“Good story. Excellent art. This is a great choice for folks looking for something for a reader who has a good sense of humor but wants to avoid questionable content. There is one reference to donkey sex. Written in giant letters with weed killer on a football field. However, because it’s in the book, it’s really only like size 24 font. So it kind of evens out.
The plot revolves around a robot fighting tournament. Remember that show from a few years back? Where a couple remote-controlled robots would enter a ring and fight to the death?
It seemed like a great idea. But it turns out that it’s not all that exciting.
I have a theory.
Once you’re coming up with theories about why early 2000’s robot fighting shows were not as good as they could have been, you’re really getting a bit too expansive. This is a theory/cry for help.
The thing I never got into about wrestling, same deal with UFC, is that there’s all this nonsense in between the actual fighting. How this guy hates that guy because he stole his imaginary wife or something. How this fighter has been training this way so he’s ready to kick ass. All that boring nonsense that’s not fighting at all. It’s just filler.
The robot show was like that, if I remember.
Now, it could have worked. Because we’re talking about huge nerds here. So we could have a montage where we see which snack foods are picked out. Which Doritos have just the right kick. Whether Mountain Dew classic or Code Red was the athlete’s beverage of choice. I bet there were some very long, very deep conversations when it came time to name these robots. Rush lyrics, Battlestar Galactica references. All on the table.
But instead of showing fun nerd stuff, we got, you know, specs on the robots. Oh, Killer Kruncher weighs 85 lbs? Isssss that a lot for a robot or not a lot? Does any of this mean anything?
Plus, I’m pretty sure they weren’t allowed to use guns or something that shot out saw blades or something. THAT would have been great. A robot that looks like a porcupine made of shotguns.
And with that image, I leave you and hope to spur on a young roboteer out there to make something truly spectacular that will teach us all the real meaning of terror.”