Robotech Vol. 4: Lisa's Report

Robotech #4

by Simon Furman, Marco Turini (Illustrator)

Robotech manga volume 4 features story by Simon Furman with art by Marco Turini. The hit comic series based on the world-famous, fan favorite animated epic continues with this fourth volume, featuring an all-new twist on the classic transforming-jetfighters-versus-giant-aliens adventure!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2019

About the author

Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro/Tomy's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.

Reviews

[Sud666 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This new version of Robotech is really growing on me. It has similarities with the original story, but there are some big changes. It also makes the story new (since I am fairly knowledgeable about this entire series of novels).

The SDF is trying to return to Earth, but Earth fearing alien invasion doesn't want them back. Meanwhile, the Zentradei are trying to infiltrate the SDF-1. The mystery about Roy Fokker and his double is explained and it sheds a sinister light on Dr. Lang. The story ends with the Invid making an appearance.

Good, interesting story and good artwork make this a Robotech fan's kind of comic.

[Du · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series is switching gears from one I enjoy to one I want to finish. Art is still enjoyable, but the logic is a tad meh.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume was a delight to read, only because it really fleshes out a lot of the more subtle intrigue of the story that the original cartoon didn't quite get to go into detail about. And there's so much to unpack including the weird clone of Roy, the enemy spies in Macross City and the SDF-1 finally returning to Earth! With all this going on and the many intrigues even with our alien antagonists, this book has a lot to offer.

I really like how they've chosen to visually represent Rick Hunter's new ability to perceive things somehow through protoculture - it really works in the comic medium.

And oh man, what a cameo for the next Robotech arc!

[Clifford · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would probably like this a bit more if I had started the new comic series from the beginning. I've seen the old Robotech anime saga, and I got confused pretty quickly. Fortunately, enough of it made sense that I could follow the gist of the story.
One last note is that I read the trade paperback version instead of the Kindle edition, but the Kindle edition is the only one listed.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of issues. This group is all new ground for this retelling. Lots of interesting things happen in this volume. The Invid are on the ship and a mysterious Invid hunter comes through with them.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Twits

O Like the twist and p!it that they have for this now.Kind of getting interesting.. And different then the original ROBETECH.

[Isobelle Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh part 4

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 3 out of 5]

La versión alternativa de los sucesos que presenta la saga Macross tiende a la confusión por el exceso de datos, pero mantiene el interés.