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I was really worried from the first two volumes that I was getting a watery version of hellboy. Near-invulnerable wizecracking weirdness-weary protagonist fistfights nazis, then a nazi brain in a jar, then the ghost of rasputin (which had to be a direct homage, right?) then coming next: cthulhu horrors? I know I'm not just cherry picking similarities, hellboy must have been a big influence on the whole style and feel of the early volumes. However from shadow from beyond time onwards it's really become its own thing, robo in particular getting fleshed out. Extremely enjoyable and unusually funny for a print comic. I'm especially loving all the semi-realistic science dialogue. "It couldn't have worked that way, it wasn't a xenon laser", "So why did it work?", "Good question, work up a treatment and we'll get you a lab to find out". Someone involved here must have worked in research before. How often are these released digitally?
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Hyperactive posted:No one believes this, but: nope. That is loving incredible. So even the ghost of rasputin thing was total coincidence? Welp! quote:Volume 3 was specifically engineered to be the Little Mac uppercut to the Hellboy comparison and by and large it worked. I'm pretty stoked that that was intentional, because it was a very powerfully successful move. I might have stopped reading except that there was this tremendous sense of turning into something unique and great. Meanwhile I just looked up the team robo promise, and I love what you people are doing a whole lot: quote:No angst "No everything that is wrong with modern comic books" So anyway, who is it that is literally a research scientist or knows one extremely well? Where do you get the ridiculously realistic and hilarious flavour of genuine science?
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