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A review by crookedtreehouse
A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong, Volume 2: Romance and Road Trips by Rafer Roberts
2.0
This book gave me a headache.
Volume one was terrible, and I expected more of the same. But the crossover with Faith was a really solid superhero story with the right amount of humor. It was fun, pleasant, and interesting. And the following issue began with the same tone, and then it was fart jokes, circus freaks are funny, and things that a robot who had been told about humor might have assumed were funny. It wasn't funny. Or interesting. Or readable. I think if you told Rafer Roberts to write a book that wasn't supposed to be funny, he could write solid story with a humorous edge, but he just doesn't have any skill for humor. At all.
I'm glad this book listed Roberts as "Valiant Exclusive" so I don't have to worry about him popping up in a series I actually care about until he evolves into a better writer.
Volume one was terrible, and I expected more of the same. But the crossover with Faith was a really solid superhero story with the right amount of humor. It was fun, pleasant, and interesting. And the following issue began with the same tone, and then it was fart jokes, circus freaks are funny, and things that a robot who had been told about humor might have assumed were funny. It wasn't funny. Or interesting. Or readable. I think if you told Rafer Roberts to write a book that wasn't supposed to be funny, he could write solid story with a humorous edge, but he just doesn't have any skill for humor. At all.
I'm glad this book listed Roberts as "Valiant Exclusive" so I don't have to worry about him popping up in a series I actually care about until he evolves into a better writer.