A review by crookedtreehouse
Atomic Robo: The Crystals Are Integral Collection by Scott Wegener, Brian Clevinger
5.0
Undead Thomas Edison. A small lizard creature who, probably falsely, claims to be a time-travelling velociraptor called Dr. Dinosaur. A mid-century vigilante who knows that the root of "vigilante" means "to wait". Nosferatu who neither sparkle, nor try to seduce anyone. Kaiju. Bad-ass Tesla vs. Einstein in a battle of currents. Space travel (but not very far).
"The Crystals Are Integral", a Dr. Dinosaur quote, is the run of comics when I fell in love with the Atomic Robo series. The previous arcs played with narrative flow in an interesting, if incosistent pattern. In this volume you get three solid stories. Each volume is told mostly chronologically, with an occasional flashback. But the three arcs call-forward to each other, as volume two clearly takes place before volume onem and volume three is much later. It's kind of a cool way to see characters progress, as early Robo is Super Annoying (but not in a way that you don't want to keep reading his adventures).
Clevinger does a fantastic job with making his characters more than just quip-factories, a skill he didn't have yet in the first volume. And the call-forwards (it's a call back told out of order) are just fun to read.
I recommend this for people looking for an all-age appropriate science adventure book, Tesla fans, people who hate all things DC (comics, the United States capitol, the energy source, Dick Clark, the Disney Channel, etc.), comic readers who know that Jurassic Park is a factual mess but love it anyway, people who like fun.
"The Crystals Are Integral", a Dr. Dinosaur quote, is the run of comics when I fell in love with the Atomic Robo series. The previous arcs played with narrative flow in an interesting, if incosistent pattern. In this volume you get three solid stories. Each volume is told mostly chronologically, with an occasional flashback. But the three arcs call-forward to each other, as volume two clearly takes place before volume onem and volume three is much later. It's kind of a cool way to see characters progress, as early Robo is Super Annoying (but not in a way that you don't want to keep reading his adventures).
Clevinger does a fantastic job with making his characters more than just quip-factories, a skill he didn't have yet in the first volume. And the call-forwards (it's a call back told out of order) are just fun to read.
I recommend this for people looking for an all-age appropriate science adventure book, Tesla fans, people who hate all things DC (comics, the United States capitol, the energy source, Dick Clark, the Disney Channel, etc.), comic readers who know that Jurassic Park is a factual mess but love it anyway, people who like fun.