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Robamapocalypse
In a dystopian future where Barack Obama is lord and emperor of the only city left on earth after the zombie apocalypse, one young man must fight his way through a tournament pitting zombie against remote controlled zombie if he hopes to stop the evil, half-cyborg dictator from destroying Steel City and the rest of the fabled Obamamerica beyond.
Time traveling terrorists, giant robot zombies made of zombies, and Barack Obama like you've never seen him before are but a few of the twists and turns that make Robamapocalypse one of the weirdest, most action packed bizarro stories you'll ever lay your unsuspecting eyeballs on. This election year, Barack Obama is a giant fucking robot.
Time traveling terrorists, giant robot zombies made of zombies, and Barack Obama like you've never seen him before are but a few of the twists and turns that make Robamapocalypse one of the weirdest, most action packed bizarro stories you'll ever lay your unsuspecting eyeballs on. This election year, Barack Obama is a giant fucking robot.
79 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 13, 2012
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Kevin Strange
41 books188 followersKevin Strange is a two time nominee of the Wonderland Book Award for excellence in bizarro fiction, recipient of the 2014 editor's choice award in the Lewis and Clark college literary magazine The Peppermint Rooster Review and his short story THE TWINS was listed on TangentOnline.com's 2015 year end recommended reading list.
He is the author of 18 books, and the writer/director of 7 films. He loves schlocky B-movies, cult fiction and Iron Maiden records.
He is the author of 18 books, and the writer/director of 7 films. He loves schlocky B-movies, cult fiction and Iron Maiden records.
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October 3, 2025
Obama…I always knew he wanted to be the unchallenged lord of all the lands…never fooled me for a second. Rejuvenation chambers, making his own beer, and, somehow, maintaining a pretty snazzy afro…this whole thing was screwed since Jump Street. I kept picturing Lord Zed from the Power Rangers, just with an afro. Hilarious! So, the story followed our ex-president, who was now a robotic, man/monster hybrid, who also absorbed an evil god’s powers and oversaw a city encompassed by a giant metal dome. Nothing too crazy. Oh, and there’s a zombie fighting league. And a resistance. And terrorists. And wrestlers dropping elbows all over the place. The ending just went nuclear, too. No spoilers, but the whole book was a ridiculous, mind-blowing, uber-fun spectacle. God bless Kevin Strange.
January 16, 2013
Okay, first off, I want to say that don't let the 2 stars throw you off - that is purely because this book isn't my cup of tea, not because there's anything wrong with it.
It's kind of like reading a graphic novel without the pictures, which is actually a neat concept, I'm just not into gory stuff the way the author is, but I like to try new things, so there you have it.
Some things that I did like were that the author was very clear in the introduction that he was not making a political commentary - which is good because a) I don't really want to read a political commentary in most formats, let alone this particular variety, and b) because it allowed me to enjoy certain aspects of the book for what it was, rather than what it might have been trying to say (which I would have been analyzing pointlessly along the way had he not been clear about his motives.)
Give it a shot - it's a quick read, fast-paced, fun, and the story is so far out it's kind of gratuitously awesome. Just a bit too gory for me.
:)
It's kind of like reading a graphic novel without the pictures, which is actually a neat concept, I'm just not into gory stuff the way the author is, but I like to try new things, so there you have it.
Some things that I did like were that the author was very clear in the introduction that he was not making a political commentary - which is good because a) I don't really want to read a political commentary in most formats, let alone this particular variety, and b) because it allowed me to enjoy certain aspects of the book for what it was, rather than what it might have been trying to say (which I would have been analyzing pointlessly along the way had he not been clear about his motives.)
Give it a shot - it's a quick read, fast-paced, fun, and the story is so far out it's kind of gratuitously awesome. Just a bit too gory for me.
:)
November 27, 2012
Put down your political agendas and pick up Kevin Strange's ROBAMAPOCALYPSE. This gem has got it all; zombies, giant robots, gladiator games, evil dictators and time travelers to name a few. This is part Battle Bots, part Night of the Living Dead, part WWE and part Democratic National Convention.
Talk about value. ROBAMAPOCALYPSE is worth every miniscule penny on the word your going to shell out. This ain't War and Peace and you shouldn't expect it to be. What you get is a fast paced, page turner that is all about the seat-of-your-pants action. Don't worry about being left or right wing either. This is enjoyable to read in Red AND Blue states.
If your interested in taking a taste of Kevin Strange, start here. Then go check out everything else published by his StrangeHouse Books. A light heated rock 'em sock 'em monster romp. You will not be disappointed!
Talk about value. ROBAMAPOCALYPSE is worth every miniscule penny on the word your going to shell out. This ain't War and Peace and you shouldn't expect it to be. What you get is a fast paced, page turner that is all about the seat-of-your-pants action. Don't worry about being left or right wing either. This is enjoyable to read in Red AND Blue states.
If your interested in taking a taste of Kevin Strange, start here. Then go check out everything else published by his StrangeHouse Books. A light heated rock 'em sock 'em monster romp. You will not be disappointed!
October 20, 2012
What if Obama was some robot humanoid creature that wormed his way into being a supreme, and oppressive ruler of a domed city after a hellacious zombie outbreak wiped out the majority of the country? Got an idea in your head of how that might play out? Well then, erase that tepid shit from your simplistic thoughts because what you conjure up will be mundane compared to the aggressive brain fucking you are about to endure! A beautiful concoction of political commentary, radiation dipped zombies, Lovecraftian beasties,rock'em sock'em robots, and half-mast chubbies. Your cup of tea? Then go read it now. What are you waiting for? Quit being a dick, damn.
January 22, 2013
A lot of folks think it's all about politics, about democrats vs. republicans in America's case. Some of us on the other hand know better. Robamapocalypse is my first full-length read of the works of my Madison County neighbor Kevin Strange, and I am pleased to report that it's not about dem-rep politics at all; it's far more interesting. It's also funny as hell.
Now I'm not specifically a zombie aficionado, which is one of Mr. Strange's fortes. My reading - and writing - tends to be considerably less visceral than his. But we perceive the same cosmic truths, at least as I interpret this highly entertaining tale of flesh as Play-Doh and obedience to lies cast as truth by a supremist military state.
Oh, and we share another interest - battles between giant creatures. Too bad Toho is so legendarily uptight with its trademarks or I bet he could give us a hell of a Godzilla vs. Rodan.
But back to the book: it's a lot of fun, a fast read and I will absolutely not give any spoilers away as to whether it's an up or down tale or just how complex a plot can be woven around a gory battle in a huge zombie fighting arena. I highly recommend this book and will be reading more of Mr. Strange's work in the future.
Now I'm not specifically a zombie aficionado, which is one of Mr. Strange's fortes. My reading - and writing - tends to be considerably less visceral than his. But we perceive the same cosmic truths, at least as I interpret this highly entertaining tale of flesh as Play-Doh and obedience to lies cast as truth by a supremist military state.
Oh, and we share another interest - battles between giant creatures. Too bad Toho is so legendarily uptight with its trademarks or I bet he could give us a hell of a Godzilla vs. Rodan.
But back to the book: it's a lot of fun, a fast read and I will absolutely not give any spoilers away as to whether it's an up or down tale or just how complex a plot can be woven around a gory battle in a huge zombie fighting arena. I highly recommend this book and will be reading more of Mr. Strange's work in the future.
February 10, 2013
Robamapocalypse Now!
In Kevin Strange's bizarro novella "Robamapocalypse," we finally learn the answer to the age old question of: Can professional wrestling moves save the world from tyranny and the zombie apocalypse?
As any regular contributor to short story anthologies will tell you, sometimes a writer just gets swept up in a story and the damn thing takes on a life of its own - and before you know it, the story has surpassed the publisher's allowable maximum word count and, in some cases, expanded beyond the main scope of the anthology.
I believe that is what happened to Kevin Strange as he was creating "Robamapocalypse," at least that's what he implies in his Author's Note at the beginning of the book. When Kevin and his business partner D.F. Noble, who operate StrangeHouse Books, discussed the concept of the anthology that would later become "Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!", Kevin will admit that he wasn't overly thrilled with the idea. "I'm not particularly a fan of the zombie fiction genre," he writes in the Author's Note. "In fact, I loathe it."
Kevin believes the zombie genre is "played out, trite, boring, and in most cases, downright bad." So, I ask you, what better person can you think of to write a science-fiction/horror/bizarro zombie story than someone who loathes the cliché-ridden formulaic genre? Kevin's giant zombie robot story concept soon towered over the shorter stories of the anthology and warranted itself as a stand-alone publication (although a sneak preview of "Robamapocalypse" was featured in the back of "Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!").
Kevin's story is about a future society, contained within an impenetrable dome, and ruled by an evil cyborg. The dictator controls the people of Steel City by mercilessly killing anyone who questions his authority and by supplying the citizenry with morphology-controlling drugs. The tale focuses on an annual event, reminiscent of the gladiator battles of Ancient Rome, called the Zombie Fighting Championships. The gamer-inspired event typically features a select number of zombie-robot creators who simultaneously battle a zombie hoard, and one another, in order to win a lifetime supply of the expensive Zombo drug. But the final battle, as described in the book, is infiltrated by current anarchists and time-traveling insurgents from the future, who are out to kill the fearless leader.
What Kevin does so brilliantly in the book, is that the entire story is told almost exclusively through the complex battle sequence, which encompasses the majority of the twisted tale. Multiple multi-tasking minions, simultaneously performing multiple actions, are intricately interwoven through the use of short segmented scenes, like movie clips, which keep the plot unfurling at a break-neck (literally) and exciting pace.
Kevin claims that "Robamapocalypse" is intended to be apolitical, so we'll take his word for it that the megalomaniacal actions of the curiously-named tyrannical leader is not based on the policies of any current leader, that the mandatory governmental Zombo drug program has nothing to do with current socialized medicine programs, and that the government's omnipotent control of all high-powered weaponry has nothing to do with current controversies surrounding constitutional gun rights.
Basically, literature-loving fans of zombies, robots, science-fiction, mixed martial arts or martial law, will all find Kevin Strange's satirical masterpiece "Robamapocalypse" a refreshing change from the mainstream fiction that permeates their bookshelves.
In conclusion, if you're curious about where this country could be going if there were no presidential term limits, then read "Robamapocalypse" now!
In Kevin Strange's bizarro novella "Robamapocalypse," we finally learn the answer to the age old question of: Can professional wrestling moves save the world from tyranny and the zombie apocalypse?
As any regular contributor to short story anthologies will tell you, sometimes a writer just gets swept up in a story and the damn thing takes on a life of its own - and before you know it, the story has surpassed the publisher's allowable maximum word count and, in some cases, expanded beyond the main scope of the anthology.
I believe that is what happened to Kevin Strange as he was creating "Robamapocalypse," at least that's what he implies in his Author's Note at the beginning of the book. When Kevin and his business partner D.F. Noble, who operate StrangeHouse Books, discussed the concept of the anthology that would later become "Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!", Kevin will admit that he wasn't overly thrilled with the idea. "I'm not particularly a fan of the zombie fiction genre," he writes in the Author's Note. "In fact, I loathe it."
Kevin believes the zombie genre is "played out, trite, boring, and in most cases, downright bad." So, I ask you, what better person can you think of to write a science-fiction/horror/bizarro zombie story than someone who loathes the cliché-ridden formulaic genre? Kevin's giant zombie robot story concept soon towered over the shorter stories of the anthology and warranted itself as a stand-alone publication (although a sneak preview of "Robamapocalypse" was featured in the back of "Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!").
Kevin's story is about a future society, contained within an impenetrable dome, and ruled by an evil cyborg. The dictator controls the people of Steel City by mercilessly killing anyone who questions his authority and by supplying the citizenry with morphology-controlling drugs. The tale focuses on an annual event, reminiscent of the gladiator battles of Ancient Rome, called the Zombie Fighting Championships. The gamer-inspired event typically features a select number of zombie-robot creators who simultaneously battle a zombie hoard, and one another, in order to win a lifetime supply of the expensive Zombo drug. But the final battle, as described in the book, is infiltrated by current anarchists and time-traveling insurgents from the future, who are out to kill the fearless leader.
What Kevin does so brilliantly in the book, is that the entire story is told almost exclusively through the complex battle sequence, which encompasses the majority of the twisted tale. Multiple multi-tasking minions, simultaneously performing multiple actions, are intricately interwoven through the use of short segmented scenes, like movie clips, which keep the plot unfurling at a break-neck (literally) and exciting pace.
Kevin claims that "Robamapocalypse" is intended to be apolitical, so we'll take his word for it that the megalomaniacal actions of the curiously-named tyrannical leader is not based on the policies of any current leader, that the mandatory governmental Zombo drug program has nothing to do with current socialized medicine programs, and that the government's omnipotent control of all high-powered weaponry has nothing to do with current controversies surrounding constitutional gun rights.
Basically, literature-loving fans of zombies, robots, science-fiction, mixed martial arts or martial law, will all find Kevin Strange's satirical masterpiece "Robamapocalypse" a refreshing change from the mainstream fiction that permeates their bookshelves.
In conclusion, if you're curious about where this country could be going if there were no presidential term limits, then read "Robamapocalypse" now!
July 6, 2013
None stop action packed! A UFC meets Zombie invasion.
You know how a lot of people think about Obama now, imagine him still president almost 2 decades from now. But in the form of a giant mechanical robot. And trapped us all in side a new city he now calls "Steel City" Feeding us a zombie virus vaccine...My god the horror.
Kevin Strange once again takes the crazy stuff out of his head and places us into a Robama ruled world with a crap load of action and zombie guts. Not bad for a guy who doesn't care for Zombie genre.
You know how a lot of people think about Obama now, imagine him still president almost 2 decades from now. But in the form of a giant mechanical robot. And trapped us all in side a new city he now calls "Steel City" Feeding us a zombie virus vaccine...My god the horror.
Kevin Strange once again takes the crazy stuff out of his head and places us into a Robama ruled world with a crap load of action and zombie guts. Not bad for a guy who doesn't care for Zombie genre.
May 8, 2013
Robots? Zombies? Futuristic setting? All loves of mine when taken separately, but mix them together and I'm not usually a fan. At first this book was not my cup of tea, in fact at the beginning all I could say is "it's well written." But that mad man Kevin Strange ended up winning me over in the later 2/3 of the book. Left me wanting more, once finished. Bravo Mr. Strange for taking a hater and making him fall in love with something he usually can't stand. Great book and the best mixed subject book I've ever read. Take that as a complement, because usually I hate them. :-)
May 13, 2014
A bizarro take on zombie apocalypses, Kevin Strange integrates time travel, trailer trash, giant robots, out-of-body experiences, evil entities and presidents in a non-stop whirlwind story that will leave you breathless. A great read for those who enjoy satiric science fiction.
June 18, 2013
Giant robot and zombies in a post apocalypse book. This book is the height of all things epic when you're strange!
May 14, 2016
The following is a combination review of three books by Kevin Strange: The Humans under The Bed, Robamapocalypse, and Vampire Guts in Nuke Town. This review can be found on the Goodreads Page for all three books.
Indie authors have it rough. Even though, in my opinion, some of the most interesting and experimental writings are being done and distributed by independent authors and small indie presses, it still is passed up by most readers for the mostly mainstream pablum called the New York Times Fiction List. That leaves the struggling indie writer to promote his books in any way possible. It is not unusual to see them giving away or selling their books for pittance. I can’t complain too much. Some of my favorite novels of late came from promotions like that. Books that I would never have known existed. Word of mouth becomes a very important tool for the independent author.
But Kevin Strange, an entrepreneur of the most bizarre, did something a few weeks ago I have never seen. For one day only, he placed all 11 of his Kindle books on Amazon free for the taking. Every single one. Of course I couldn’t resist and downloaded three of them. In hindsight, it may have been stupid not to download all eleven. However, I really wanted to find the time to read them. You have not seen my pile, virtual and real, of to-read books! Besides, I may be a cheap bastard but I am not a greedy one. Despite our reputations, we book reviewers do buy books on occasion!
Strange seems to have developed his own weird little niche. He focuses heavily on that area of the weird called Body Horror, the terror of body transformation and biological atrocities. Mutants abound in his book and they usually take place in a much changed post-apocalyptic future. I occasionally call books like this “graphic novels with words” to set the tone of action-packed prose that encourage a visual mindset while reading. Kevin Strange is not graphic novel. He is pure comic book. His style can be described as EC Comics meet DC Comics meet R. Crumb. It is impossible not to have vivid and disturbing images bombard your head while reading his works. His reliance on visual descriptions belies his background as a filmmaker. His writing is fast, rude and sometimes very crude with both violent and sexual imagery abounding. Yet there is something totally fun about it on the level of a roller coaster ride through a slaughter house. If that imagery turns you off, you might want to look elsewhere for your reading thrills. But if a roller coaster ride through a slaughter house sounds like a blast, meet Mr. Strange.
The first book I read was The Humans under the Bed. I picked it first because it was a), short and b) sounded cute. For the first few numbers of pages, it was cute. It is five hundred years after the monster/human wars which the monsters have won. No humans have been seen since then and humans have become the “monsters under the bed” for baby monsters…until some very different and modified humans appear under the bed of two monster tykes, Dexantheon Jr. and Willex. The emergence is the beginning of the next human vs monster wars and it is up to the monster kids to save the day.
It is adorable and gross at the same time. It is a children story for very weird children or for adults who haven’t grown up…and I say the “adult” part fully knowing it applies to me. We get battle after battle yet this is a book in which we root for those cut little monsters even if those tykes are described as “a Twinkie stood on end” and ”a grotesque fly if it’s been cooked in a microwave and left out in the heat to spoil.” If anything I wanted more about cute monsters and less about slipping on intestines. For more of this novella the battle and violence take over but it is incredible imaginative violence and gore with the moral that even monsters have a right to defend their world. Take that, Humans! Rating it was a little tricky since the cuteness and the violence didn’t always jive together for me. But I was still thoroughly entranced. Four stars worth of entrancement.
Robamapocalyse, on the other hand, frustrated me. First of all I am not that enthralled with Bizarro books that involve real life characters. Jeff Burk with his Shatner novels is the only one that really pulls it off . The problem is made ten-fold when you take the president of the United State your target even if you make it clear there are no politics involved in the telling. The author does say that and deliver. Yet I feel it still took away from the plot. In this wild and complex work, Lord Obama is ruling the world in the far future as a robotic mutant. Robot Obama is ruling the only human city on earth still existing after the zombie apocalypse. It’s not easy. As Lord Obama says, “Maybe accepting the consciousness of an Elder God from a dark dimension totally unfathomable and incomprehensible to humankind wasn’t such a good idea.” What entails is a hodge-podge of robot warriors, zombies and American Gladiator styled death matches, Frankly it is a bit of a mess. It doesn’t really work for me. What saves it is that Strange’s imagination is first class. But in this book it is working faster than his typing, leaving his computer to gasp out of breath trying to catch up. I’m not sure but it feels like one of his earlier works. I have to give it two and a half stars. I may have given it more if I didn’t already read The Humans Under The Bed and the next book.
It is that “Next book” that kills them all. Vampire Guts in Nuke Town is a messy but exquisite marvel of Bizarro, vampire epic, and folk legend about a really grossed out human hero. The title is not just about vampire parts but also about our hero “Guts', one of the last of the humans after an apocalypse caused by a plague that leaves vampires the rulers of earth and the few humans who survive haunted by their own mutant transformations. Guts is a true anti-hero haunted by his past yet pulled on by some unseen force to rid the world of the vampire scourge. Vampire Guts et al may be a vampire tale but the author doesn’t “do” vampire. He has created a totally different and fairly disgusting variety. This is the author’s strength. The traditional creatures of horror literature just aren’t horrible enough for him. He tricked them out and revs them up to give the reader a totally weirded out version. Like the first two books I read, Vampire Guts never lets up on the action and violence. Yet it leaves the other two books disappearing in the rear view mirror and eating dust. Five stars. Easy.
So what we have with Kevin Strange is a man with a vision, one that seems to delight in mutants, apocalypses and scattered body parts. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but there is something that is inspired about his prose that makes you not mind being in a world with humans under the bed, vampire’s vs human mutants, or a robot Barack Obama fighting zombies at least for a few hours of reading. Who cares if it is a slaughter house? Let’s ride that roller coaster!
Indie authors have it rough. Even though, in my opinion, some of the most interesting and experimental writings are being done and distributed by independent authors and small indie presses, it still is passed up by most readers for the mostly mainstream pablum called the New York Times Fiction List. That leaves the struggling indie writer to promote his books in any way possible. It is not unusual to see them giving away or selling their books for pittance. I can’t complain too much. Some of my favorite novels of late came from promotions like that. Books that I would never have known existed. Word of mouth becomes a very important tool for the independent author.
But Kevin Strange, an entrepreneur of the most bizarre, did something a few weeks ago I have never seen. For one day only, he placed all 11 of his Kindle books on Amazon free for the taking. Every single one. Of course I couldn’t resist and downloaded three of them. In hindsight, it may have been stupid not to download all eleven. However, I really wanted to find the time to read them. You have not seen my pile, virtual and real, of to-read books! Besides, I may be a cheap bastard but I am not a greedy one. Despite our reputations, we book reviewers do buy books on occasion!
Strange seems to have developed his own weird little niche. He focuses heavily on that area of the weird called Body Horror, the terror of body transformation and biological atrocities. Mutants abound in his book and they usually take place in a much changed post-apocalyptic future. I occasionally call books like this “graphic novels with words” to set the tone of action-packed prose that encourage a visual mindset while reading. Kevin Strange is not graphic novel. He is pure comic book. His style can be described as EC Comics meet DC Comics meet R. Crumb. It is impossible not to have vivid and disturbing images bombard your head while reading his works. His reliance on visual descriptions belies his background as a filmmaker. His writing is fast, rude and sometimes very crude with both violent and sexual imagery abounding. Yet there is something totally fun about it on the level of a roller coaster ride through a slaughter house. If that imagery turns you off, you might want to look elsewhere for your reading thrills. But if a roller coaster ride through a slaughter house sounds like a blast, meet Mr. Strange.
The first book I read was The Humans under the Bed. I picked it first because it was a), short and b) sounded cute. For the first few numbers of pages, it was cute. It is five hundred years after the monster/human wars which the monsters have won. No humans have been seen since then and humans have become the “monsters under the bed” for baby monsters…until some very different and modified humans appear under the bed of two monster tykes, Dexantheon Jr. and Willex. The emergence is the beginning of the next human vs monster wars and it is up to the monster kids to save the day.
It is adorable and gross at the same time. It is a children story for very weird children or for adults who haven’t grown up…and I say the “adult” part fully knowing it applies to me. We get battle after battle yet this is a book in which we root for those cut little monsters even if those tykes are described as “a Twinkie stood on end” and ”a grotesque fly if it’s been cooked in a microwave and left out in the heat to spoil.” If anything I wanted more about cute monsters and less about slipping on intestines. For more of this novella the battle and violence take over but it is incredible imaginative violence and gore with the moral that even monsters have a right to defend their world. Take that, Humans! Rating it was a little tricky since the cuteness and the violence didn’t always jive together for me. But I was still thoroughly entranced. Four stars worth of entrancement.
Robamapocalyse, on the other hand, frustrated me. First of all I am not that enthralled with Bizarro books that involve real life characters. Jeff Burk with his Shatner novels is the only one that really pulls it off . The problem is made ten-fold when you take the president of the United State your target even if you make it clear there are no politics involved in the telling. The author does say that and deliver. Yet I feel it still took away from the plot. In this wild and complex work, Lord Obama is ruling the world in the far future as a robotic mutant. Robot Obama is ruling the only human city on earth still existing after the zombie apocalypse. It’s not easy. As Lord Obama says, “Maybe accepting the consciousness of an Elder God from a dark dimension totally unfathomable and incomprehensible to humankind wasn’t such a good idea.” What entails is a hodge-podge of robot warriors, zombies and American Gladiator styled death matches, Frankly it is a bit of a mess. It doesn’t really work for me. What saves it is that Strange’s imagination is first class. But in this book it is working faster than his typing, leaving his computer to gasp out of breath trying to catch up. I’m not sure but it feels like one of his earlier works. I have to give it two and a half stars. I may have given it more if I didn’t already read The Humans Under The Bed and the next book.
It is that “Next book” that kills them all. Vampire Guts in Nuke Town is a messy but exquisite marvel of Bizarro, vampire epic, and folk legend about a really grossed out human hero. The title is not just about vampire parts but also about our hero “Guts', one of the last of the humans after an apocalypse caused by a plague that leaves vampires the rulers of earth and the few humans who survive haunted by their own mutant transformations. Guts is a true anti-hero haunted by his past yet pulled on by some unseen force to rid the world of the vampire scourge. Vampire Guts et al may be a vampire tale but the author doesn’t “do” vampire. He has created a totally different and fairly disgusting variety. This is the author’s strength. The traditional creatures of horror literature just aren’t horrible enough for him. He tricked them out and revs them up to give the reader a totally weirded out version. Like the first two books I read, Vampire Guts never lets up on the action and violence. Yet it leaves the other two books disappearing in the rear view mirror and eating dust. Five stars. Easy.
So what we have with Kevin Strange is a man with a vision, one that seems to delight in mutants, apocalypses and scattered body parts. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but there is something that is inspired about his prose that makes you not mind being in a world with humans under the bed, vampire’s vs human mutants, or a robot Barack Obama fighting zombies at least for a few hours of reading. Who cares if it is a slaughter house? Let’s ride that roller coaster!
April 23, 2014
Let me start out by saying, I don't usually finish a book in one sitting. Instead I tend to take it in little by little, savoring it. But that didn't happen when I started reading Robamapocalypse, I devoured it!
This tale from Kevin Strange is a lean, mean, little book, that starts with a bang, explodes into the action, and doesn't really let up until the end. If there is any fat in the story at all it comes from the proud parents of one of the combatants watching their son battle on TV. The two bicker and fight throughout to a hilarious and interesting end. The whole thing reminding me of Tokyo Zombie meets BATTLEBOTS held at WRESTLEMANIA! In short it is a crazy, wild ride of meshed up ideas that should not work but somehow does. So what the hell is it all about, you ask? Let me try to explain...
Barack Obama, he's a robot...well mostly. He is also the ruler over the only city left on Earth. Why? Simple... The Apocalypse.
Hence the title of the book. There are also zombies, robots, zombie robots, mutants, men, and madness. Seriously Just go read it. Trust me.
Interestingly enough, this is not the only book planned for the beloved Commander-In-Chief; Kevin Strange, the author of this zany, zombie tale, of robots and Presidents has plans for more, And I had the opportunity to chat with him about those plans. Kevin Strange had this to say:
"The next one, AfroBama will explore the origin of the maligned entity that possesses what's left of Obama's human body. And the third, Obamageddon, will follow the exploits of Robobama on the planet from the end of this book."
So like the Star Wars Trilogy, this series starts in the middle. That to me is a good sign, and I can not wait for the other two installments of the "Robamapocalypsology."
HAIL TO THE CHIEF BABY!
This tale from Kevin Strange is a lean, mean, little book, that starts with a bang, explodes into the action, and doesn't really let up until the end. If there is any fat in the story at all it comes from the proud parents of one of the combatants watching their son battle on TV. The two bicker and fight throughout to a hilarious and interesting end. The whole thing reminding me of Tokyo Zombie meets BATTLEBOTS held at WRESTLEMANIA! In short it is a crazy, wild ride of meshed up ideas that should not work but somehow does. So what the hell is it all about, you ask? Let me try to explain...
Barack Obama, he's a robot...well mostly. He is also the ruler over the only city left on Earth. Why? Simple... The Apocalypse.
Hence the title of the book. There are also zombies, robots, zombie robots, mutants, men, and madness. Seriously Just go read it. Trust me.
Interestingly enough, this is not the only book planned for the beloved Commander-In-Chief; Kevin Strange, the author of this zany, zombie tale, of robots and Presidents has plans for more, And I had the opportunity to chat with him about those plans. Kevin Strange had this to say:
"The next one, AfroBama will explore the origin of the maligned entity that possesses what's left of Obama's human body. And the third, Obamageddon, will follow the exploits of Robobama on the planet from the end of this book."
So like the Star Wars Trilogy, this series starts in the middle. That to me is a good sign, and I can not wait for the other two installments of the "Robamapocalypsology."
HAIL TO THE CHIEF BABY!
February 17, 2013
Starring President Obama As Darth Vader
The concept is simple. In the zombie plagued future, President Obama has become a Darth Vader-like inhuman thing who occasionally climbs into a giant Voltron-like robot version of himself and smashes everything. This book is action packed from start to finish. There are a couple of potentially disappointing factors. First, there's a lot of grammar issues. Second, Obama is really only Obama in name only. There's not really any Obama-like characterization and there isn't even much history of how he went from well-liked president to evil overlord. Actually, there's not much character building in this story at all. That would just slow down the action, right?
The concept is simple. In the zombie plagued future, President Obama has become a Darth Vader-like inhuman thing who occasionally climbs into a giant Voltron-like robot version of himself and smashes everything. This book is action packed from start to finish. There are a couple of potentially disappointing factors. First, there's a lot of grammar issues. Second, Obama is really only Obama in name only. There's not really any Obama-like characterization and there isn't even much history of how he went from well-liked president to evil overlord. Actually, there's not much character building in this story at all. That would just slow down the action, right?
July 15, 2014
This was bizarre to say the least, but not in a bad way. I can't say too much about it cause the main premise is not too in-depth, giving it a simple story with plenty of room for black humor and action packed scenes. I was a pretty big fan of the characters, despite not liking the characters for who they were, more enjoying the portrayal of them in such a world. Obama's character was especially interesting, as you don't really know what his deal is until you're most of the way through the book, and its better that way imo. It was a nice quick entertaining read and definitely worth the time to check out a story of a ridiculous future.
September 4, 2013
Take Rock-em Sock-em robots, and replace them with zombies modified with extra body parts and weapons. Except it's not just two zombies, it's a bunch of them. Throw in a bunch of radioactive zombies and have the fight announced by a couple of WWE guys. The whole thing is presided over by a cyborg Barack Obama, who also has a giant robot version of himself called Robobama. Got all that in your head? Well, that still doesn't cover how crazy this book is. The best way to get your mind around it is to just read it. It will change you.
July 31, 2013
This has to be one of the funnest zombie-involving books I've read in a while. It sounds like the author isn't much more for zombie fiction than I am, and maybe that's why he packed in the all sorts of other weirdness that really made this one sing to me. Part action, part conspiracy, part a dozen other frankenstein's monster sorts of things, this book was a great time. I've never seen a zombie-related book quite this strange. Yeah, laugh at that line for a bit if you can stand the pun.
June 13, 2013
I haven't read a lot of bizarro fiction, but plan to read more. Loved Kevin Stranges' fast-paced, gory, zombie, dystopian, totally screwed up story! The only thing that bothered me was that it was based on a character called Lord Obama. Kinda wish this character was just anybody....anybody but Obama! Otherwise I loved this introduction into the bizarro world!
June 15, 2013
This was my first Kevin Strange book. I got it during a free promo. I enjoyed this and will pick up more from the author in the future. I liked the style and flow of the writing The story was fun and twisted. Cotton Candy is next.
March 25, 2018
Reading that title and knowing a bit of the writers political leanings you’d assume this to be a political satire aimed at Barack Obama, but nah, only reason he’s the title figure of his book seem to be because he was the guy currently in charge.
This novella, like everything Kevin Strange writes is a blast, with the events taking place always being turned up to eleven. It is however also a view into a future where government lies and the controlling of the masses has gone way overboard, without touching the usual cornerstones and cliches of dystopian fiction.
Oh and it’s a story about gladiatorial combat and robot pro-wrestling, let’s not forget about that, haha!
This novella, like everything Kevin Strange writes is a blast, with the events taking place always being turned up to eleven. It is however also a view into a future where government lies and the controlling of the masses has gone way overboard, without touching the usual cornerstones and cliches of dystopian fiction.
Oh and it’s a story about gladiatorial combat and robot pro-wrestling, let’s not forget about that, haha!
December 31, 2018
This was a very fast and fun read. The story started quick and never slowed.
December 28, 2016
May be spoilers!!!
While I have genuinely dug everything I have read of Strange's, this one gave me a mixed feeling. I enjoyed much of the humor, and the fight scenes, especially the wrestling, but the story itself fell a bit for me. I think it mostly came down to the character of Clavelle. I thought he was a weak character. He felt like a battle worn Han Solo wannabe, while his younger self was just bleh. There were also moments where I thought that shit was too convenient for those characters, especially when they make the giant zombie bot. I think if these characters had been deleted it would have made this book better, for me at least. My suggestion would have been to make Percy Jr. an accidental hero. His families story didn't really have much to do with the plot, but I think it would have been hilarious to make the fat asshole the accidental savior of humanity. I was able to read this in a day, so it kept my interest. This book was still worth the read. I did enjoy the epilogue very much. Lol. Subtract Clavelle and it would have been a homerun.
While I have genuinely dug everything I have read of Strange's, this one gave me a mixed feeling. I enjoyed much of the humor, and the fight scenes, especially the wrestling, but the story itself fell a bit for me. I think it mostly came down to the character of Clavelle. I thought he was a weak character. He felt like a battle worn Han Solo wannabe, while his younger self was just bleh. There were also moments where I thought that shit was too convenient for those characters, especially when they make the giant zombie bot. I think if these characters had been deleted it would have made this book better, for me at least. My suggestion would have been to make Percy Jr. an accidental hero. His families story didn't really have much to do with the plot, but I think it would have been hilarious to make the fat asshole the accidental savior of humanity. I was able to read this in a day, so it kept my interest. This book was still worth the read. I did enjoy the epilogue very much. Lol. Subtract Clavelle and it would have been a homerun.
June 18, 2013
There was too much fighting going on in this book for me, I space out a bit when a fight lasts more than a couple of pages.
It was well written and I'm sure if you like fight scenes between giant robots and giant zombiemen you will love this, but personally I just preferred the other parts with Percy Sr and his wife, that's real love right there. Maybe they could even get back together? :D
It was well written and I'm sure if you like fight scenes between giant robots and giant zombiemen you will love this, but personally I just preferred the other parts with Percy Sr and his wife, that's real love right there. Maybe they could even get back together? :D
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