The Fictory is now well on their way with their hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for a short-film featuring everyone’s favorite robot scientist-adventurer Atomic Robo. They’re doing so well in fact they’ve released a trailer for the animated short film Atomic Robo: Last Stop. (NOTE: Skip to the 4min. mark if you want to go straight to the trailer.)
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It’s always fun to get to the final issue of an Atomic Robo series and see how writer Brian Clevinger will tie things together and what crazy climax artist Scott Wegener will save for each series’ finale.
Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X has given us a trips to space and Nebraska (which more action-packed than you might initially expect), and Japan, a well-financed shadowy government conspiracy, and a convoy of truckers (for science!). The final issue reveals who has been behind the attacks on Atomic Robo‘s life, and why. And as the title states it’s a ghost… well kinda. It’s a computer ghost.
Under Hashima Island, Japan, Atomic Robo discovers an “Automatic Learning Algorithm Network” built by Dr. Alan Turning in 1951. The program has been running unsupervised since Turning lost security clearance the following year. Over time the artifical intelligence has used beureaucrazy, secrecy and telecommunications to influence the world and predict the collapse of human civilization.
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Someone is playing with our robot hero. First they laid a trap for him in space and then shot him down. Only through a dangerous mid-air rescue did out metal friend survive. Robo’s pals were able to trace the communication for the attacks to a sub-station controlled by a shadowy government agency known as Majestic 12. And they’re not done yet.
Issue #4 opens with Robo and his team under an attack from an army of Majectic 12 operatives complete with helicopters, armored transports, and tanks. Severly outgunned Atomic Robo and his pals spend the first half of the issue on the run before eluding their pursuit long enough to enlist the help of a convoy of truckers – for science!
Thanks to the help of some low tech trucker know-how, Robo is able to trace the signals back to Hashima Island (where Louis and Martin are about to land). With one issue left (enclosed in a giant crate on his way to the island) Atomic Robo will have to save his friends, uncover the truth behind the conspiracy that wants him dead, and save the world. Best of the week.
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“The Deadly Art of Science” comes to an explosive conclusion as Atomic Robo discovers Thomas Edison‘s secret lair and uncovers the truth behind his plans. Okay, so his basic method of “uncovering the truth” is to get captured and let the villain yammer on about his evil genius.
What Edison wants with the “skull in the box” (as Robo so eloquently puts it) along with the other machinery he’s stolen is to tap into the Odic Force – the underlying energy of the universe. What does he hope to accomplish? Nothing short of immortality.
Thanks to a last-minute save by Nikola Tesla and some quick thinking by Robo, the group live to fight another day. We’re also given a humorous epilogue in the form of a letter Jack Tarot sends to Robo in which he tries to come to terms with the recent events forced on him by this maddening robot.
From beginning to end this is the best series of so far of Atomic Robo and I’m going to be on the lookout for the trade paperback of the full series to add to my shelf. Definitely worth a look.
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As the mysterious scientific robberies continue Atomic Robo and Helen take a night off to enjoy a movie and a leisurely stroll. It’s a perfect night, at least until they come across a massive robot committing another robbery. Robo’s attempt to help the police apprehend the thief is less than helpful.
There are some nice moments between Tesla and Robo and Robo driving Tarot a little more insane when the robot can’t remember not to keep using the secret entrance. And Helen makes the hard realization she’s dating a robot who is only seven years-old. Yeah… when you put it like that it is pretty creepy.
We also get a little more of the book’s villain this time around – Thomas Edison. We only get a short glimpse as to what his scientists are working on, but the final issue seems primed to wrap-up all these stories satisfactorily. Worth a look.
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