Comics & Graphic Novels
Courier Dover Publications
November 16, 2016
224
9780486804958
$24.95
A captivating tale of action, romance, and betrayal, Robota features breathtaking illustrations that add a cinematic scope to every page. Orson Scott Card, author of the award-winning bestseller Ender's Game, collaborated with artist Doug Chiang on the story and wrote the narrative for this visionary work. This edition includes additional, never-before-seen art that Chiang developed for a prospective Robota film. Plus, Gareth Edwards, the director of both Godzilla (2014) and the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, provides a new Preface.
An elaborate study in world-building that traces a human's journey through a preindustrial civilization, Robota explores the relationship between nature and technology. The hero, Caps, awakens with amnesia in a fantastic world of dinosaurs and talking animals — a land of enchantment dominated by giant robots and their sadistic general, Kaantur-Set, who is bent on human genocide. With the help of Juomes, a yeti-like hunter-beast, Caps must battle the tyrannical robots and rediscover his true identity.
Robota is… well uhm… WOW!
Graphic artist Doug Chiang (Star Wars, Forrest Gump, Polar Express and much more) started working on Robota in 1993 as a graphic concept, later on Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) came on board to tell the story. So is it a graphic novel, an illustrated story you might ask. It is neither of both! It is a coming together of 2 creative minds and a collective achievement of art and writing.Chiang’s graphic art, which is over a wide range of techniques from sketches and (digital) paintings, is wonderful! Since he worked on this project since 1993 there’s a development noticeable in skills and techniques. The images have, sometimes, a dated feeling over them which is off course explainable by the time span used to finish this project. Overall this is no problem, every artist has it’s development over the years.
Scott Card contributed with a great story which is entertaining and caring.
Together they’ve created a wonderful masterpiece which shows what can happen when 2 talented people put their hands and minds together.
