Re-Reading: Magnus Robot Fighter #7
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Re-Reading: Magnus Robot Fighter #7
I thought we could do a book a day (that way people can read one every day or catch up on weekends), talk about it on its own, in the context of whats next, in regards to what expectations it creates and vote on how good it is. I don't have to be the one that posts everyday. If I miss a day or if someone wants to take over please do
For voting think of your single favourite comic book (not just VALIANT) as the benchmark - thats a 10 - and grade according to that.
Make sure to mention what you like'd about the book, what you didn't, what you wish they would have done, your favourite panels, lines of dialogue, little bits of trivia etc.
Magnus Robot Fighter #7
For voting think of your single favourite comic book (not just VALIANT) as the benchmark - thats a 10 - and grade according to that.
Make sure to mention what you like'd about the book, what you didn't, what you wish they would have done, your favourite panels, lines of dialogue, little bits of trivia etc.
Magnus Robot Fighter #7
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Daniel Jackson
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Cool cover, one side has Magnus leveling Rai and the other has Rai returning the favor. I love the conversation Magnus has with 1-A as he attempts to fix Grandmother...Magnus: "Was Grandmother your lover? You never told me you had a girlfriend." 1-A: "Why must I tell you everything? Cannot I have a personal life of my own"? Great book.
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Daniel Jackson wrote:Cool cover, one side has Magnus leveling Rai and the other has Rai returning the favor. I love the conversation Magnus has with 1-A as he attempts to fix Grandmother...Magnus: "Was Grandmother your lover? You never told me you had a girlfriend." 1-A: "Why must I tell you everything? Cannot I have a personal life of my own"? Great book.
great stuff
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Todd Luck
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We begin with absolute defeat and magnus (as always) performs a miracle to turn things around. The scene with 1-A and Magnus rebooting Grandmother was funny and suspenseful. As anyone who's ever had problems with a computer knows, nothing is more suspenceful than a reboot 
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Again we set up to get Rai and Magnus to fight over your cliched misunderstanding but, instead, have Magnus aviod conflict with a few calm words. Later we actually give a real reason why these two would come to blows in a great decisive fight (no cheap crap where they're interupted before one of them can win). The panel with Rai plowing through the ground from Magnus' blow with the baseball is still one of the most painful panels in a comic (but atleast Rai took the base )
All this epic drama and the most powerful image in the comic is still poor little Takasha crying on the last page.
Great stuff. A 9.
.Again we set up to get Rai and Magnus to fight over your cliched misunderstanding but, instead, have Magnus aviod conflict with a few calm words. Later we actually give a real reason why these two would come to blows in a great decisive fight (no cheap crap where they're interupted before one of them can win). The panel with Rai plowing through the ground from Magnus' blow with the baseball is still one of the most painful panels in a comic (but atleast Rai took the base
)All this epic drama and the most powerful image in the comic is still poor little Takasha crying on the last page.
Great stuff. A 9.
Seaborn's synopsis (of the Magnus part):
While chaos and destruction reign in the Host Body of Japan, Magnus does his best to help the people. Taking a nerve path to the skull dome, Magnus finds Rai grieving over Grandmother’s death. Rai immediately assumes that Magnus was responsible, as Grandmother warned that the Robot Fighter had been recruited by the Humanists. But Magnus points out the remnants of the carcinopod as the true culprit in Grandmother’s downfall. With certain death awaiting those trapped within the Host Body, and an alien invasion fleet on the way, Rai decides to get his son and flee Japan. Magnus stays in the skull dome to see if he can somehow repair Grandmother.
Presently, 1-A arrives in the skull dome. Using 1-A’s power/personality core, an attempt is made to reboot Grandmother. At first, it seems a failure, but then Grandmother’s immobile body reanimates. Magnus discovers that, with 1-A’s circuits merged with Grandmother, the two Freewills are effectively married into one entity. Across the Host Body, life-support systems come back on line. Grand-One can now help turn back the arriving invasion fleet, but one of Grand-One’s arms was lost in the earlier death-throes. Without it, the Host Body cannot be brought to offensive action. Magnus must take a special energy key to the connection point of the Host Body’s analogous arm and effectively amputate the massive extremity.
Magnus rushes to the junction point. But before he can use the key, he is tackled by Rai. It seems that Rai’s son is within the arm to be amputated and will surely die if Magnus carries out his mission. Rai askes that Magnus give him ten minutes to find his son, but Magnus refuses. So Rai breaks the special key and continues on to seek his son.
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While chaos and destruction reign in the Host Body of Japan, Magnus does his best to help the people. Taking a nerve path to the skull dome, Magnus finds Rai grieving over Grandmother’s death. Rai immediately assumes that Magnus was responsible, as Grandmother warned that the Robot Fighter had been recruited by the Humanists. But Magnus points out the remnants of the carcinopod as the true culprit in Grandmother’s downfall. With certain death awaiting those trapped within the Host Body, and an alien invasion fleet on the way, Rai decides to get his son and flee Japan. Magnus stays in the skull dome to see if he can somehow repair Grandmother.
Presently, 1-A arrives in the skull dome. Using 1-A’s power/personality core, an attempt is made to reboot Grandmother. At first, it seems a failure, but then Grandmother’s immobile body reanimates. Magnus discovers that, with 1-A’s circuits merged with Grandmother, the two Freewills are effectively married into one entity. Across the Host Body, life-support systems come back on line. Grand-One can now help turn back the arriving invasion fleet, but one of Grand-One’s arms was lost in the earlier death-throes. Without it, the Host Body cannot be brought to offensive action. Magnus must take a special energy key to the connection point of the Host Body’s analogous arm and effectively amputate the massive extremity.
Magnus rushes to the junction point. But before he can use the key, he is tackled by Rai. It seems that Rai’s son is within the arm to be amputated and will surely die if Magnus carries out his mission. Rai askes that Magnus give him ten minutes to find his son, but Magnus refuses. So Rai breaks the special key and continues on to seek his son.
/Magnus
Seaborn's synopsis (of the Rai part):
The Anti-Grannies realize that they have been betrayed by their “arms dealer”. Kazuyo goes off in search of him. Ch’in dons the Commando-Class X-O War Armor and overpower her. Rai and Magnus fight over the best course of action. Solar engages the Alien armada. Rai is persuaded by Magnus to sever the paralyzed limb of Japan. Grandmother enters fight mode and Japan lifts into space to battle the Alien
armada.
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The Anti-Grannies realize that they have been betrayed by their “arms dealer”. Kazuyo goes off in search of him. Ch’in dons the Commando-Class X-O War Armor and overpower her. Rai and Magnus fight over the best course of action. Solar engages the Alien armada. Rai is persuaded by Magnus to sever the paralyzed limb of Japan. Grandmother enters fight mode and Japan lifts into space to battle the Alien
armada.
/Magnus