REVIEW: Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, #3

[CBR News]

In the gorgeously drawn and colored "Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific" #3, Robo puts himself in harm's way to assist his rescuers the Flying She-Devils, and a mysterious someone from his WWII past shows up.


Full review here.

[rolacka]

Nice to see a review for Atomic Robo on CBR!

Best issue of the arc so far, and gorgeous colouring. Now I'm waiting for the next issue in anticipation.

[hunter_peterson]

Atomic Robo is always great and fun. It deserves a lot more press than it gets. Perhaps if it moved to Image it would have a higher profile?

[Hypocee]

The thin-lined, flower-like glare patterns of two spaceship headlights look eerie and threatening in translucent acid turquoise against a purplish desert night.

Do be advised, just for your own future comprehension, that's not a spaceship but a submarine - the antagonists' previously established supersub cruiser-carrier - floating at the bottom of the exact-opposite-of-a-desert Robo just jumped into and sank through, whose airlock he comes out of soaking wet.

[rolacka]

Atomic Robo is always great and fun. It deserves a lot more press than it gets. Perhaps if it moved to Image it would have a higher profile?

I think it would get a higher profile with Image. It deserves more press than most comics certainly.

[Hypocee]

https://twitter.com/jennifer_cheng_/...67813531774977

For the record, I was genuinely just trying to clear up any confusion that might have affected your/readers' enjoyment of the story. "What? We're in the desert now? And where'd this spaceship come from? Now we're back at sea? How'd we get here, and where'd the spaceship go?" The first draft with simple wording sounded angry/outraged so I tried to lighten it with a sympathetic joke about glitches in jumping the gutters and the visual similarity of seafloor and desert, while avoiding any possibility of snark. I failed epically and evidently wrapped it around to snark by another route. Sorry, that was not my intent!

[Jennifer_Cheng]

Hi Hypocee!

My reading for this issue was sloppy and I goofed, even though I liked it a lot. I've only been a reviewer for about 2 months so far and I figure it's bound to happen eventually.

I saw that you had joined recently and I figured that my error had outraged you so much that you de-lurked. Obviously, you were no troll.

It was the "reading comprehension" bit that stung. But you were totally right.

I also caught some grief for my Happy! review this week, although I am going to refrain from responding in that comments thread because besides missing the fact of my gender, I don't think they have anything constructive or factual to offer me.

Anyway, I am glad to be a new fan of Atomic Robo and I am also glad that careful readers like you keep a new reviewer like me honest. I should have known that you were following Wegener's Twitter feed.

Thanks for commenting again to clarify. It did make me feel better, though obviously I will still continue trying to be a better reader/reviewer!

Best,
Jen Cheng

[Hypocee]

Yah, there was never any draft that contained the phrase "reading comprehension" because there is no situation where that's not a slur on ability or motive. "Comprehension of the physical flow of events" survived almost five seconds before it got truncated, bypassing "understanding" and "information". In the end I had to hope it was separated enough from its host phrase, but it wasn't. I'm sure le bon mot will occur to me in a couple weeks.

Words. Man. Y'know? They have no loyalty at all. It's a reason I like them, but also a reason I'm glad I don't wrangle 'em in public for a living. Best of luck with that.