Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz:   Reviewed by Kristin It is a common theme in science fiction: Humans create robots, robots develop sentience, war happens, rogue robots...

Scott's Take: Avengers Mech Strike by Jed MacKay

 

Avengers Mech Strike by Jed MacKay is a self contained stand alone Avengers title that is supposed to sell the toys aka the mech suits the characters use. In this tale, the Avengers are fighting giant monsters that are attacking the whole world. Each attack is becoming more frequent. To combat the threat, the Avengers build giant mech suits to pilot. So, such as the movie Pacific Rim, superheroes will be piloting big robots vs giant monsters.

This is well written as one would expect from Jed MacKay and he does a great job of exploring each member of the team. This book is surprisingly deep for something designed to provide the background for the toy line. For one example, Spider-Man deals with having to face his insecurities as being part of the Avengers since he is not one of their most powerful members.  The art is really good in this tale.

The reader gets the feeling that this book is the reason that Jed MacKay is now in charge of the current main Avenger book. Several of the characters in this book have journeyed on to the current Avengers read that has yet to be put out in trade format.  This is a good book to hold one over while the first trade is still being collected.

 

 

My reading copy came from the Vickery Park Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

Scott A. Tipple ©2023

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers:   Reviewed by Kristin Since the Great Awakening, people and robots have gone their separate ways. Upon attaining consciousness, robots c...

Via The Passive Voice--- Amazon Robots

Did Will Smith teach us nothing about the dangers of robots?

Amazon Robots

 

Children's Book Review: "If I Were A Robot" by Scott Gordon

Being a robot with a suit of armor means our hero would be protected from the evil Overlord’s army. Thanks to the titanium shell the robot would be safe from their lasers and could deal with any and all threats. Of course, a robot needs a companion – preferably a robotic dog.

But, after learning a lesson in the daydream, the young boy is glad he isn’t a robot and is human after all. Because that means he can spend time with his dad who is also very happy to be home with him.

Once the simple and charming story ends more than half of the remaining book is devoted to other books by the author.

A cute tale that reinforces the idea that being with your parent is so much better than being something else. Like other books by this author, the illustrations are simple and colorful with accompanying small snippets of text. Aimed at children aged three to six, those on the younger end of the range may need reading assistance with this fun book.

If I Were A Robot

Scott Gordon

http://segordon.blogspot.com

March 2012

Kindle E-Book

Estimated print length--53 pages

$2.99

Material picked up during the author’s recent free book promotion for my objective review. If I Were A Robot was read via the free “Kindle for PC” program.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2012