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Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man #1
Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero Complete Comics Vol. 1: The Newmatic Man
From the mind of New York Times Best-selling author and Eisner Award-winning author Neil Gaiman, comes Mr. Hero!
Created by the villainous Henry Phage (aka Teknophage) as a sleeper agent, steampunk robot Mr. Hero is the toast of the late 19th century carnival scene. But when an accident during a boxing match causes him to seriously harm a patron, he's boxed up and forgotten. Rediscovered 100 years later by a young street magician, Mr. Hero struggles to overcome his original programming and become the hero his new friend (and the world) needs.
This new volume (the first of a two-volume set) will collect all of the classic Mr. Hero comics for the first time anywhere.
Volume 2 of the series is planned for Winter 2017.
232 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 9, 2016
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About the author
James Vance
87 books12 followersAward-winning writer whose career has embraced forms ranging from graphic novels to live theater and journalism.
His 1988 graphic novel Kings in Disguise (with artist Dan Burr) was honored with the Eisner and Harvey awards -the Oscars of their field- and its reissue in 2006 was hailed as one of that year's ten top comics events by Time.com. His other comics work includes the whimsical Mr. Hero adventure series, and stories for the Batman, Aliens and Predator franchises.
A multiple winner of national awards for playwriting, he was commissioned to write the drama "Halls of Ivory" as an official event of the Bicentennial Celebration of the United States Constitution. His play "Stations" was chosen to represent the United States at the International Theater Festival in Monte Carlo.
He was commissioned to write a monograph in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution touring exhibit "Climbing Jacob's Ladder," and his script for the related television documentary "Hope is the Last Thing to Die" was honored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
In collaboration with his late wife Kate Worley, he has written a novel for the mystery market, and is presently at work on a new book in a similar vein. Working with artist Reed Waller, he is also shepherding Kate's all-new conclusion to the popular Omaha the Cat Dancer comics series into print.
Once again working with Dan Burr, Vance is currently completing a sequel to Kings in Disguise. Titled On the Ropes, that sequel will be issued by W.W. Norton in the near future.
His 1988 graphic novel Kings in Disguise (with artist Dan Burr) was honored with the Eisner and Harvey awards -the Oscars of their field- and its reissue in 2006 was hailed as one of that year's ten top comics events by Time.com. His other comics work includes the whimsical Mr. Hero adventure series, and stories for the Batman, Aliens and Predator franchises.
A multiple winner of national awards for playwriting, he was commissioned to write the drama "Halls of Ivory" as an official event of the Bicentennial Celebration of the United States Constitution. His play "Stations" was chosen to represent the United States at the International Theater Festival in Monte Carlo.
He was commissioned to write a monograph in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution touring exhibit "Climbing Jacob's Ladder," and his script for the related television documentary "Hope is the Last Thing to Die" was honored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
In collaboration with his late wife Kate Worley, he has written a novel for the mystery market, and is presently at work on a new book in a similar vein. Working with artist Reed Waller, he is also shepherding Kate's all-new conclusion to the popular Omaha the Cat Dancer comics series into print.
Once again working with Dan Burr, Vance is currently completing a sequel to Kings in Disguise. Titled On the Ropes, that sequel will be issued by W.W. Norton in the near future.
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August 10, 2016
There is a very big difference between something being 'Neil Gaiman's...' and being by Neil Gaiman. The latter gives you things like Sandman, The Books of Magic, and Mr. Punch. The former gets you... a steam-powered robot with two switchable heads. Iconic it is not.
It is also definitely of its time - part of the mid 90's Comics boom and bust, this typifies a few aspects of the time - the overly buff men, the over-saturated colors, the painful dialogue. It eschews a number of tropes, though; the female lead spends most of her time fully dressed, and the action is cartoony rather than grim and gritty. The concept behind the series is at least somewhat novel; dinosaur-like Teknophage created the steam-man and now wants to recapture him, using a bureaucracy of odd intermediaries while he makes cracks about eating cro-magnons. Heroine Jennifer is a spunky 20-something with no real goals in life who just sort of breezes through everything that happens. Mr. Hero is a 19th century pugilist with one head and an obnoxious know-it-all with the other head. The stories are pretty slight overall, with a bevy of increasingly bizarre characters randomly accosting the protagonists, while other villains are making bigger amorphous plans. The dialogue is occasionally painful, and the overall story is meandering, but it's not quite actively obnoxious. Just not remarkable in any way. If you want to read Neil Gaiman, this should be way down on your list (not least of which because it's not actually by him - he just provided the concept).
It is also definitely of its time - part of the mid 90's Comics boom and bust, this typifies a few aspects of the time - the overly buff men, the over-saturated colors, the painful dialogue. It eschews a number of tropes, though; the female lead spends most of her time fully dressed, and the action is cartoony rather than grim and gritty. The concept behind the series is at least somewhat novel; dinosaur-like Teknophage created the steam-man and now wants to recapture him, using a bureaucracy of odd intermediaries while he makes cracks about eating cro-magnons. Heroine Jennifer is a spunky 20-something with no real goals in life who just sort of breezes through everything that happens. Mr. Hero is a 19th century pugilist with one head and an obnoxious know-it-all with the other head. The stories are pretty slight overall, with a bevy of increasingly bizarre characters randomly accosting the protagonists, while other villains are making bigger amorphous plans. The dialogue is occasionally painful, and the overall story is meandering, but it's not quite actively obnoxious. Just not remarkable in any way. If you want to read Neil Gaiman, this should be way down on your list (not least of which because it's not actually by him - he just provided the concept).
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May 9, 2019The book Mr. hero by Nell Gaiman's is a funny and a good book. I would give this book a three to four star rating because of it hummer. One of the main reasons for the rating is the action and Events.The second reasons is He has to become and hero with his new friend. These are some of the reasons why I gave this book a three to four star.
The first reason is that His main task was to be sent to earth and to rule it. But he was in a boxing match and he was knocked out for about one hundred years and he was found by a local street musician. It was interesting to me because of how the author came up with the story.
The second reason is that he was funny about it. Some of the funny things where that the bad guy was a lizard type of alligator and that he sent many bad guys to take Mr hero from the women. Also i find it funny is that the street magician is not even funny but she is working towards a goal by saving the money.
The third reason is that it is an overall good book. It is a quick read if you need that are interested in a good read. This graphic novel is good for all ages of reading and is just the right length to read.
The overall reason I gave this book the rating is that it is fun for boys and girls and it was funny and had lots of action for me. I would recommend this book to anybody that has to get some books in for a reading goal or just for another book on the shelf. It also helps with people overcoming this just as Mr hero did when fighting the bad guys.
The first reason is that His main task was to be sent to earth and to rule it. But he was in a boxing match and he was knocked out for about one hundred years and he was found by a local street musician. It was interesting to me because of how the author came up with the story.
The second reason is that he was funny about it. Some of the funny things where that the bad guy was a lizard type of alligator and that he sent many bad guys to take Mr hero from the women. Also i find it funny is that the street magician is not even funny but she is working towards a goal by saving the money.
The third reason is that it is an overall good book. It is a quick read if you need that are interested in a good read. This graphic novel is good for all ages of reading and is just the right length to read.
The overall reason I gave this book the rating is that it is fun for boys and girls and it was funny and had lots of action for me. I would recommend this book to anybody that has to get some books in for a reading goal or just for another book on the shelf. It also helps with people overcoming this just as Mr hero did when fighting the bad guys.
May 7, 2018
An interesting graphic novel/comic book series. I found it tough to get into at the start, but soon settled in and found myself enjoying the main character, Jenny, and her steam-powered robot co-star. His personality changes significantly with the change of his head, making for a somewhat odd, but interesting story-line.
The main plot of aliens manipulating humans and trying to control earth's population was a good enough basis for this and kept me interested in the overarching story through each installment.
The main plot of aliens manipulating humans and trying to control earth's population was a good enough basis for this and kept me interested in the overarching story through each installment.
May 11, 2019
Love this book! Neil Gaiman writes amazing graphic novels!!!
January 12, 2024
Steampunk comes to the modern world. The villain is great and mysterious. Good character development. Many moving parts.
November 7, 2016
This one is pretty obscure. I'd never heard of it until I saw it on a friend's bookshelf. I thought it was strange I hadn't heard of it since Neil Gaiman's name was on it and I'm pretty familiar with his work. The reason is, while Gaiman developed the concept for some of the characters, he didn't write the comics himself.
It's a little campy, but there's some good relationship development and some good humor, the artwork is solid, and I was never bored.
It's a little campy, but there's some good relationship development and some good humor, the artwork is solid, and I was never bored.
June 22, 2020
Neil Gaiman’s Mr Hero is a character in the Teknophage epic which was dreamed up by Neil Gaiman in the early 1990s but folded in a comic book bust the like of which happens every ten years or so. It’s fair to point out that this volume can be read as a standalone but does tie in with the others in the series, namely Neil Gaiman’s Teknophage Vol. # 1 and 2. Linking the saga together is the Teknophage himself, a 65 million-year-old lizard and one of the classic villains of comics, up there with Darkseid, Magneto and Doctor Doom.
We learn in the first three pages that Mr Hero was constructed by the Teknophage in his factory on Kalighoul in another dimension and sent to Earth, presumably to cause trouble. Henry Phage has a long term plan to corrupt and conquer our planet. ‘But even the devil can err in his works and in place of a demon…create a hero.’ The caption says so. In a later story, it’s revealed that Mr Hero has entirely different notions about who created him. In any case, he’s a steam-powered automaton with a soul and two heads. One directs him for fighting and the other is better for thinking. Both speak in Victorian English calling villains cads and bounders but otherwise behaving with great courtesy, especially to ladies.
For a while, Mr Hero performed on stage with a magician in Victorian England, doing a bit of pugilism to show off his talents. His left hand went awry and broke a man’s jaw, after which he was retired and put in a crate. That stray hand is currently in the possession of Henry Phage, lizard ruler of Kalighoul, but how it got there isn’t clear. The rest of Mr Hero is found years later in Los Angeles by one Jenny Hale, a vivacious young female who works in a museum. By Dickensian coincidence, she comes across his head in a junk shop the next day and when it’s attached he becomes animated. Phage detects that Mr Hero has come back to life and sends henchmen to recover his property.
These malevolent minions include the Chameleons, a gang of shape-changers who can blend into the background. There’s a striking image of them peeling off a brick wall. There’s also Mister Pierce, a thug with razor-sharp fists, Deadbolt who can electrify things and Bloodboil, who will fill you full of toxins. They are supervised by Beaumont who runs Henry Phage’s business empire on Earth and a chap called Kingman, who is meant to be in charge but seems to spend a lot of time watching television and playing video games, having become enamoured of our culture.
There are different artistic teams for the pages set in Kalighoul with Henry Phage and the pages that take place on Earth. The scenes on dark, macabre Kalighoul are by Bryan Talbot and Angus McKie. The action on bright, sunlit Earth is pencilled by Ted Slampyak and inked by Bob McLeod, Art Nichols and some others. It’s all okay. It won’t blow your mind but it won’t hurt your eyes either and the story is easy to follow, which is the main thing.
The ‘Teknophage’ volumes in this series struck me as similar to our great British comic ‘2000AD’ with dark themes and imagery. The atmosphere and art in ‘Mr. Hero’ is more like that of a traditional super-hero comic with fairly decent characters trying to save the day and do the right thing. The Teknophage is, of course, a very naughty reptile and his story is not at all fluffy which is why the different art team on his pages works well.
Having over 200 pages of entertaining story in bright colour on quality paper for this money is extremely good value. You probably have to resign yourself to buying all the related books but they’re worth reading, too.
Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/
We learn in the first three pages that Mr Hero was constructed by the Teknophage in his factory on Kalighoul in another dimension and sent to Earth, presumably to cause trouble. Henry Phage has a long term plan to corrupt and conquer our planet. ‘But even the devil can err in his works and in place of a demon…create a hero.’ The caption says so. In a later story, it’s revealed that Mr Hero has entirely different notions about who created him. In any case, he’s a steam-powered automaton with a soul and two heads. One directs him for fighting and the other is better for thinking. Both speak in Victorian English calling villains cads and bounders but otherwise behaving with great courtesy, especially to ladies.
For a while, Mr Hero performed on stage with a magician in Victorian England, doing a bit of pugilism to show off his talents. His left hand went awry and broke a man’s jaw, after which he was retired and put in a crate. That stray hand is currently in the possession of Henry Phage, lizard ruler of Kalighoul, but how it got there isn’t clear. The rest of Mr Hero is found years later in Los Angeles by one Jenny Hale, a vivacious young female who works in a museum. By Dickensian coincidence, she comes across his head in a junk shop the next day and when it’s attached he becomes animated. Phage detects that Mr Hero has come back to life and sends henchmen to recover his property.
These malevolent minions include the Chameleons, a gang of shape-changers who can blend into the background. There’s a striking image of them peeling off a brick wall. There’s also Mister Pierce, a thug with razor-sharp fists, Deadbolt who can electrify things and Bloodboil, who will fill you full of toxins. They are supervised by Beaumont who runs Henry Phage’s business empire on Earth and a chap called Kingman, who is meant to be in charge but seems to spend a lot of time watching television and playing video games, having become enamoured of our culture.
There are different artistic teams for the pages set in Kalighoul with Henry Phage and the pages that take place on Earth. The scenes on dark, macabre Kalighoul are by Bryan Talbot and Angus McKie. The action on bright, sunlit Earth is pencilled by Ted Slampyak and inked by Bob McLeod, Art Nichols and some others. It’s all okay. It won’t blow your mind but it won’t hurt your eyes either and the story is easy to follow, which is the main thing.
The ‘Teknophage’ volumes in this series struck me as similar to our great British comic ‘2000AD’ with dark themes and imagery. The atmosphere and art in ‘Mr. Hero’ is more like that of a traditional super-hero comic with fairly decent characters trying to save the day and do the right thing. The Teknophage is, of course, a very naughty reptile and his story is not at all fluffy which is why the different art team on his pages works well.
Having over 200 pages of entertaining story in bright colour on quality paper for this money is extremely good value. You probably have to resign yourself to buying all the related books but they’re worth reading, too.
Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/
September 4, 2021
Reprinting the first 9 issues of the 1995 series from Tekno Comix, which was a venture by Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy; because things are cooler when spelled with y's, I guess) that brought in authors and media stars as creators and worldbuilders and then handed those projects over to the Tekno Comix writing and art teams for the production of the actual comics stories.
In this case, the "name" writer was Gaiman, who actually created five interconnected titles for Tekno Comix.
Mr. Hero tells the story of a Victorian-era steam-powered automaton, an intelligent robot used in magic shows in the 19th century, but whose real origin is a much more sinister one, linked to the demonic Teknophage, who has been manipulating events on Earth and other planets for centuries.
The Mr. Hero robot is discovered by aspiring magician and mime Jenny Hale in the basement of a museum of stage magic. The Teknophage at first wants the robot back, but later embarks on a more elaborate scheme of corrupting Jenny with wealth while using experimental brainwashing on her best friend.
Mr. Hero the robotic pugilist with a noble heart and 19th Century mannerisms does his best to protect Jenny, along with his alternate head, the Ratiocinator, who considers himself the brains of the operation.
There is a whole cast of oddball henchpersons and mysterious figures, and a fair amount of scheming, plotting, and infighting, while the friendship between Jenny and Mr. Hero shines through all of the mayhem.
The villains are the weakness of this story. They are SO incompetent. And a lot of that is intentional, part of the humor that makes the story entertaining. But it gets to be a bit eyeroll-inducing as they just make dumb move after dumb move.
That being said, Jenny is a great character, and her chemistry with her robot friend is charming. Both versions of Mr. Hero are fun, and they are distinctive enough to add some variety to the dialogue.
The plot is more convoluted than it needed to be, but I really enjoyed this for the main characters.
In this case, the "name" writer was Gaiman, who actually created five interconnected titles for Tekno Comix.
Mr. Hero tells the story of a Victorian-era steam-powered automaton, an intelligent robot used in magic shows in the 19th century, but whose real origin is a much more sinister one, linked to the demonic Teknophage, who has been manipulating events on Earth and other planets for centuries.
The Mr. Hero robot is discovered by aspiring magician and mime Jenny Hale in the basement of a museum of stage magic. The Teknophage at first wants the robot back, but later embarks on a more elaborate scheme of corrupting Jenny with wealth while using experimental brainwashing on her best friend.
Mr. Hero the robotic pugilist with a noble heart and 19th Century mannerisms does his best to protect Jenny, along with his alternate head, the Ratiocinator, who considers himself the brains of the operation.
There is a whole cast of oddball henchpersons and mysterious figures, and a fair amount of scheming, plotting, and infighting, while the friendship between Jenny and Mr. Hero shines through all of the mayhem.
The villains are the weakness of this story. They are SO incompetent. And a lot of that is intentional, part of the humor that makes the story entertaining. But it gets to be a bit eyeroll-inducing as they just make dumb move after dumb move.
That being said, Jenny is a great character, and her chemistry with her robot friend is charming. Both versions of Mr. Hero are fun, and they are distinctive enough to add some variety to the dialogue.
The plot is more convoluted than it needed to be, but I really enjoyed this for the main characters.
January 5, 2021
This book was given to me as a gift, and even though I've liked Neil Gaiman's stories that I'm familiar with, I didn't know what to expect. Learning that this was not actually written by him and was just a concept made by him made me even more nervous. But I LOVED it. I'm shocked. Jenny is such a fun main character and Mr. Hero is surprisingly wholesome. The story is a little all over the place but it wasn't hard to follow and it was good to see how these characters interact in different scenarios. This probably won't connect with people who haven't read it so I guess I'll put a spoiler tag on it: I do have some complaints. The first is that Teknophage is a ridiculous villain. He's so goofy looking and I feel like I don't have much of a reason to fear for the main characters because of him. I do have a book based around him too so maybe I'll change my mind on that but for now...he's just a lizard in a suit. His concept art looks much more intimidating. Second is not a story problem but an issue with my book. Among the beautiful, vibrant pages, there are some that just look crusty. They look like when you scale a picture up too big, it becomes blurry and the lines become less clean. I'm afraid that might be what's actually happening here, but I don't understand why it's like that on some pages and not on others. Don't let that dissuade you from reading, it only occurs a couple times, but when it does it's a little jarring.
February 4, 2018
Overall a pretty weird graphic novel/comic series, but I give it points for originality. "Weird" is to be expected with any book that Neil Gaiman writes, and when it gets transformed into a graphic novel, it can only get even more odd. But I like the fact that Mr. Hero is centered around a steampunk-type robot from the past on a journey to find his missing hand and getting help from a modern-day slacker girl in Los Angeles. I wouldn't mind continuing on with the series of comics and diving even deeper into the meaning of the characters and the story line. This can also serve as a good introduction to Gaiman for younger readers who may not be ready to go fully into his novels. The story was very fun and strangely lighthearted in some ways, yet very dark in others. The fact that you have events going on in two completely differing worlds only adds to the intrigue. I'm not sure I would recommend it to the average graphic novel fan, but I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to find out more about Gaiman, his stories and his style. It's a very good jumping off point for anyone who is hesitant about starting the journey of reading more Gaiman and wants to make that journey a little bit easier.
December 1, 2018
“Unlimited resources, Mister Mayfair—That’s the universal road to corrupting the masses, as Miss Hale will prove very shortly...”
This is a genre that doesn’t tend to be noted for its use of humour, but I have to say that I found this to be a really funny read. I remember reading Vance’s “On the Ropes” around three or four years ago and being really impressed by that, so I was looking forward to this.
“Mr Hero” is very much slapstick meets steam punk in an action packed and rip roaring affair. Some of the scenes resemble pnes from a Michael Jackson video. The drawing is superb, all hyper trophic musculature and demonic detail with some excellent use of colouring and the plot line and characters are like a blend of Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles” and Moore & O’Neill’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”.
This is filled with many memorable characters; Teknophage is a ruthless and compelling baddie who embodies capitalism all too well. The Dark Chameleons are creepy if not terrifying and there is an element of wry playfulness and nods elsewhere with some of the other characters. This is a clever, compelling and funny piece of work and I really look forward to reading the follow up as soon as I can.
This is a genre that doesn’t tend to be noted for its use of humour, but I have to say that I found this to be a really funny read. I remember reading Vance’s “On the Ropes” around three or four years ago and being really impressed by that, so I was looking forward to this.
“Mr Hero” is very much slapstick meets steam punk in an action packed and rip roaring affair. Some of the scenes resemble pnes from a Michael Jackson video. The drawing is superb, all hyper trophic musculature and demonic detail with some excellent use of colouring and the plot line and characters are like a blend of Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles” and Moore & O’Neill’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”.
This is filled with many memorable characters; Teknophage is a ruthless and compelling baddie who embodies capitalism all too well. The Dark Chameleons are creepy if not terrifying and there is an element of wry playfulness and nods elsewhere with some of the other characters. This is a clever, compelling and funny piece of work and I really look forward to reading the follow up as soon as I can.
April 19, 2022
Great fun if somewhat nonsensical at times (Where did the Atavar come from?).
A character created by Neil Gaiman but fleshed out by writer James Vance, Mr. Hero is a steam-powered robot imbued with a soul, originally created by a sentient dinosaur called the Teknophage, but with the sensibility of the Victorian England he "lived" in. Confused yet?
After languishing in a crate for a century, Mr. Hero comes into the possession of street performer Jennifer Hale in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
Created during the comic boom of the early 90s, the publisher soon went bust until the comics were collected into these volumes by Super Genius.
Nostalgic fun.
A character created by Neil Gaiman but fleshed out by writer James Vance, Mr. Hero is a steam-powered robot imbued with a soul, originally created by a sentient dinosaur called the Teknophage, but with the sensibility of the Victorian England he "lived" in. Confused yet?
After languishing in a crate for a century, Mr. Hero comes into the possession of street performer Jennifer Hale in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
Created during the comic boom of the early 90s, the publisher soon went bust until the comics were collected into these volumes by Super Genius.
Nostalgic fun.
February 14, 2024
A fairly bland and boring story, with bland characters, boring plot points, a vague sense of character development and a lack of purpose beyond the idea of the boy/girl meets robot/giant trope. I don’t know. It’s not very good, and using gaiman’s name on this book is like seeing Spielberg in an executive producer role. Neither did much, but are the headline name value on the cover.
December 28, 2018
Just don't think this one was for me. I didn't connect with the characters, and there was a lot going on (both visually and plotwise) that didn't really make sense. This comic really shows its time and I'm unsure if it aged well.
December 13, 2024
This is only really getting four stars so I can rank it higher than the other Tekno Comix. This is far superior in its characters and storyline. There’s a mystery and I actually WANT to know more. I could have done without the crossover to Teknophage but otherwise I’m digging it.
March 6, 2018
I like the story, but the manner of telling it was a bit rough around the edges.
December 3, 2018
Interesting design, bland follow-through.
November 6, 2020
Ok story, not written by Neil Gaiman
August 3, 2021
It was alright, I only read #2 as it was a gift from my father-in-law. It was a quick read and I found it entertaining. Not sure if I am going to seek out the other issues.
August 20, 2021
An interesting and twisting tale - was sad to see the Volume end on such an abrupt term.
June 9, 2022
One of the heroes of Gaiman's Tecknoverse (along with Lady Justice). It's a bit corny and campy, but I think Steampunk really is, ultimately.
April 2, 2023
Kind of a fun weird comic book in a new-to-me universe. It doesn’t totally work, but I may explore the world a little more if I can find the books.
December 10, 2024
Nothing special, but it's certainly not bad. It's a fun comic book.
December 28, 2024
There is a good story here and I find myself enjoying the characters more as it goes. It's a bit clunky at times, but works overall.
March 23, 2017
Bland villains but the heroes sort of grow on you. Actually the best character was Jenny.
July 10, 2016
For all its pulpy melodrama, it's hard for me to criticize this book too much, because it has such a solid (and intriguing) basis. We are taken back into acquaintance with teh Teknophage (readers may or may not be familiar with his own series of comics, but it matters little to this particular story), but the story centres on a wondrous automaton which seemingly has the capacity for independent thought. Much of the action consists of the automaton and his chosen companions running about attempting to stay out of trouble and to find out more about his true origins, without much success, but the groundwork for some long term storyarcs are well-laid to continue the series in the best pulp sci-fi traditions.
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July 15, 2017
This was a very interesting read. The characters were different from what you normally find in a comic book. The main character (despite the title) was a young lady, a strong willed and independent lady to be sure. The robot character was interesting and the villain was very different.
But in the end the storytelling was disjointed and choppy. There was a lot of back story missing that after 200+ pages still needs to be fleshed out. There were new minor villains and side stories introduced almost at random that added nothing. Maybe it is a cultural thing of America vs London but it just feels like there is something missing.
Oh well it is worth the read because it is a different kind of comic. I would say more a 3.5 than a full 4 stars.
But in the end the storytelling was disjointed and choppy. There was a lot of back story missing that after 200+ pages still needs to be fleshed out. There were new minor villains and side stories introduced almost at random that added nothing. Maybe it is a cultural thing of America vs London but it just feels like there is something missing.
Oh well it is worth the read because it is a different kind of comic. I would say more a 3.5 than a full 4 stars.
November 19, 2016
Just good fun.
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September 5, 2015¿Futuro primer integral de Mr. Hero?
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March 29, 2017Created by the villainous Henry Phage (aka Teknophage) as a sleeper agent, steampunk robot Mr. Hero is the toast of the late 19th century carnival scene. But when an accident during a boxing match causes him to seriously harm a patron, he's boxed up and forgotten. Rediscovered 100 years later by a young street magician, Mr. Hero struggles to overcome his original programming and become the hero his new friend (and the world) needs.
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