Do you love Zombies, and Robots? Do you sometimes find yourself wondering, "Where can I find a comic that combines my love of both?". Well I know I did, until I made my fantasy, a reality, by purchasing Chris Ryall's ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS!The plot of ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS is as simple as it's namesake implies. In a distant future man has created primitive robots capable of basic independent thought. These are your classic 60's horror movie, Robots. The Zombies are also pretty standard, they fit the mold of what I call a typical Romero style Zombie, with the exception that have bouts where they seem to be capable of moving faster than two mph.
It also follows your basic imprint of what would be your stereotypical Zombie survival story, except the human are replaced with Robots.
I realize that the last review had to do with zombies, and this may be considered "overkill", but hey, what can ya do.
So here's the set up, Humans make Robots, they send Robots into future everything goes well until one of the Robots comes back with, the virus. So humanity is, for all intents and purposes...screwed. The plague spreads with the Robots unable to help their fleshy overlords. Eventually humanity is wiped out, with the exception of one. Whats left of the Robot resistance operates out of a hollowed out mountain. Their plan, clone the last human child on earth, because apparently all the Robots want is to be loved and without the human to serve they have no purpose.
This, in all honesty is a pretty mediocre set-up, but luckily Ashely Wood's stunning illustrations turn what could have been a generic Zombie/Robot comic into a really fun read! I'm a huge fan of Mr. Wood's work, and for me personally he really made this book.
So basically everything is coming along quite well...Until for some reason or another one of the Robots decides to bring two Zombies into the hideout(I mean honestly what was it thinking). Needless to say they get free and wreak a bit of havoc, but they're exterminated relatively quickly. Unfortunately it gets a bit messy(it usually tends to when you execute someone with a shotgun.) and a splash of blood flies right into Lucy's(the baby) mouth, Kobe!
Unfortunately it ends there and goes into a promo for a Jack Bauer comic.
This really is quite a short comic and it's actually a dollar more than most books $3.99. But, Ashely Wood's illustrations make it well worth the price, pick this up I mean seriously, the art is stunning. I apologize for not scanning more but the book makes it awfully hard to, without compromising its integrity.
Here's the back of the issue, tell me that isn't a turn on!
NEXT: SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH MECHANICAL ABOMINATIONS, OR THE UNDEAD!! I PROMISE!!!
1 comment:
Well, I really did like this comic. I disagree about the "mediocre setup" thing. I rather liked the setup of the comic. I found it cool that the robots were trying to rebuild the human race, since they had really been created with no purpose but to serve them. It's nice to have that, in the sea of robots-rebelling-for-no-reason stories.
My only big problem with the comic does not come up until number two, and even then, it's pretty damn cool.
So yeah. Hip.
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