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Front and center, America! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot - a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series, Hard Boiled! Everything you remember about being eight years old and watching monster movies is right here, but with all the magnified detail that you always wanted to see. Geof Darrow was awarded an Eisner for his spectacular artwork on the original hit miniseries, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. For all the time and all the care he lavished on those pages, it's an award that was well-earned. When Geof first came into the Dark Horse offices with the finished pages for the series based on Frank Miller's script, we were all stunned by the detail... A gargantuan monster is tearing apart downtown Tokyo and turning its fair citizens into a menagerie of grotesques! Can anyone stop the carnage? Can anyone save the city? Enter Rusty, the Boy Robot, Japan's biggest big gun! If he can't atomize the atomic monstrosity, nobody can!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An experiment goes wrong and an unstoppable force is unleashed in the form of a giant orange iguana with fire breathing abilities and shape shifting powers. Rusty the Boy Robot to the rescue! Only the Japanese Boy Robot can't save the day - enter the American Big Guy! Action and fighting ensues, etc etc.
The cover might make the book seem like a kid's comic but I assure you it isn't. Geof Darrow's incredible artwork is extremely graphic, especially in the fight scenes. Frank Miller's script is alright but reads a lot like a pastiche of 50s/60s comics propaganda than a true representation of his own abilities (for Miller's best see Dark Knight Returns and the Sin City series).
More troubling is the insinuation of Japanese weakness and American superiority. Rusty is the best the Japanese can offer in terms of fighting and he is a comical figure, insecure, weak, and completely ineffectual. It takes the might of the Americans to come in and destroy the threat. The Big Guy is just that, a big robot that kicks ass and does what the Japanese boy robot can't. Big Guy's own reaction to Rusty is similar to that of Batman's to Robin in "All Star Batman" so it's a similarly interesting relationship where the Big Guy is clearly the hero. Either way I wasn't particularly fond of Miller's depiction of the ineptness of Japanese military power. It seemed unnecessarily jingoistic.
As for the book? A bit tedious in a way because it's the simple comic book hero story of hero fights monster, monster loses, blah blah blah. For a better collaboration between Miller and Darrow, check out "Hard Boiled", a much more interesting comic book. "Big Guy and Rusty" is, well, kind of rusty.
The cover might make the book seem like a kid's comic but I assure you it isn't. Geof Darrow's incredible artwork is extremely graphic, especially in the fight scenes. Frank Miller's script is alright but reads a lot like a pastiche of 50s/60s comics propaganda than a true representation of his own abilities (for Miller's best see Dark Knight Returns and the Sin City series).
More troubling is the insinuation of Japanese weakness and American superiority. Rusty is the best the Japanese can offer in terms of fighting and he is a comical figure, insecure, weak, and completely ineffectual. It takes the might of the Americans to come in and destroy the threat. The Big Guy is just that, a big robot that kicks ass and does what the Japanese boy robot can't. Big Guy's own reaction to Rusty is similar to that of Batman's to Robin in "All Star Batman" so it's a similarly interesting relationship where the Big Guy is clearly the hero. Either way I wasn't particularly fond of Miller's depiction of the ineptness of Japanese military power. It seemed unnecessarily jingoistic.
As for the book? A bit tedious in a way because it's the simple comic book hero story of hero fights monster, monster loses, blah blah blah. For a better collaboration between Miller and Darrow, check out "Hard Boiled", a much more interesting comic book. "Big Guy and Rusty" is, well, kind of rusty.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Off my head right now, I can't think of another comic that's drawn as detailed as this. Geof Darrow really packed in everything, carving every scale and wrinkle onto the monsters, and leaving no rumble unturned. That's a magnificent feat. I wonder how much time was spent on creating this graphic novel.
The premise of the story is straightforward. A science experiment gone wrong creating a horrible monster which wreaks havoc in the city. In comes the self doubting heroes, Rusty the Boy Robot who essentially can't do anything and Big Guy who puts up a better fight.
You want a clearer picture? Imagine Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes, going off into one of his ridiculous imaginative play, the ones where major catastrophes can strike coincidentally on a single home or an impeding tsunami striking a coastal town. This graphic novel is like that, except it's told in more frames and more detail. In fact, I was surprise the writer isn't Bill Watterson.
There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
The premise of the story is straightforward. A science experiment gone wrong creating a horrible monster which wreaks havoc in the city. In comes the self doubting heroes, Rusty the Boy Robot who essentially can't do anything and Big Guy who puts up a better fight.
You want a clearer picture? Imagine Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes, going off into one of his ridiculous imaginative play, the ones where major catastrophes can strike coincidentally on a single home or an impeding tsunami striking a coastal town. This graphic novel is like that, except it's told in more frames and more detail. In fact, I was surprise the writer isn't Bill Watterson.
There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Frank Miller ('Sin City', 'The Dark Knight returns' etc) writes the story, Geof Darrow (production designer for 'The Matrix') team up to tell a familiar story; giant lizard trashes Japanese city. I bought this book at the same time as the recent 'Godzilla' film was released, and can't imagine that the movie's effects were any better. Darrow is remarkable as an illustrator for the level of intricate detail he provides- down to ventillation units on the roofs of far buildings, and crushed cigarette ends on the pavements. The only drawback with the story is the (intentionally) overblown dialogue, but this is more than adequately compensated for by the ambition of the drawings...Darrow & Miller's earlier, better plotted work 'Hard Boiled' was definitely not for a family audience. Buy and be amazed.
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