Review of
Magnus Robot Fighter Issue one
Three out of five stars
Hard to suspend disbelief with this character
I was an avid reader of comics in my youth, devouring
all that featured superheroes. However, one that I found uninteresting was
Magnus, Robot Fighter. The context premise is a very good one, robots have
become ubiquitous, and humanity has gone dependent and soft. The robots are literally
running the world and there are many detrimental consequences.
Magnus has been
raised from a toddler to be a superb fighter, capable of fighting and
destroying robots by hand. His parent/mentor/tutor is itself a robot, one that
believes that humans need a champion to fight the robot takeover. The problem
that I have is that when humans are far outnumbered by robots, fighting them in
a hand-to-hand manner cannot lead to anything other than a temporary, local
victory. Destroying an entire army of mechanical foes using only your hands always
seemed ludicrous to me.
This comic
contains the first issue of a reboot of the Magnus character as well as the
original Magnus story. The reboot does nothing to eliminate my skepticism
regarding the character. Magnus is still karate chopping robot foes into scrap
metal with no real plan to tackle the real issue, human dependence on robots.
The reality is that one man cannot change a society by punching out robots.
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