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sizrobe's review
5.0
Laugh out loud funny. Mostly about Tesla and Edison's rivalry, but there's some Turing in there too. Felt kinda like Hellboy with Squirrel Girl's humor.
crookedtreehouse's review
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.
tea_and_starstuff's review
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Incredibly fun!
greymalkin's review
4.0
Enjoyable, with fun science-y references. I liked the 5th volume "Man with Two Skulls" best because it had the most emotional heft of the three volumes in this collection. And that's my reservaton with Atomic Robo. I haven't quite connected with the characters in a way that drives me to learn more about them. But since this is my first exposure to Atomic Robo, I will reserve final judgement on that until I read the first three volumes (the store was out of copies of it and I was on vacation so wasn't able to wait around for more, or I would have started there).
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