The first webcomic to be reviewed is one called We the Robots, and immediately upon reading it, I realized I’d stepped into an arena I was woefully unprepared for, given my rather straight and narrow outlook on life.

However, despite that, I’ll do my best and use my Power of Peerless Prose ™, rather than the Power of the Infinite Windbag ™. If pressured for an opinion, I’d give Robots 2 out of 5 stars. Why? I’m glad you asked.

For one, the comic’s art isn’t really all that impressive. It looks like a great many other webcomics, i.e., simple and without anything resembling fanciness, or perhaps as though the person didn’t really feel they needed to put a lot of work into the drawings themselves. Stick figures meets a how to draw heads course, neither one of them working.

Another negative were the stories themselves. I constantly got the impression as I read that the creators were trying to draw those heavy symbolisms between humanity’s foibles through the examples of the robots. Case in point, the strip in which the robot sits, simply staring at the television for 4 panels.(October 15, 2007) Obviously some kind of comment on the mindlessness of television, but hasn’t that about been done to death? Those types of examples abound; overall the strip simply tries too hard to be “with it,” as they used to say, but instead comes off more as a strip in which you’d scratch your head and say “Huh?” more often than not. Entertainment, guys. Entertainment.

Finally, the comic is entirely too willing to use harsh or crude language, seemingly just for the sake of using it. Like theatre when I was in college, it seems to be put in simply because it can be, or as though they want to show how cool and modern they are by having their characters resort to vulgarity when it isnt necessary. Best case in point, the comic of October 12, 2007, in which the robots are talking about someone named “Superbot” and for no apparent or good reason, the strip ends with “Superbot would punch them in the C*CK!” Now….the point or reason for that was? I’m neither a prude nor a Bible thumper, but come on. Use some imagination, guys.

So there you have it, my review. No doubt many will not like it, and for that all I can say is not “Im sorry,” but instead, “that’s my opinion and only holds true to me.” Enjoy!

Rating:

We the Robots
by Chris Harding
http://www.wetherobots.com/
review by The Doctor

(6 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)

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