Nickelodeon Magazine announces Comic winners
The children have spoken and here’s what they say – Nickelodeon Magazine – Nicktoon Comics.
I’m really pleased to see that so many kids are enjoying Diary of a Wimpy Kid! I chuckled at the Simpsons win too.
Atomic Robo – review
Someone once mentioned that it was harder to write humor than to write dramatically. I have to agree. But it’s really hard to write humor with a heart, with some kind of dramatic emotion behind it. I imagine it really really hard to write humor with a heart – buried somewhere deep in a military robot. Yet, that’s just what Atomic Robo pulls off. The smart mouthed Robo leads his team into the weirdest of the weird situations. Got a giant ant infestation? Or maybe a centuries old pyramid set to attack your city? Well, then you call in Robo.
The small limited series is deceptive. At first it seems like just another mecha story, but once inside the pages it quickly becomes clear that in this case, the robot is in charge. The robot can feel pain and apparently some form of emotion. The case for his emotion is that in order to save his fellow human team members he must feel something for them. This emotion drives him to be a hero, however, it also leaves him lonely. He watches the men and women he loved grow old, leave his team and eventually die. But through it all he keeps his mouth running and his fists punching.
A good one for all ages, I highly recommended an afternoon with Robo.
