The Long Way

author: Michael Corbin Ray

name: Wayne

average rating: 4.03

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2014/06/06

date added: 2014/06/06

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction' is a collection of stories from 2000AD Magazine. These all are from the late 1970s. They are serial stories, but complete story arcs are included here. The Ro-Busters are a team of robots that help with international rescue. Their boss is the conniving mostly robot, Howard Quartz. He's also known as Ten Percent for the amount of human he has left.



The two main robots for most of these stories are Ro-Jaws, a kind of crass plumber robot, and Hammer-Stein, a soldier robot with memories of the last war. His memories make up one of the better story arcs in the collection. There is also a story with the Terra-Meks, a group of giant robots sent in to destroy a town and Big Charlie, the friendly harbor robot who stands in their way.



The art is all great, with black and white illustrations. Writing is mainly by Pat Mills, who writes an introduction. Alan Moore also has writing duties on this series. It's not a series I was familiar with, but I found it to be goofy fun.



I was given a review copy by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this fun graphic novel.





via Wayne's bookshelf: read http://ift.tt/1q43z40