
All this, and Rocket Raccoon of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, in my look at:
I, Robot-Master! Part 1.
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![]() This week, Budiansky vents his fury as we get duelling Marvel editors, in a story that will be deeply entertaining if you worked in their offices circa 1986. Everyone else may be buggered. All this, and Rocket Raccoon of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, in my look at: I, Robot-Master! Part 1.
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31/5/2013 10:20:49 am
The Robot Master cover story is silly but I wonder if part of the problem is a missing piece of the explanation, either because Budiansky took his audience for granted or because it fell in editing. Claiming the robots are the products of terrorists rather than alien invaders from another planet would mean the public at large wouldn't have to come to terms with the existance of aliens and all that that means for religious faith.
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Stuart
31/5/2013 10:38:50 am
Now that is an potentially interesting angle (and it's a shame the IDW comics have gone scorched Earth on... well Earth as a setting because I could see James Roberts doing something interesting with it).
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Ryan F
31/5/2013 03:55:19 pm
Also you have to consider when this was set... aliens were evil and scary, but evil terrorists, well, they could be beat. A key scene for me is the one where Joe Public just assumes Donny is a Commie, and some other random guy assumes he's from the PLO. In the 80s the Americans were at the peak of their world domination, and maybe they could afford to be a bit blasé about terrorism.
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Ryan F
31/5/2013 03:57:06 pm
PS: anyone know the relevance of the "K" symbol on Robot-Master's costume? That's always puzzled me...
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Stuart
2/6/2013 04:34:09 pm
I think it's supposed to be a stylised R (with the top curve of the circle forming the top of the R), but it's not the best executed design and does indeed look like more like a K.
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snowkatt
6/6/2013 10:40:37 pm
i...i really have nothing good to say about this one
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Felicity
3/8/2016 12:27:10 am
I never got the feeling that Donny Finkleberg was supposed to be a commentary on Danny Fingeroth as a person. The sense of it that I got was the Bob Budiansky wanted to create a fictional comic book writer and decided to make it a reference to someone. At worst, it came across to me like gentle ribbing.
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Stuart
3/8/2016 01:24:39 am
I like that Jim Shooter idea, that's even more meta with him having given Bob the job of developing TFs.
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