It's been a long time, a long, long time since I read something so unbelievably on the nose and an absolutely ridiculous heap of tropes and made-up profanity that actually pulled it off with such style and aplomb!

D4VE is a robot in a world where humans made robots and robots killed all humans and all life in the galaxy (as far as they were aware), so with nothing else to do robots became comic book stereotypes of humans. Once a mighty warrior, now a lowly officer worker in a classic life on the skids tale, D4VE gets one last chance to go big or go home when a new alien invasion comes to town.

This genuinely made me laugh, looks great, and absolutely pulls this ludicrous tone and premise off. Is it another shitty retirement, one last blast, dudes rock-arse ridiculousness? Absofuckinglutely. But it manages to capture the quintessential silly genius that Kevin Smith was always reaching for and rarely grasped. ( )

Graphic Novel Book Club: July 2014

I really did not like anything in or about this series. This just made me sigh a lot, and wince. There was more sexual explicitness with the teen than ever needed, as well as absoutely no growth from the main character. I loved by 2% the really good old computer jokes and they made it not entirely like I was drowning alive in this read. ( )

This is the story of D4VE (Dave) a former defense robot who now leads a dull life. Sure he has a good job, that he hates. A lovely wife who ignores him. A son who loves... well he loves himself, often. D4ve misses the days of fighting humans, aliens, and anything else that needed to be destroyed. So what happens when the E4rth has aliens visit for the first time in forever. Well D4ve gets to see if he still got it. I enjoyed this book. It's a fun read that reminds you that comics are fun. Just enjoy the ride and hope that D4ve gets to see tomorrow.

I read this book via NetGalley. I thank them for this book. #NetGalley ( )