Atomic Robo The Everything Explodes Collection

Collects the first three volumes in the series, originally published as The fightin' scientists of Tesladyne, The dogs of war, and The shadow from beyond time.

Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.

"Collects the fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated series Atomic Robo"--Page 4 of cover.

"This volume collects Atomic Robo: Deadly Art of Science #1 through #5 and Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day 2011 of the comic book series originally printed by Red 5 Comics."--T.p. verso.

Tesladyne was seized by a top secret government agency and transformed into Task Force ULTRA to bring global super science firms under the direct control of the military industrial complex. Escaped Tesladyne scientists went underground and are hunting for Robo. Oh, and giant monsters are threatening to consume all life on Earth. Sure was a nice planet we had for a while there!

In this well-oiled for your non-sexualized gaze collection, Atomic Robo teams up with jet-pack clad lady pirates, travels to Hollow Earth, and at long last, becomes a cowboy. Collects The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, and The Knights of the Golden Circle for your reading delight. Or maybe more?

Atomic Robo, a robot with automatic intelligence, battles a variety of villains.