Basically what happens when a teenage German girl says "My dad already built me an after-school mecha for a pokemon-style safe fighting league: let's strap real weapons to it and FIGHT CRIME." A tale of comedy and adventure at a school where a new kid joins the mysterious Activity Club. Goes through multiple phases, but it's a slice-of-life comedy story about geeks, hipsters, misfits and the robots who share their lives. As others have said, it starts as a story with fun characters and bad art, and grows until the characters are better than ever and the art is also good. Comedy, mythology, and great storytelling with a powerful ending and wonderfully-realised characters. I did initially, but now I love it to bits, and this would have helped me when I first read it.)ĭigger by Ursula Vernon. ( A guide to reading Homestuck I wrote, in case you bounce off. Weird comedy science-fiction deep weirdness that builds up its own internal lore at the same time as long-form storytelling. ![]() All links go to the first comic in the series because that's easier. ![]() This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Buck Godot, comic, Dragon Magazine, Girl Genius, indie comic, Phil Foglio, What's New with Phil and Dixie by Charles. If you can find copies, snatch them up and enjoy. Otherwise you’ll have to scour eBay or Amazon to find a copy. Hard copies of volumes #1, #2 and #3 are difficult to find these days but they have been available online in the past at and hopefully will be again. The final joke is side-splitting, but I won’t spoil it. Phil packs a lot of information and plot into 8 issues of a comic while putting in a lot of jokes and sight gags. Buck must solve a galactic conspiracy involving The Winslow, which is a McGuffin/creature which Phil introduced many years ago based on a stuffed animal(!) It’s sentient, unique and indestructible as well as being quite silly. The first two parts of Buck- Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire and Psmith–are good, but The Gallimaufry is great. The Gallimaufry is a city-sized space station that acts as an embassy/United Nations for all races. New Hong Kong is the setting for most of the action until later in the series where Buck travels to The Gallimaufry as a bodyguard for the Madame Louisa “Lou” Dem Five. As you might imagine, this makes it a bit of a wild west. The shtick about New Hong Kong is that a hacker got into The Law Machines’ system and had one law: there are no laws on New Hong Kong. These robots declared laws across all human planets, which were voted on by the inhabitants, making some planets more restrictive than others. One of the more interesting ideas is a race of robots called The Law Machines. He has an entire universe of fascinating races and technologies. Putting aside style and dialogue, Buck Godot has some sharp science fiction writing. I did a Stanley and His Monster strip in Phil’s style, just because I enjoyed the shit out of it. I actually did an assignment at the Joe Kubert School where we were supposed to imitate an artist’s style. Several people have aped his style since, although they never quite succeed. It’s cartoony, both in basic layout as well as the dynamism of animation. The pattern of jokes reminds me of Marx Brothers, although with more of a bite. The action and dialogue are fast and hilarious. He’s very competent, despite being a borderline (or more) alcoholic. Buckminster “Buck” Godot is a mercenary/private investigator/bodyguard from a heavy gravity world, meaning his strength and endurance are far above human normal. Most of the action and situations take place on the planet “New Hong Kong” where there are no laws. Buck Godot started out in the comic anthology Just Imagine before the strips were collected in a Starblaze trade paperback.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |