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Zombies vs Robots Aventure #1-4
Zombies vs Robots Adventure
Zombies vs Robots is back, retooled, and rarin' to go! Chris Ryall scripts, Ashley Wood provides the cover, and a cadre of new artists tackle three "Kampf," with art by Menton Matthews III, "Masques" by Paul McCaffrey, and "Zuvembies" by Gabriel Hernandez.
104 pages, Paperback
First published August 15, 2010
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October 13, 2014
Zombies? Robots? I love them both and the idea of humans employing robots to battle the hordes of zombies is wonderful...so, why doesn't this book work? I'm going to have to go with plain old bad writing. Three different stories, each employing a different artist, all based on the same theme, yet none of them rise above mediocre.
The first tale features unusual artwork that looks more like paintings than traditional comic book illustration. So far, so good. We meet a one-eyed army commander who looks like he stepped right off a WWII battlefield. He leaves his nagging wife to lead a team of robots and elite fighters, including a guy with cyborg hands and a woman whose only superpower seems to be her massive, nearly entirely exposed bosom. (I can't remember her name - I called her "Major Boobage.") The gist of this story is that robots have a tendency to shoot the crap out of everything in sight, including humans, exposed cleavage and valuable supporting structures like ceiling joists. Oops! I got quite a few chuckles out of this story, though I'm sure that's not the response the author was anticipating.
Story number two was almost enjoyable. An adorable flock of robots is looking for a leader and a brainless hick discovers you can kill a whole lot of zombies by falling on top of them while wearing a big iron suit. The art was crisp and clean, so three stars for this effort.
The last tale was something about a zombie uprising in Haiti. Both story and artwork were a dark, muddled and incomprehensible mess.
Zombie-battling machinery? Seems like a great idea, but until someone comes up with better stories, maybe we should just leave it alone.
The first tale features unusual artwork that looks more like paintings than traditional comic book illustration. So far, so good. We meet a one-eyed army commander who looks like he stepped right off a WWII battlefield. He leaves his nagging wife to lead a team of robots and elite fighters, including a guy with cyborg hands and a woman whose only superpower seems to be her massive, nearly entirely exposed bosom. (I can't remember her name - I called her "Major Boobage.") The gist of this story is that robots have a tendency to shoot the crap out of everything in sight, including humans, exposed cleavage and valuable supporting structures like ceiling joists. Oops! I got quite a few chuckles out of this story, though I'm sure that's not the response the author was anticipating.
Story number two was almost enjoyable. An adorable flock of robots is looking for a leader and a brainless hick discovers you can kill a whole lot of zombies by falling on top of them while wearing a big iron suit. The art was crisp and clean, so three stars for this effort.
The last tale was something about a zombie uprising in Haiti. Both story and artwork were a dark, muddled and incomprehensible mess.
Zombie-battling machinery? Seems like a great idea, but until someone comes up with better stories, maybe we should just leave it alone.
November 9, 2010
Weak story, weak art, weak zombies...weak book.
November 2, 2019
Did.... did I actually read this? Is this a thing that my eyes passed over? I almost have a hard time believing I did because it left literally no impact on me at all, except a sense of weariness.
Okay, so as far as I could tell, this is a series of three tales that take place in the Zombies Vs Robots vs Amazons world, seemingly right after the idiot scientists came back thought their portal with the Zombie virus. Thing is though, we know none of these stories actually matter since the original series took place after the zombies had eliminated all human life except a baby (and bizarrely, a group of lesbian Amazons). Therefore, these stories of humans fighting the zombies are pointless since we knew they don’t succeed.
I won’t bother going through the stories individually; that would require opening the book again, so no thanks. Suffice to say, the first story looked okay but the writing was rather horrendous. The second story was okay but lacked s real point or purpose. I didn’t read the third story last when the writer decided to try and write Jamaican accents. Nope, I’m good.
Side note: this book it HUGE. Its 14 inches tall!! Why?! Nothing about the art or story demands it be in this ridiculously oversized format. It feels needlessly extravagant.
I only gave the first series a pass because the art was rad. This just felt like reading about paint drying.
Okay, so as far as I could tell, this is a series of three tales that take place in the Zombies Vs Robots vs Amazons world, seemingly right after the idiot scientists came back thought their portal with the Zombie virus. Thing is though, we know none of these stories actually matter since the original series took place after the zombies had eliminated all human life except a baby (and bizarrely, a group of lesbian Amazons). Therefore, these stories of humans fighting the zombies are pointless since we knew they don’t succeed.
I won’t bother going through the stories individually; that would require opening the book again, so no thanks. Suffice to say, the first story looked okay but the writing was rather horrendous. The second story was okay but lacked s real point or purpose. I didn’t read the third story last when the writer decided to try and write Jamaican accents. Nope, I’m good.
Side note: this book it HUGE. Its 14 inches tall!! Why?! Nothing about the art or story demands it be in this ridiculously oversized format. It feels needlessly extravagant.
I only gave the first series a pass because the art was rad. This just felt like reading about paint drying.
May 14, 2014
Dark but literarily empty. (Like zombies! Or robots!) Quick read, worth it for the art.
This is one of those "Don't choose a book by its cover" moments (that I usually ignore). Three very different art styles but all of them interesting and excelling at setting the tone of their specific tales. Gore level is a 2 out of 5. There were some lines of dialogue that made me cringe (in embarrassment) but I'm going to give Ryall the benefit of the doubt and say he meant for them to be cliche. It's a quick read of mostly fluff. Conceptually, I thought this would be fun, but it falls short in practice. I would have rated this a 2 but I bumped it up because of the art.
This is one of those "Don't choose a book by its cover" moments (that I usually ignore). Three very different art styles but all of them interesting and excelling at setting the tone of their specific tales. Gore level is a 2 out of 5. There were some lines of dialogue that made me cringe (in embarrassment) but I'm going to give Ryall the benefit of the doubt and say he meant for them to be cliche. It's a quick read of mostly fluff. Conceptually, I thought this would be fun, but it falls short in practice. I would have rated this a 2 but I bumped it up because of the art.
November 27, 2010
it's not often I find a graphic novel that I feel has wasted my time. Maybe it was my 'back friday' mood, but this just seemed....dumb. Multiple stories with multiple styles of art...but I just didn't care about this universe at all.
February 29, 2012
Puerile. Low art. No intrinsic value whatsoever. What a waste of my time. I want my 25 minutes back.
June 11, 2012
Nice artwork, writing is lacking.
July 27, 2016
Bad. Just. Bad.
April 25, 2012
Bad, bad, bad. The main character... so cliche, so dated, so poorly written.
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