Walking with Monsters

Roco Vargas #7

by Daniel Torres

Durante la presentación de su última novela, Roco Vargas conoce a un misterioso personaje que dice ser un revolucionario modelo de robot llamado Biomec y que es codiciado por todo el Sol. En el viaje que ambos iniciarán, Roco convencerá al biomec de que debe tener un nombre, y éste decide llamarse Dry Martini y contar su vida, que finalizará en el próximo álbum titulado "La balada de Dry Martini".

56 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2005

About the author

Daniel Torres, is a Spanish comics artist and writer, known for several series, including Rocco Vargas.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[William Holm]

Daniel Torres ii clearly in love with his character Rocco Vargas. The first book was published in 1983 and this one came out in 2005. It is not difficult to sympathize with Torres, this is one of the most elegant contemporary comics. His style is in the ligne claire tradition (going back to Hergé) and with the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man I must say that I prefer the look in the early books. The story in this installment relates to artificial intelligence which made it suiting to re-read now when Watson beat the champions of Jeopardy last week. Torres does not have any really deep thoughts to share on the subject, it more serves as a backdrop for an action/mystery plot. It ends with a cliff hanger which makes it a pity that Dark Horse have not published the second part of the story.