Various artists
IDW Publishing
I've been seeing this series touted around for a while now so I was happy to see it show up in my local library. This first one though was pretty bad.
The first story tells of a military unit formed of experimental robot soldiers. It's barely coherent story is rendered even less so by the ghastly lifeless static artwork of Menton Matthews III. It's vaguely photo realistic, sub Templesmith tat.
The second story about a cleaner and the suit some robots build for him is slightly more together and the art (by Paul McCaffrey) is much nicer but thew ending is predictable.
The worst story is kept for last with voodoo zombies pitched against actual ones and with the robots turning up halfway through. The art by Gabriel Hernandez is a muddy mess but again it's Chris Ryall's lack of storytelling chops that brings the whole thing crashing down.
Hopefully the other book will be better but on this evidence I'm not holding out much hope.
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