Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

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Summary: Big Guy and Rusty the Boy robot KICK BUTT!!!!
Review: Big Guy and Rusty is a sci-fi story of a world that has..er..alien troubles. So, a city constructs a robot that will protect it's citizens. His name was Big Guy. Big Guy served for many years protecting the city, until another robot was constructed. His name was Rusty, a real robot with artificial inteligence. The creators of Rusty thought he could protect the city alone, but he show'd wrong. Therefore, Big Guy has to give Rusty some alien kicking techniques, so he can finally resign from being protector of the city.

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Summary: I love Frank Miller...but
Review: Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Frank Miller. I also love the illustrator Geoff Darrow. Together they produced Hard Boiled, a marveoulous, dark, confusing tale. The problems with Big Guy and Rusty...is that it's all flash and no substance. It's like that prom date you dreamed of all through high school. Pretty, shallow, and um...pretty. And it's short. It could be that this is what the artist and author were going for. It might be that it is built out of a reverence of Astro-boy, Manzinger-Z, and other popular "big-robot" old school cartoons. But for Frank Miller...I'd expect a bit more bite for my buck.

In any case. Three stars. 'Cause it's pretty.

Rating:
Summary: I love Frank Miller...but
Review: Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Frank Miller. I also love the illustrator Geoff Darrow. Together they produced Hard Boiled, a marveoulous, dark, confusing tale. The problems with Big Guy and Rusty...is that it's all flash and no substance. It's like that prom date you dreamed of all through high school. Pretty, shallow, and um...pretty. And it's short. It could be that this is what the artist and author were going for. It might be that it is built out of a reverence of Astro-boy, Manzinger-Z, and other popular "big-robot" old school cartoons. But for Frank Miller...I'd expect a bit more bite for my buck.

In any case. Three stars. 'Cause it's pretty.

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Summary: Mass Destruction, H.O. scale
Review: Forget the animated series. It's heart is in the right place.

But this came before the series; it's the real deal.

An applecheeked, Bob's Big Boy-lookin' android teams up with a gigantic, old-school meca-robot to fight evil and save the world.

MEANWHILE: the dry, tongue-in-cheek humor and ultra-violence of Frank Miller teams up with the painstaking, intricate artwork of Geof Darrow to create a buddy comedy of epic proportions.

What's it like?

It's a little like if "Tintin" author/artist Herge read a bunch of old Marvel comics and decided to do a "Godzilla" story.

It's a little like Mutt and Jeff if they were nuclear powered crimefighters up against a bad guy from an anime adventure.

But mostly it's like covering your old model airplanes with rubber cement and torching it good. Then doing the same thing to your H.O. scale train set and your Tyco racetrack. (which nobody should ever do -- read the book, it's better and safer)

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Summary: Better than a mouth full of honey bees!
Review: I saw the cartoon version of this on the telly the other day, and it dawned on me that I have the originals in my basement. I though I was going to strike it rich for sure, by selling them on Ebay, but no dice. There was another guy selling them, and it looked like he was only going to get about five bucks for them. This made me real sad for the other guy, so I bid a million dollars. I hoped this would make the market catch fire, like my aunts house did when I tried to fix her toaster. Someone told me later that you should always unplug a toaster when you try to fix it with a butter knife. They also told me that the toast is supposed to come out only a little, and not shoot across the room like in the cartoons where one guy shoots toast at another guy like it was a cannon or something.

Okokok, so I found this comic book in my basement, but I don't think anyone would want it anyway, because my basement is really smelly and stuff, and nobody likes a thing that is really smelly, do they? Maybe a dog would. I don't like dogs much.

Buy my comic book, your dog will love it!

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Summary: Better than a mouth full of honey bees!
Review: I saw the cartoon version of this on the telly the other day, and it dawned on me that I have the originals in my basement. I though I was going to strike it rich for sure, by selling them on Ebay, but no dice. There was another guy selling them, and it looked like he was only going to get about five bucks for them. This made me real sad for the other guy, so I bid a million dollars. I hoped this would make the market catch fire, like my aunts house did when I tried to fix her toaster. Someone told me later that you should always unplug a toaster when you try to fix it with a butter knife. They also told me that the toast is supposed to come out only a little, and not shoot across the room like in the cartoons where one guy shoots toast at another guy like it was a cannon or something.

Okokok, so I found this comic book in my basement, but I don't think anyone would want it anyway, because my basement is really smelly and stuff, and nobody likes a thing that is really smelly, do they? Maybe a dog would. I don't like dogs much.

Buy my comic book, your dog will love it!

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Summary: Not your grandmother's Miller
Review: The first thing you'll notice is Geoff Darrow's knotty tight sublime hyper-etched artwork, lines running like veins into the architecture and broken glass that is Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. This is not the Miller of Sin City or DK Returns et cetera,,,,watch him rip away the Chandler influence and dive into Japanese toy culture via Godzilla gggrraaaaaauu. This won't give you a typical Milleresque vision, whatever that means, but it's a cool trip through a world owned by toys and monsters. Great book for kids. Bedtime story and such.

Rating:
Summary: Not your grandmother's Miller
Review: The first thing you'll notice is Geoff Darrow's knotty tight sublime hyper-etched artwork, lines running like veins into the architecture and broken glass that is Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. This is not the Miller of Sin City or DK Returns et cetera,,,,watch him rip away the Chandler influence and dive into Japanese toy culture via Godzilla gggrraaaaaauu. This won't give you a typical Milleresque vision, whatever that means, but it's a cool trip through a world owned by toys and monsters. Great book for kids. Bedtime story and such.

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Summary: Strictly For Artists Who Appreciate Excellent Rendering!
Review: This book is the black and white and 'dialogue-less' version of a similar comic title released by Darkhorse which is in colour and contains dialogue. If these elements are important to you, you may want to purchase the original version. Having said that, it is interesting that the narrative runs very smoothly even without the dialogue as the Big Guy and Rusty stories are very simple 'Rescue the World from Monsters' narratives.

The reason some may want to purchase this is to drool over the very detailed inking artwork done by the artists which is lost in the smaller version and obscured by the dialogue balloons. Personally I prefer this 'King-size' version as it allows me to examine in superb detail, the careful, intricate and excellent illustrations.

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Summary: Animated series
Review: Where is the animated series? Pokemon killed this show when it came out, I think it got more run time in Spain. Oh, Goef, come out of hiding in France. I know story board work is a lot more money but comic books need you. If a maligned by the network that owns it cartoon like Invader Zim can be in the top 25 at amazon so can Big Guy.

How about a Moon Pig one shot?