Giant Robot Warriors

by Stuart Moore

Acclaimed writer Stuart Moore (Lone, Zendra) and hot artist Ryan Kelly (Lucifer) present a political satire for the 21st century! Meet the U.S. Department of Giant Robot Warriors -- an underfunded, overburdened team that has to jump into action when a tiny Middle Eastern country suddenly achieves Giant Robot technology. Rufus Hirohito, head of the GRW, has his hands full with a temperamental boss, an attractive CIA liaison, and a robot that's just not ready for combat. And hey -- just what's wrong with the President, anyway?

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 13, 2003

About the author

STUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor.

Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.

Reviews

[Jeff]

Way to on the nose politically. You need some subtly to make it clever.

[Gytha]

The art & style reminds me of Mad magazine.

[Daryl]

Picked this up a few years ago, read it yesterday. A fun, biting satire of the post-9/11, early George W. Bush years. For those of us who remember those years (uncomfortably), this should strike a chord. At first glance, Ryan Kelly's art looks unnecessarily crowded and messy, but in reading it, I didn't find that at all. The book actually looks great, and I would have loved to see it in color.

[Matt Piechocinski]

Great early post 9-11 Bush/war on terror satire.