Robotika: For a Few Rubles More #1
Archaia Studios Press
Writer: David Moran
Artist: Alex Sheikman
$3.95 and 35 pages
www.archaiastudios.com.
The first issue of a comic book series is similar to a first date. It’s impossible to learn everything about the object of one’s initial interest, but if the packaging isn’t right and there’s not enough that’s intriguing, there won’t be a second encounter, you can bet your sweet bippy.
Prepare to bet your sweet bippy (and your hard earned cash) on a second date.
Robotika is the second miniseries of a title that reads and looks a lot like the movie Mad Max if it had been set in Japan, filmed like the Western classic High Noon, and written by a streamlined H. P. Lovecraft (the master of subtle horror).
Intriguing? You betcha.
Throw in a little pseudo-science from the pulp magazines of the 1930s.
Robotika is sorta like a techo-western sushi comic book. Ah-so-yippee-ki-yi-ya!
Its reality-based art is heavily influenced by Japanese and European comic art as well as by the home-grown American variety, and it just doesn’t get much better.
In addition, I applauded the restraint used when dealing with violence, nudity, profanity, and perversion in the first series. I clap heartily again.
However, the promotional blurb on its website says a member of an elite bodyguard protecting the queen is “sent on a mission to recover a stolen invention that, in the wrong hands, could trigger a bloody civil war”.
Well, that’s why you’ll need a second date. Not much of that is in the first issue, but it sure made me want to read the second one. And maybe sing: “Do not forsake me, oh my darling…geisha”.
Robitaka: For a Few Rubles More is highly recommended.
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