If the cutesy artwork on the cover and the kitschy title scare you away on this book, your loss. This was a gem of a find for me about a year ago. Atomic Robo is essentially an homage to science fiction pop culture. The first two series pay homage to 50’s Monster Flicks, WW2 action comics, Astro Boy style robots, Stargate, Japanese giant fighting robots and the Shadow to name a few. Robo himself is an homage to a Doc Savage styled science hero, albeit created by Tesla at the start of the 20^th century. If you are a Hellboy fan jump in this is right in your wheelhouse in that you get a reluctant and confident hero fighting his way through semi connected events in the 20^th century. If you are not jump on with this issue anyway it a pretty damn close to an origin story anyhow.