The high octane, brightly colored, ‘90s fever dream that is RoboWolf continues. Our ragtag crew of bank robbers now has only eight hours to deliver the ransom money to General Masakov and save RoboWolf’s kidnapped daughter, Lindsey. So, of course, we’re going to stop for a prolonged flashback, wherein RoboWolf and his best-friend-turned-worst-enemy reminisce about the fateful day that made them both who they are.
Meanwhile, the team is devastated by the news that RoboWolf is planning on stepping down as leader to spend some quality time with his daughter—for two or three days. Can they ever get past the betrayal of this planned weekend sabbatical?
That’s all the plot you really need for this issue. There’s more that happens, of course. The crew encounters problems. The crew solves the problems. The problems they thought they solved go wrong again, resulting in new problems. The crew faces strange and colorful enemies, resulting in copious wanton violence and destruction. Repeat.
The pace doesn’t feel quite so frenetic as the previous issue. Not that things have slowed down. Their main enemy this issue has chainsaws for hands, just in case you were worried it wouldn’t live up to the hype of issue #1.
However, things aren’t quite so all over the place as they were. In the first issue, we were introduced to our main characters by a TV news reporter, while they were in the middle of a high-speed chase. We were thrown right into the middle of the fray, with no safety net. Now that we’ve been immersed in it a bit, things aren’t quite so jarring, and it’s a lot easier to roll with the punches.
The story and the world are still completely wild and really funny. Tongue is still planted firmly in cheek, as we send up every ’80s and ’90s character and trope you can think of. It’s hyper-violent, but in a cartoony way. There’s plenty of blood, but it still feels more ridiculous than disturbing. Even so, probably not for the faint of heart.
Every step on this journey reels me in further. I can’t wait to see what happens next, or what new colorful characters RoboWolf and his friends will meet (and possibly kill). If you like ridiculous action, biting satire, and movies and cartoons from the ’80s and ’90s, you’ll definitely want to get on board for RoboWolf. I, for one, am loving every minute of it.
Creative Team: Jake Smith (writer and illustrator), Mike Richardson (publisher), Brett Israel (editor), Tara McCarron (assistant editor), Abi Joyce-Shaw (designer), AJ Newell (digital art technician), prepress technician (Jake Johnson)
Publisher: Dark Horse
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