Go-Bots

I LOVE this comic. Scioli is a genius and I’ll say that all day long. 5 stars.If you’ve never read Go Bots or aren’t familiar with Scioli’s work, GET THIS BOOK and all his others!However, my only comment is with the publisher, I guess. Absolutely nothing against the artist. I give the TP 4.5 stars and here’s why. I own all the Go Bots comics. My *only* disappointment was I was hoping this would be larger format, especially given the treasury edition-ish cover layout. Scioli’s work is incredible and very detailed. I think it deserves better treatment in a cooler collected volume. I understand sales volume and all that is factored in, but still. I would be more interested in a larger format treasury edition than a same-size TP and was bummed about that when this arrived and everything was still tiny.Kinda like being on a date and then...oh....(Ok, not really, but you get the point).The product dimensions are listed, but I failed to see them out of excitement about the price. My bad. 5 stars for Scioli all day every day, I just would have been overjoyed if this was larger format so fans like me can pour over all the details and better appreciate what is otherwise pretty small work.Just me dreaming here. I would love an Artist Edition featuring bits of Scioli’s earlier work up to Godland (plus parts of his back story or process) with a big focus on everything after (Super Friends, American Barbarian, Transformers/GI Joe, Go Bots, etc.) I love the more vintage aesthetic of those later books. If nothing else, I’d be in heaven with a collected Scioli Superfriends (doesn’t exist to my knowledge) and a full blown Go Bots Artist Edition. This is a note to publishers. Get on it!

This comic is not as good as Scioli's Transformers Vs. GI Joe but really, what is? If you liked Transformers Vs. GI Joe, this is well worth reading. It's very different in tone, but it has the same Scioli magic. AT the end of chapter 1, you think you see where the story is going; at the end of chapter 2, you realize you have no idea. Scioli continues to push the stories in unexpected directions, to experiment with storytelling techniques, and to throw in homages to classic comic book panels. Worth reading for the bravado formalistic experimentation alone, but if you had Go-Bots as a kid, it is an absolute thrill.

Great story/reboot. Loved the nods to other eighties movies or toys; including hinting the Gobots were the progenitors of the Transformers.Brought me back to the eighties when my mom bought me Gobots from KB Toys!

A fun read that tries to reinvigorate the Go-Bots brand. The attempts to tie it into transformers lore are original and almost brilliant. Not exactly an award winner but for the fans the grew up with these properties it is a wonderful shot of nostalgia.

Good read

Only big brains need read this transformative work of graphic fiction. Weebs and normies need not apply

Don’t waste your time reading anything else being published right now. Just read Go-Bots. It’s everything you will ever need.

Second half was very confusing - plot didn't always make sense.

Tom Scioli strikes again with perhaps his best work yet, reviving the brilliant and underrating Go-Bots!

often regarded by most fans as a bargain bin version of transformers, there will be comparisons made in this review, it's unavoidable. I remember having the toys and watching the cartoon as a kid and was hoping that this would reinvigorate a franchise that could be bought in line with it's "bigger brother." unfortunately it fails on all counts. Lets start with the art, the whole book is done in the simplistic retro style, which I don't hate, but gets old really quickly when the whole book is like that, I think it would have benefited from more detailed, realistic artwork, and should have kept the retro style look to a minimum and saved it for parts set in the past and flashbacks like IDW's transformers run does. Some panels look so simple and basic that a 5 year old could draw it better. The story moves along at breakneck speed, and some panels feel like they are missing, like one gobot might be pinned to the ground by another gobot, then the next panel will show the gobot that WAS pinned flying away whilst the other gobot looks stunned, with no visuals to explain how he escaped. The same can be said for the script and dialog, as not only doeas it look like it was drawn by a 5 year old, it reads like it was written by one also. With very important story elements breezed over, and nonsensical exposition, at one point one of the gobots exclaims to another "i'll rip out your spine", what spine? it makes no sense. It's not afraid to kill off some of it's characters either, which is fine, but there is no character development, so you don't care if they do die, as they have only been introduced briefly. I did enjoy the inclusion off the rocklords, but really, couldn't that have been saved for the second volume? as it feels like it's eight volumes worth of story crammed into one volume. And not only that, but any winks and nods to the transformers franchise aren't done in a funny, irreverent, interesting or even respectful way, every reference falls flat, failing to illicit any emotion from a huge transformers fan, for example making cy-kills origins as a pit fighter more like megatrons (depending on which version you read) it rips off transformers, but not in a good way, which is most disappointing as I would have liked to have seen this franchise built up in story to rival that of transformers. And the final stinger that (SPOILERS) imply that gobots have had their memory wiped and turned into transformers, makes zero sense, and is quite frankly insulting. It spits in the eyes of the original gobots storyline, and of the transformers storyline too. The only reason I could see them doing this is potential transformers VS gobots crossover, which I would only want to see if it's nothing like this book. and as for any potential sequel volumes, I feel that the story has written itself into a corner already, making it by the end only a handful of intelligent humans and gobots on earth, surrounded by a small amount of caveman like humans as the original human race gets destroyed. I mean where can you go from there?Whats most disappointing is I went into this book with no expectations whatsoever, except to interest me in the franchise enough to want to see more from gobots, It has not, and sincerely doubt it will for any potentially new to the franchise reader also.