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1_and_owenly's review
5.0
Robo meets Lovecraft in both the literal and thematic sense. Also Charles Fort and Carl Sagan.
This book is so much fun!
I'm not a big fan of Lovecraft the person, but the comic manages to keep his less savory qualities while still keeping the story fun.
And best of all, it confronts my biggest problem with his stories. I hate the idea what his major theme is that Mankind is better off NOT knowing things. It's literally the opposite of science! So when you have Robo and Sagan dealing with a being that challenges their understanding of the universe, how do they proceed?
The answer could not be more enjoyable.
This book is so much fun!
I'm not a big fan of Lovecraft the person, but the comic manages to keep his less savory qualities while still keeping the story fun.
And best of all, it confronts my biggest problem with his stories. I hate the idea what his major theme is that Mankind is better off NOT knowing things. It's literally the opposite of science! So when you have Robo and Sagan dealing with a being that challenges their understanding of the universe, how do they proceed?
The answer could not be more enjoyable.
causticbryn's review
4.0
I feel like Atomic Robo finally caught it's stride on this book. I found the first two entertaining enough but not much really stuck to me. Any fans of Lovecraftian anything should check this collection out.
ruzgofdi's review
4.0
At first, I didn't think this was going to be another focused run. It does the thing where each issue of this volume seems to jump several decades. But when you're dealing with an interdimensional horror that exists across all time, it's easier to pull everything together. I also rather like its take on Lovecraftian horrors (including a meeting with H.P.). I don't have any experience with the original material, but my impression is that such things are usually unknowable, unexplainable beasties best to be avoided. Robo tries to deal with these encounters as things that could be explained with "science" (fictional, theoretical science that only exists within the setting, but still).
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