into the struggle and brings on a ferocious war. Ashley Wood creates and intense, desperate, and gruesome feel to the story line while also combining humor into the dialogue. The illustrations of this graphic novel are what really make it a masterpiece. From clean and clear, black and w...more
Ashley Wood has stood out for a while now as one of my favorite comic artist, based mostly on his anarchic, surreal Automatic Kafka. Wood wields the same crazy pen and brush in this delicious apocalyptic comic. ZVR tells the story of mankind’s demise at our own hands, a zombie outbreak that leaves the world populated only by the robots we created to help us before we (un)died. Amazons arrive to play a role as well, as do other mythical creatures as the story goes along. It’s crazy and silly and...more
The art of Ashley Wood is not the traditional inked drawings of other comics. Each panel is an individual painting, and this graphic novel is an entire gallery full of them. A couple dozen of them are gorgeous works of art. The trouble is, there is no variation in style and after several hundred, you're burned out on these visuals, appealing though they may be in small quantities. Granted, normal comics rarely have variation in style, but they are also clearer and more suited to storytelling.
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I really enjoyed this collection. It's not Sandman in terms of story telling - there aren't many layers of subtext or interweaving plot lines. What we get is pulp action at its finest. Humans are cleverly used to set the stage and help get the story moving, but once it does there's no mistaking they play second (or even third) string in this cast. The robots (well, one main robot) effectively carry the story, and we get a lot of fun robot v. zombie carnage that actually makes sense and is fun to...more
Starts out as more or less standard zombie stuff - not too dark, maybe heavy on the "irony," but really nothing that stands out too much (I guess this would be the intro stuff, and then the first series?).
The second half, though, gets completely ridiculous, in a much better way - pretty much once the Amazons show up.
Excellent artwork throughout, regardless. Definitely not a classic, but entertaining. Begging for a film adaptation.
The second half, though, gets completely ridiculous, in a much better way - pretty much once the Amazons show up.
Excellent artwork throughout, regardless. Definitely not a classic, but entertaining. Begging for a film adaptation.
Oh, this was nowhere near as good as I wanted it too be. No likeable characters, either made of metal or brain dead zombies, but it sort of tells you that in the title and a barely there storyline. Decidedly average. It's essentially just a showcase for Wood's gorgeous artwork.
Goofball read with jaw-dropping artwork. Not only are there zombies and robots, but zombie amazons, zombie minotaurs, zombie kraken, just about zombie everything. Quick read -- but try to take it slow in order to savor Ashley Woods' illustrations.
Regardless of plot or what you may want from the zombie genre... The artwork in this graphic novel was fantastic. I had to look over the pages again and again. This was more about the art than the story.
Just a quick little read. Nothing to serious or special, just ok. Can't believe I'm saying this but the upcoming movie might be better than the book.
I really love Ash's art style and the characterization of the robots is great. I liked World War Robot better though.
Dec 15, 2008
Logan
marked it as to-read
I'm sorry but they had me at zombies versus robots. I'm a slave to my base instincts.
what a nice book. zombies, robots, amazons. what the heck more do you want. - I mean it.
Recommended by the lurvely Ofmatt.
You'd think that I'd love this book, basted on its title alone, but I didn't. While I loved the artwork, I found the narrative difficult to follow and the story unfulfilling. I'd love to have some of the splash panels as posters and I'll Zombies vs. Robots on my coffee table to enjoy them, but I won't be rereading this one soon.
I really enjoyed the complete Zombies vs. Robots graphic novel. Though a little disjointed at times, the storyline was pretty interesting and the illustrations were absolutely fantastic. Ashley Wood provided a great abstract look into a post-apocolyptic world.
This is the type of story that dreamed about as a kid. Zombies fighting Robots fighting Amazon women... great. Mr. Ryall uses a lot of humor with his horror/sci-fi genre mash up. Ashley Woods' art is nothing short of spectacular. This if one of my favorite tpb's ever. Lots of surprises.
Delightfully retarded look at the never-ending conflict between Zombies, Robots, and Amazons. Ashley Wood's art is amazing on every page.
Apr 29, 2013
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