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marioncromb's review
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
The Real Science Adventures/Atomic Robo (although he's not in this book) comics are always fun. Great cast of historical characters: Tesla, Houdini, Annie Oakley etc., in sci fi situations. However I found this one a little hard to follow particularly the action scenes, and there'd be big jumps between scenes/panels that made it disjointed/confusing to work out where the characters were and what was happening to them.
librariabillie's review
4.0
A fun story. The art changes every "chapter" which is distracting but also annoying. Since Tesla, Houdini, and Lovecraft look similar, the changing artwork makes it difficult to identify the characters and to distinguish between the three. The story also suffers from what I call "Smurfette Syndrome" (I can't remember if it has an official name now or not). Other than a female assassin who is in a few frames at the beginning, there is only one female character, Annie Oakley (a shooter). 80's cartoons had this problem, too. They needed a female character so that girls would watch, but they didn't want to take the time to create more than one female character in a group of males. Female scientists or millionaires would have been nice. Still, I enjoyed Oakley's character.
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