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Go-Bots #1
Go-Bots have changed our way of life. Leader-1 is a self-aware fighter jet on a hostage rescue mission with his partner, Commander Nick Burns. Scooter is the personal transport and best friend to undergrad A.J. Foster. Turbo is Matt Hunter’s transforming race car in the hottest sport in America, Go-Bot Racing. Cy-Kill is the champion of the illegal, underground Go-Bot Fighting League. They say they’re here to help us, but are they here to replace us?
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32 pages, Comic Book
Published November 1, 2018
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December 4, 2018
As a disclaimer, I've never been a Transformer fan. I feel this influenced a lot of my read, though there were areas that could have been better crafted to draw even me in. The story suffered from odd pacing, where we start off with minutiae details in conversations between characters. And then we jump to whole revolutions starting with omitted scenes. I could follow along without getting lost, but the "we're paying extra attention here to nuances and characters" to "NOW WE'RE HERE AND IT MIGHT BE WEEKS OR DAYS LATER" plays fast and loose with the whole introduction of this brand new world. We don't get a chance to immerse ourselves into the ideas Tom Scioli is putting forward. There's hints of some cool world-building (ie: what Scooter wants to spend time on) and then we're rushing on to the next group of characters/plot point.
And there's a lack of emotional heart here. A. J.'s Go-Bot is Scooter. They're implied to be familiar with one another, and yet A.J. needs to ask questions of Scooter for the reader's benefit and they're things A.J. should already intimately know. It's like our humans are best friends with their Go-Bots until they're complete strangers. And now the issue is "can we trust them not to turn on us?" and I feel that this shouldn't be an issue at all for our main human characters.
The art is retro, which works for the story. And if you like Transformers, I can see you finding some nostalgia in Go-Bots. But for me, I don't know if I'll keep up with the series myself. The sociological connotations that I'd love to see in a Go-Bot/Human world are hardly rewarded with the time and craft I'd like to see.
20.25/50
And there's a lack of emotional heart here. A. J.'s Go-Bot is Scooter. They're implied to be familiar with one another, and yet A.J. needs to ask questions of Scooter for the reader's benefit and they're things A.J. should already intimately know. It's like our humans are best friends with their Go-Bots until they're complete strangers. And now the issue is "can we trust them not to turn on us?" and I feel that this shouldn't be an issue at all for our main human characters.
The art is retro, which works for the story. And if you like Transformers, I can see you finding some nostalgia in Go-Bots. But for me, I don't know if I'll keep up with the series myself. The sociological connotations that I'd love to see in a Go-Bot/Human world are hardly rewarded with the time and craft I'd like to see.
20.25/50
January 10, 2024
A lot of people seem to believe the Go-Bots are a cheap knockoff of the Transformers, but that's not actually the case. Go-Bots came out about a year and a half prior to the Transformers. Go-Bots came out in 1982-1983 and Transformers came out in 1984. Transformers isn't exactly a ripoff of the Go-Bots either. Anyways, this has little to do with my review.
I wasn't expecting this comic to be a completely revamped version of the Go-Bots. Tom Scioli changed the origin of the Go-Bots to something mind numbingly dumb and ridiculous. Scioli's origin for the Go-Bots is they were created by humans to solve a parking problem. It solved the parking problem by making a car that transforms and can walk aside someone when they're out and about. Dude shouldn't be writing comics when he lacks an imagination and couldn't come up with anything better than they were created to solve a parking problem.
The original origin of the Go-Bots is far more interesting with many areas to explore. They were originally a humanoid species from Gobotron. Overtime they had their organic body parts implanted into robot bodies that could change their form. Eventually, they became 100% robot. They did all that to save their species from extinction. That's far more interesting than to the dogshit Scioli came up with.
The story itself isn't that great. You're introduced main characters and a few pages later there's a Go-Bot revolution with zero explanation of why and how the revolution came about. It's simply not explained. It's like a 12 year old wrote this dogshit. I regret blindly buying all five of these comics. ugh.
I wasn't expecting this comic to be a completely revamped version of the Go-Bots. Tom Scioli changed the origin of the Go-Bots to something mind numbingly dumb and ridiculous. Scioli's origin for the Go-Bots is they were created by humans to solve a parking problem. It solved the parking problem by making a car that transforms and can walk aside someone when they're out and about. Dude shouldn't be writing comics when he lacks an imagination and couldn't come up with anything better than they were created to solve a parking problem.
The original origin of the Go-Bots is far more interesting with many areas to explore. They were originally a humanoid species from Gobotron. Overtime they had their organic body parts implanted into robot bodies that could change their form. Eventually, they became 100% robot. They did all that to save their species from extinction. That's far more interesting than to the dogshit Scioli came up with.
The story itself isn't that great. You're introduced main characters and a few pages later there's a Go-Bot revolution with zero explanation of why and how the revolution came about. It's simply not explained. It's like a 12 year old wrote this dogshit. I regret blindly buying all five of these comics. ugh.
November 22, 2018
A surprisingly engaging Asimov like robot story with some fun homages to 80s toy license comics thrown in, including the art style which I must admit I hated going in, though it completely won me over once I realized why it was there. As a near life long Transformers fan who has never really cared ether way about the Go-bots I am very surprised but also kinda happy to say I am very interested to see where this goes.
November 24, 2018
Aunque probablemente haya algo que no esté viendo, el estilo narrativo de este cómic no es de mi agrado. Hay mucha historia apretujada y el arte no ayuda a seguirla mejor.
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