Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day 2011

Getting back on track now that the 30-day meme is over.

Title: Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day 2011
Date: May 2011
Publisher: Red 5 Comics
Writer: Brian Clevinger, Trevor Pryce, David Ziebart, Tony Trov, Johnny Zito
Artist: Scott Wegener, Dan Glasl, Ambert Gant, The Rahzzah
Colorist: Ronda Pattison, Adam Guzowski
Letterer: Jeff Powell, Troy Peteri, Gabe Bautista

The Atomic Robo story here is played mostly for laughs as Robo is one of the celebrity judges at a school science fair, which is then attacked by a talking dinosaur who goes to multiple levers of meta in a barrage of Doctor Who references in the midst of his fight with Robo. Opening bit was silly, but once the bad guy got on the scene the dialogue was witty and very funny. I love the general geekiness of this book. Writer Brian Clevinger also took advantage of Atomic Robo's tradition of jumping time periods to put a satisfying and touching (but still fun) ending on this.

The backup stories were Foster Broussard, and Moon Girl. Foster Broussard showed potential to be a nice steampunk/weird west tale, although all we got here was an introduction. It was a bit wordy, and the (anti-?) hero's ability to talk himself out of a hanging seemed a bit contrived. That being said, this did a nice job of laying down the foundation of a tale with a lot of potential.

Moon Girl was a superhero piece, with the title character battling a female crime lord and her henchmen. The two characters clearly share some background, but not all that much is explained in between punches.

Rating: 7/10