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Atomic Robo Volume 1: Atomic Robo & the Fightin Scientists of Tesladyne TP Paperback – December 22, 2009

by Brian Clevinger (Author), Paul Ens (Editor), Scott Wegener (Artist),
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  • In 1923, Nikola Tesla's career is in its twilight... until he unveils a robot with automatic intelligence — ATOMIC ROBO! After decades of dealing with all manner of weirdness, Atomic Robo and the so-called Action Scientists of Tesladyne become the go-to defense force against the unexplained!
  • See ROBO take on Nazis, giant ants, clockwork mummies, walking pyramids, Mars, cyborgs, and his nemesis, Baron von Helsingard, in his first trade paperback graphic novel. This edition collects the hard-to-find, sold-out, debut issues of Atomic Robo #1-6, complete with cover gallery, pin-ups, concept sketches, and bonus stories.
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  1. Print length
    180 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Red 5 Comics
  4. Publication date
    December 22, 2009
  5. Reading age
    13 - 16 years
  6. Dimensions
    6.6 x 0.5 x 10 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0980930200
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0980930207
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red 5 Comics (December 22, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 180 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0980930200
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0980930207
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 16 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.6 x 0.5 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 66 ratings

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Brian Clevinger

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Brian Clevinger lives in Richmond VA where he spends most of his day reading and/or writing about history, heists, and scams.

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Ian T. Spaulding
5.0 out of 5 stars Like Hellboy, but with more fun (and less mythos)
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2012
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Reading through Atomic Robo, I'm reminded of Mike Mignolia's Hellboy, which is not all too surprising since artist Scott Wegener explicitly mentions Mignolia as inspiration) - but really, it's in all the good ways. The art style is not overly complex with many thick, sharp lines (although not as minimalist as Mignolia, and much more blue tones rather than red ones). Both comics feature a wise-cracking, nigh-invulnerable, long-lived super heroes supported by a team of action-scientist-types (in Robo their title IS Action Scientist, dispensing all pretense), investigating weird phenomena, and backed by some organization with tangential ties to the US government.

And yet, they are very different, too. Hellboy is tormented about his past and grim about his job, whereas Robo is surprisingly sentimental about his past (yet in never a way that is intrusive or angsty), and seems to genuinely enjoy the wacky adventures he goes on. Hellboy fights obscure mythical creatures whereas Robo fights a grab bag of made-up stuff, but in return we get to hear the team bicker about how these things are defying conventional physics ("Imaginary physics," says one, "...it'll revolutionize science. Just wait until we figure out what to look for and how to find it.") Clearly, this is a series that is not afraid to step back and have fun with itself.

So we have a series that is fun, action-packed, and thoughtful to boot. Great read.
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Barnesm
5.0 out of 5 stars He's an atomic robot who does science with sass
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013
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It has been compared to Mike Mignola's Hell Boy and the artist who created Atomic Robo is Okay with that, but I think Atomic Robo is way funnier. Its bright and cheery and makes you smile.
Fresh, double fresh plus good.

In the story you will find robo
Killing/ (thats sort of like capturing a evil scientist on the eve of World War II

Fighting Giant Ants, who may or may not posses lazer beam eyes because hell why not, with help from his team of fighting scientists from Tesladyne

A pyramid in Eqypt that shoots solar death beams, fortunately on the team was someone whose Doctoral thesis was on solar deathbeam design. Best response
"Judging by how these things usually go, I think its safer to assume mummies until proven otherwise"
"That's good advice in anyline of work'.

Learn why Robo arranged rocks on Mars to spell "Stephen Hawkings is a Bastard"

Fights a brain in a jar

and we meet the most action of the action scientists of Tesladyne who is introduced as sole survivor of a mission into the vampire dimension but we come to know as Jenkins.

the first volume kicks 7 different kind of ass.
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comedianmasta
5.0 out of 5 stars Scorpios Review
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2015
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I have wanted to get into comic for a long time. I am so glad I got to get into this one. I expected a psudo steampunk or a Dieselpunk story with awesome robot fighting. What I got was a truly intriguing story about a sentient Robot longing to achieve his dream of being considered human. We follow his life throughout the ages as he never ages but the world around him changes. This wise cracking robot is Iron man meets peter parker meets Captain Jack Harkness. I am eager to continue the series because they barely touch on Robo's origins, Tesladines origins, or the heavily hinted at events of a Dieselpunk WWII.

In other news: the art style is amazing, dialogue is witty, clean, and never gets old. The situations are enjoyable. There is even some art in the back of the book discussing the beginning of Atomic Robo.

Overall. I give this first volume a 10/10. I lovee it. This was fantastic.

~Lieutenant Nathaniel Flint of the Landship Scorpios
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5.0 out of 5 stars Science-fiction adventure at its breezy best!
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2012
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Though it would be easy to describe Atomic Robo as a science fiction interpretation of the basic concept underlying Mike Mignola's Hellboy (there are definitely some surface similarities), to do so without further examining Atomic Robo is to do a grave disservice to the charm and energy of Clevinger's creation.

Atomic Robo is a journey through a world inspired by the entire breadth of science fiction, with special emphasis on its pulp heyday (Nazi robots) and the Atomic Age excesses of the 1950s (giant ants). Clevinger somehow combines these disparate period influences into a cohesive whole, a narrative which unfolds over the course of decades, revealed to the reader piece-by-piece in non-linear fashion. The story is briskly paced, exploding with one huge action set-piece after another, but Clevinger never forgets that his characters are people...even the titular Robo. The dialogue is light and breezy, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, but it isn't without depth, as Robo (created in the 1920s by Nikola Tesla) occasionally wrestles with the implications of his mechanical immortality.

A rollicking adventure yarn with heart and brought to life by clean, energetic artwork, Atomic Robo is probably the best sci-fi/adventure comic in publication today.
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Michael D. Dimuzio
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Start
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2010
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This is one of the more impressive starts to a long running story in comics. The events are presented as short, one shot stories, with obvious potential for long-term plans that really come together in the later books. Thus you get rollicking, light-hearted hijinks with a darker, more substantial undercurrent that builds up subtly. Neither over nor under written or produced, with top notch art and writing! Some of the stories seemed a little insubstantial, or I'd give it 5 stars, but overall a VERY solid foundation!
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Leon
5.0 out of 5 stars Like fun? Then like Atomic Robo.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2014
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Atomic Robo is a fantastic character and the adventures that he has are wonderful, colourful, and humorous. If you don't like Atomic Robo, then you don't like fun.
This being volume 1 Robo's character is a little rougher around the edges than in later stories but it's still fantastic.
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richard
5.0 out of 5 stars I can't possibly recommend Atomic Robo enough
Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2015
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I can't possibly recommend Atomic Robo enough. I can't believe I waited this long to start buying these books. I had known about them since the start, due to reading Brian Clevinger's long-running and hilarious web-comic 8 Bit Theater.

If you like things that are fun and clever, give Robo a try.
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