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Incredible Change-Bots #2
Incredible Change-Bots Two
Three years ago, an alien race of shape-changing robots came to Earth, fired ray guns at each other for a while, then gave up and flew away. But they left behind one Shootertron, the cunning leader of the evil Fantasticons! Fortunately for Earth, Shootertron's memory is a little fuzzy. Unfortunately for Earth, the rest of the Incredible Change-Bots seem to be on their way back! It's all-new action, drama, and comedy as Shootertron struggles to find an identity on Earth and the rest of the Change-Bots struggle to accomplish much of anything.
Hilarious and gleefully childlike, Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Change-Bots Two is a nostalgic tribute to Saturday morning cartoons.
Hilarious and gleefully childlike, Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Change-Bots Two is a nostalgic tribute to Saturday morning cartoons.
144 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 2011
About the author
Jeffrey Brown
191 books1,392 followersJeffrey Brown was born in 1975 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up reading comic books with dreams of someday drawing them, only to abandon them and focus on becoming a 'fine artist.' While earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown abandoned painting and began drawing comics with his first autobiographical book 'Clumsy' in 2001. Since then he's drawn a dozen books for publishers including TopShelf, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, McSweeney's and Chronicle Books. Simon & Schuster published his latest graphic memoir 'Funny Misshapen Body.' In addition to directing an animated video for the band Death Cab For Cutie, Brown has had his work featured on NPR's 'This American Life' His art has been shown at galleries in New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Paris. Jeffrey's work has also appeared in the Best American Comics series and received the Ignatz Award in 2003 for 'Outstanding Minicomic.'
He currently lives in Chicago with his wife Jennifer and their son Oscar.
He currently lives in Chicago with his wife Jennifer and their son Oscar.
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June 10, 2012
While at the Chicago zinefest one summer I got this comic book (I didn't buy the first volume, alas), signed by the author. The comic's production value is quite good, it is a small hardcover and the artwork is quite good. It tells the humorous story of the conflict between two groups of robots, the fantasticons and the awesomebots. Sort of a parody of the Transformer movies, I found it amusing throughout.
June 25, 2018
Hilarious parody of transformers, in a quick read. Had the wife telling me to shut up and go to sleep every time I laughed out loud.
December 17, 2018
It definitely had a Dav Pilkey feel to it. It was cute, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd read it when I was younger.
November 24, 2019
I enjoyed this more than the first. Not entirely sure why. I think the jokes landed better.
December 9, 2019
Haw haw!
March 25, 2021
An improvement on the first volume, more amusing with more of a plot and more chuckles (and even milder rude jokes). (B)
May 20, 2022
Un libro muy ligerito, divertido y fácil de leer. 100% recomendable.
Una pena no haber entendido ciertas cosas por no haberme leído la primera parte :(
Una pena no haber entendido ciertas cosas por no haberme leído la primera parte :(
October 12, 2022
better than a good portion of the IDW Transformers tbh
November 27, 2011
Three years ago, an alien race of shape changing robots came to Earth...by accident of course. But they stayed, fired ray guns for a while, and then flew away to find their home planet. But they left behind the leader of the evil Fantasticons, Shootertron. Luckily for Earth Shootertron’s memory seems to be gone...and for the time being he’s living on a farm. And then everything changes when the tractor attacks! Then the rest of the Change-Bots get lost and come back to Earth again! OK they crash land...again. What kind of drama and mischief will the Change-Bots create this time around? And can the evil tractors be stopped?
I love Jeffrey Brown’s sense of humor and his writing style. He pays great homage, well parody, of the Transformers and those things that never made sense in them...and makes fun of them. Like why the human characters always accompanied the Transformers to the scenes of battle. Or when characters that were supposed to be dead come back to life in the next episode. The explanation was of course obvious all along...time travelers! The story has a nice pace to it and some great humor. For example, I really like that Shootertron is keeping a diary at the beginning where he wonders who he is and what his purpose is...and how he doesn’t trust the tractor. It’s a well written story with good action, drama, and of course comedy. And I can’t wait to see what comes next.
The artwork is done in Jeffrey Brown’s normal somewhat lose and sketchy style. You would think after seeing some of his other works that this wouldn’t work well for this type of comic, but it really does. It almost seems to mimic the sense of humor in the story through his depictions of the characters. One of the best thing about this book is his character design. He creates some really funny and fantastic Change-bots, such as the one that can change into a microwave. My one complaint is that I wish the book size was just a bit bigger, because it would give the reader a better chance to see the images and the little details that Jeffrey is able to capture with the markers.
This is a great sequel to the first book (and if you haven’t read it yet go and do so now!) I can’t wait to see what Jeffrey Brown comes up with next.
I love Jeffrey Brown’s sense of humor and his writing style. He pays great homage, well parody, of the Transformers and those things that never made sense in them...and makes fun of them. Like why the human characters always accompanied the Transformers to the scenes of battle. Or when characters that were supposed to be dead come back to life in the next episode. The explanation was of course obvious all along...time travelers! The story has a nice pace to it and some great humor. For example, I really like that Shootertron is keeping a diary at the beginning where he wonders who he is and what his purpose is...and how he doesn’t trust the tractor. It’s a well written story with good action, drama, and of course comedy. And I can’t wait to see what comes next.
The artwork is done in Jeffrey Brown’s normal somewhat lose and sketchy style. You would think after seeing some of his other works that this wouldn’t work well for this type of comic, but it really does. It almost seems to mimic the sense of humor in the story through his depictions of the characters. One of the best thing about this book is his character design. He creates some really funny and fantastic Change-bots, such as the one that can change into a microwave. My one complaint is that I wish the book size was just a bit bigger, because it would give the reader a better chance to see the images and the little details that Jeffrey is able to capture with the markers.
This is a great sequel to the first book (and if you haven’t read it yet go and do so now!) I can’t wait to see what Jeffrey Brown comes up with next.
December 27, 2014
Jeffrey Brown has a knack for dry, humorous parodies. I watched Transformers as a kid and had a few toys but I've never been a huge fan even with the resurgence in recent years. Nevertheless, this comic had me laughing out loud and smiling with each page turn at the ridiculous dialogue and hilarious antics of the Change-bots and their bumbling human companions. My nine year old son kept peeking over my shoulder to see what was so funny. Well done Mr. Brown!
March 24, 2015
These are funny spoofs on the Transformers franchise. While Brown has gone on to gain much success with his Star Wars spoofs, which seem to have no end in sight, there is a fresh comedic brilliance with these books that make them all the more enjoyable.
January 25, 2012
go-bots / transformers parody. this sequel is pretty sweet. Jeffery Brown mostly does a lot of self absorbed unoriginal graphic novels. but the incredible change bots books made me laugh out loud. funny stuff, cuz i say so
April 12, 2011
A really funny and silly spoof of Transformers that captures a lot of the fun of the original series while mocking some of its more ridiculous aspects.
April 27, 2011
Independent comics style existentialism grafted onto a Transformers ripoff. Some funny stuff in this one.
Four stars.
Four stars.
June 1, 2011
I was super-excited to find out that there was a sequel! I LOL'd a bunch...but Jeffrey Brown makes me do that often.
August 9, 2011
GREAT!!! FUN!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!
March 2, 2012
I liked this one better than the first one. Much funnier.
March 19, 2012
This is the leading work on anthropomorphic microwaves and heterosexual robo-relationships. Near flawless portrayal in my humble opinion. Go Fantasticons!
September 24, 2012
Silly and fun parody of the Transformers.
It was a gas.
It was a gas.
September 17, 2013
Better than it's predecessor.
February 2, 2015
what I thought about this book is that it had a vary quick change in like plans that everything was happening at once I liked it a lot but just hope there more improved ones
February 5, 2015
Sometimes you just want goofy fun.
April 21, 2015
About as good as the first. But Brown's humor is a bit better in this volume.
June 23, 2015
I picked this up on a whim and it delivered on the amusement factor. Brown has a lot of fun riffing on key backstory/behaviors of existing cartoons/superheroes.
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November 11, 2013
Still love these guys. Very sweet.
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