Issue: WALL-E #6
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Writer: Bryce Carlson
Artist: Morgan Luthi
Colors: Digikore Studios
Letterer: Jose Macasocol, Jr.
Covers A & B: Morgan Luthi
Publisher: BOOM! Kids
The acclaimed prequel nears its conclusion!
WALL-E continues to help his human friend Andy repair a small spaceship. Andy hopes to be reunited with his family. The duo eat dinner and sleep during the night. Unfortunately, the large robot Bull-E captures WALL-E (along with several other WALL-Es). Andy saves him and they find a new motherboard for the spaceship. Suddenly, Andy sees a larger spaceship which is actually flying!
To be concluded! ...Oh, one can only hope.
Okay, I just summed up the whole issue. Sorry for the spoiler if you were planning on reading the issue. What can I say? I’m disappointed. I was expecting something with a little more substance. The movie was deceptively simple, but the comic is, well… just simple.
A two-page waste. "That's right, son. It's a CRANE."
The artwork does a poor job of balancing between “rushed” and “just good enough.” The story itself is slow and feels more like a picture book than a comic. Moreover, my own kids showed very little interest in this comic. Fortunately, the story promises to be concluded in the next issue. Only the painting on the cover saves it from being a total failure.
Rating: 1 / 5 Stars
About the Author
Harley Jones first discovered geekdom by dismantling portable TVs and wiring them into his GI Joe base. He began programming at age 10 (on a C-64) and was an assistant computer teacher at the local university while still in middle school. When most kids were guffawing at Saturday Night Live, Harley was hi-jacking the family TV for Doctor Who on public television. He's a huge Tolkien-ite and classic cartoon fan. He earned an English Lit degree (Studio Art minor) and used it (successfully) to break into the exciting world of IT consulting.He leans towards authors with middle initials (Robert E Howard, Phillip K Dick, J R R Tolkien, George R R Martin, Stephen E King, etc). He reads comics and plays role-playing games. He dreams of talking apes who ride the sand-worms of a magical kingdom which resides in his bottom dresser drawer and is ruled by fluffy little clouds.
Like most people of quality, Harley is a geek. He's married to a closet-geek (she won't admit it, but she can quote every word of Buffy), and is raising two mini-geeks (fun-sized!) Perhaps his proudest geek moment was when his son crawled into bed and asked to watch TV. Harley asked, "Sponge-Bob?" and his son (who could barely talk at the time) squeaked, "Doctor Who, please."