24seven Volume 1

This was a pick that Steve had got me for Christmas. It's a collection of very brief stories concerning an alternate New York where everyone is a robot. It sounds cool on the surface, and most of it is interesting, but there was one nagging thing about it:Few of these stories absolutely required a robot to tell it.You'd think that the authors would fall over themselves to tell stories with a robotic feel to them, but the stories that are told are largely ones where humans would have done just as [...]

When you put together a compilation based around the conceit that everyone is a robot instead of a human, it would help if the stories in some way reflected that conceit. Instead, about a third of the stories would play out exactly the same if the characters were human, a third don't even make sense with robot protagonists, and a third actually seem appropriate for the compilation. The artwork in general is good to amazing, but the stories rarely made it up to the level of okay.

Um. I don't get it.Okay I do. I just don't think it was all that well executed. Only a very small minority of the vignettes in this collection REALLY made use of the Robots-Not-Humans assumption of the world. The rest basically just subbed in (admittedly cool) robot art for meat art. I need more than just a clever premise and neat pictures.Guess that's why it took me so long to finish. Didn't hurt that I was flat-on-my-back sick for two of those 8 days

It was a little disappointing that many of the stories about so-called robots could have just as easily been stories about humans. The "robots" in question were only different from humans in appearance. I suppose that for a few stories it's a nice novelty, but when it's the exception rather than the rule, it gets old fast. The art was spectacular, however.

Some interesting stuff but overall pretty weak.

This collection of short comics centered on human stories with robots was, quite frankly, not very interesting. I didn't quite see the point of this one.

Amanda has it.