A Robot And His Monkeys

Another minicomic from the backlog. I found a stack of minicomics buried in the pile of unread full-format comics.

Title: A Robot And His Monkeys
Publisher: A Boy and his Robot
Date: 2010
Writer: Jesse Durona
Artist: Jesse Durona

This is a minicomic story based on a webcomic called A Boy and His Robot. The webcomic appears to be offline, and the link above goes to the artist's blog.

In this issue, Kevin visits the zoo with Isaac the robot, who ends up in the primate exhibit following a series of mishaps that also result in a bit of temporary digital amnesia.Isaac is befriended by a troop of monkeys and ascends to their leadership, organizing them for battle against the apes.

Meanwhile, Kevin is searching the zoo for Isaac with his friend Nora, wondering how much trouble one robot could possibly get into. Not surprisingly, the answer is quite bit.

Backup story has Kevin and Isaac searching the woods for the perfect tree-fort tree.

This was cute fun, with enough plot twists to keep it interesting in spite of the small page count.

Rating: 7/10