World War Robot: Illustrated Number One

A fantastic, oversized softcover graphic novel for science fiction fans and “comic” fans alike, World War Robot is a collection of flash fiction snippets told in war-diary form by participants on both sides – Earth-Humans vs Martian-Humans – as they struggle to gain the upper hand via their “Bertie” robot war machines. A dirty, lonely tale of human desperation and depravity.

Large illustrations and well-thoughtout character points-of-view fiction blend to give this work a strength rarely seen in comics these days. A masterpiece of minimalistic storytelling, Ashley Wood, uses the reader's own imagination to enhance the world which he has created by giving the reader space in which to develop.

The grim, muted colors and shadows work to give the whole work a feel of down-in-the-mud, blood-in-your-mouth desperate feel of trench warfare that an excellent World War One film will do.

More than just a graphic novel, and more than art, WWR really is a masterpiece that needs to be experienced.