{"id":9869,"date":"2010-04-23T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T23:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9869"},"modified":"2010-03-29T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:14:53","slug":"hall-thomas-bradford-daniel-robot-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9869","title":{"rendered":"Hall, Thomas &#038; Bradford, Daniel &#8211; Robot 13 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackliststudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/R13_3_Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"R13_3_Cover\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/R13_3_Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"749\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robot 13 #3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey look, an exclusive!\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least something approaching an  exclusive.\u00c2\u00a0 Thomas was nice enough to send me an advance .pdf of this  book (due to come out on March 10th) and, even though I usually don&#8217;t  deal with anything other than physical comics, the timing of this one  was perfect, what with all the chaos of my recent move\/house-sitting  going on.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a land of\u00c2\u00a0monsters and one man-made hero  with amnesia.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least that&#8217;s my initial impression of this first  issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, first issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though it says &#8220;#3&#8221;, the end of the  story indicates that this is book one of a story, so I&#8217;ll go with that.\u00c2\u00a0  It appears to be set in modern day (judging from a bombing at a  restaurant), but you can tell from that cover and the sample that it&#8217;s  not a modern day that most of us see on a regular basis.\u00c2\u00a0 So anyway, the  story begins with a giant cyclops (called Colossus on the cover)  learning that an unnamed man of metal has returned.\u00c2\u00a0 Vowing to kill this  mystery man, he sets out and the scene shifts to an old blind hermit on  a hill tending to, well, a man of metal.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a creepy looking man of  metal, as he has a fishbowl for a head containing a human skull, but he  seems like a nice enough guy, even if he can&#8217;t seem to remember anything  about himself.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the giant cyclops does eventually locate the  metal man and things get ugly from there.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s always a bit touch and  go with me when I read a fantasy like this, but this was a blast.\u00c2\u00a0 I  loved that loopy, almost\u00c2\u00a0Mike Mignola-ish\u00c2\u00a0art, and the writing did a  nice job of setting up the series and making the metal man a sympathetic  figure.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, any first issue that makes me want to see more did its  job.\u00c2\u00a0 Look out for it on March 10th, no price was included but I&#8217;m going  with the random figure of $4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/R13_3_17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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