Action Dude 1

by Andy Riley

First name . . . Action. Second name . . . Dude. What would happen if you put Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham and Die Hard-era Bruce Willis in a bucket and stirred them together with a big stick? You'd get something like Action Dude. That's his real name. He used to be Charlie Munderdrew, but he changed it.Action Dude lives for danger and excitement. He's always jumping out of helicopters, crashing ships, running along the tops of cranes and walking out of buildings just before they explode. He's nine years old and also the bravest action hero there ever was. Except that he's terrified of spiders. (But don't ever tell anyone that!)When a theme park full of robots goes haywire, it's up to Action Dude to come to the rescue. After all, no one else is crazy enough to just walk in there and save everyone.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 9, 2022

About the author

Andy Riley is a cartoonist and scriptwriter from Britain.
He drew a weekly strip cartoon for The Observer Magazine called Roasted, which is also collected in hardback edition. So far his books have sold around one and a half million copies and have been published in eighteen countries, producing calendar, greetings card and poster spin-offs. Lucky Heather is his self-published mini-comic.
His comedy scriptwriting is done in partnership with Kevin Cecil. They have won two BAFTAS, for the sitcom Black Books in 2005 and the animated special Robbie The Reindeer in 2000. They created and wrote the sitcoms The Great Outdoors and Hyperdrive for the BBC, and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel. Other television writing credits include Little Britain, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Come Fly With Me, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack The Pony, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Bob and Margaret, Spitting Image, Harry and Paul, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round, Man Stroke Woman and Big Train. Their Radio 4 panel game, The 99p Challenge, won a Sony silver award.
As well as writing comedy, they are experienced writers of feature-length animation: their credits include Gnomeo and Juliet (released February 2011) and The Pirates! (in production at Aardman). They did an uncredited rewrite of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride.
Andy is originally from Aylesbury but now lives in London. He used to be the stage dancer for The Pod, Julian Barratt’s comedy techno band which was the forerunner of The Mighty Boosh. His hobbies include urban canoeing.
Despite rival claims on the internet, Andy Riley is the true originator of the tradition of cross-dressing at the Towersey folk festival.

Reviews

[Ümit Mutlu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sonunda çıktı, Olay Adam'ım ^_^

[Joseph Ryan-Daniel]

This book is about a young hero called Charlie who is called by the mayor to save people trapped in a volcano in a theme park after the robots went rogue and would attack anyone they saw. He went in with a park worker who "escaped." They also found a young girl who got separated from her dad and didn't reach the volcano. Together, they reached the volcano 🌋 and saved everyone. However, it turns out it was the park worker who malfunctioned the robots and tried to kill everyone

[Matt Glaviano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a lot to say about this one. It was fine.

Personal bonus: I didn't know it was going to be set in an amusement park! There's even a map of Prehistoric Land. Riley's use of the (greatest possible type of) setting is OK. At least Action Dude gets to explore different parts of the park.

Biggest takeaway: I get way too excited about books set in amusement parks.

[Güntülü Yılmaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kıkırdaya kıkırdaya okudum. Pamuk şekere karşı suç işleyen kral, bu arada bence de pamuk şekerler sihirle büyüyorlar, hırçın robot mağara insanları derken nasıl bittiğini anlamadığım bir çizgi romandı. Sırıtmaktan çenem ağrıdı. Ruby'nin maceraya dahil oluşu ve yarattığı tezatlık, korkuların üstüne gitmek, sondaki DEVASA sürpriz derken tabii ki sonuna geldik. Adı Olay, soyadı Adam, ben sana yürekten inanıyorum. Çünkü sen benim hayatımı hem zorlaştırıp hem renklendiren tuhaf erkek kardeşimsin.

(Film jeneriği hilesini tabii ki denedim, yataktan düşüyordum kendime gülerken.)

Gülmeyi unutan yetişkinlere, kendi kahkahalarını çok sevenlere, muzipliğini hiç elden bırakmayan ve hep gülmesini umduğum bissürü çocuğa tavsiye edeceğim hep.

[Mairéad · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5/5 I'm definitely not target audience here so I'm putting my educator hat on and rounding up my rating to try and be fair to the author who has clearly designed this to be enjoyed by readers aged 9-12. I can see how the accessible text and illustration style would particularly appeal to reluctant readers in this age category but I feel there are better versions of this kind of graphic novel so I can't rate it any more highly than 2/5!

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

First name Action, second name Dude. When danger arises, the mayor turns to this nine-year-old, much to the chagrin of the local police. In this book Action Dude takes on ye olde theme park full of malfunctioning prehistoric-themed robots. The story is over the top. The characters are kind of dumb. Perfect for fans of Dog Man. I do question the limited color palette. I don't find it appealing to look at.

[Kaitlyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very silly and enjoyable. Definitely a graphic novel kids would like, especially if they are fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

[Inge · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was ok. I'm not very caught in it.
It was very basic and very narrow minded.

[Deniz Baysal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deniz & Doğa 4.5