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Welcome all! Today we are reviewing Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow as our third book in the theme focusing on Geof Darrow.
The Big Boy and Rusty the Boy Robot is two-issue comic about an attack on Tokyo by a giant 4-armed, 4-legged, Iguana with atomic breath…
Anyway, Rusty the Boy robot, an Astroboy-like artificially intelligent weapon created by the Japanese government, is sent by the state to save the people of Tokyo but is walloped. Now the leaders of Japan must make a drastic call, one they would have avoided had they thought that lives wouldn’t be sacrificed, they called in the Americans. The Americans sent Big Guy, a man in a robotic exoskeleton to take out the giant iguana and he does so by using nuclear power to blow the creature to smithereens. After this Rusty and Big Boy become partners, reluctantly on Big Boy’s part.
In this comic there is also a short story about The Big Boy and Rusty taking on creatures during the Fourth of July.
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Music: “A Dyin’ Breed” by The Grey Room and Density and Time
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