Lady Robotika #1-Image Comics-$3.50
3 out of 5 stars
Creators: Jane Wiedlin (guitarist for The Go-Gos) and Bill Morrison.
Summary (Spoiler Alert): E’Death, a clear depiction of a villainess, asks a man named Jasper the location of Lady Robotika’s club house. He refuses to give her the information, so E’Death is going to give him an updated version of waterboarding. Lady Robitka/Jane Wiedlin breaks into E’Death’s place. The Iron Maidens, E’Death’s metal-clad female minions, come after her. She uses her Miracle Whip to fight them off. Then, Jane breaks off into what lead her into the Lady Robotika life.
Lady Robotika’s journey started with a series of weird “dreams.” In her first major dream, she is strapped down on an examining table surrounded by aliens. One alien updated her cell phone with new apps: the ability to create wormholes, the ability to manipulate time and space, and the ability to post twitter updates to Alpha Centauri. Then, she was examined by a Probuloid, a robot with a needle arm.
She “wakes up” backstage at her next show. Her manager, Austin, signed an endorsement deal with a musician supply company. They want her to use a new amp. Jane freaks out on stage because the new amp looks a lot like the Probuloid. Her playing is a little off, because of her fear of the new amp. She’s sees a man in the audience whose appearance makes her feel safer. The mystery man meets her after the show. His name is Jasper.
They decide to go out for a drink, but as soon as they get into Jane’s car a tractor beam from a spaceship starts to pull them up. They wake up on the spaceship and Jasper makes the genius idea that they must be on a weird Syfy channel reality show. The aliens are from Herron IV and their spaceship is called the Millennium Falcon. One alien has Spider Man hands and even captures Jane with one of his hand shot webs. The references to Star Wars and Spider Man are totally on purpose, because the aliens of Herron IV turn out to be total Earthling pop culture junkies. Their emperor, Yecchh, is a big fan of Jane’s music and they kidnapped her, because they want her to play a concert for him. They were going to put Jasper through more experiments and then enslave him, but Jane told them that he was Ace Frehley of Kiss. Jane agrees to do the show, since she doesn’t want to die. Jasper and Jane rest on the spaceship. When Jane wakes up, she has a new robotic arm.
Writers (Jane Wiedlin and Bill Morrison): The storyline is good except for the fact that they end the comic without explaining who E’Death is and why she is out to get Lady Robotika. That’s how they get you to buy more issues. I’m also not a fan of her weapon being named after a mayo, but now that I know the Herronians gave her the robotic arm and that they love pop culture, I’m going to guess that they named it.
Illustrators (Bill Morrison and Tone Rodriguez): The Iron Maidens look like sleek Cybermen, but the aliens look like the green lizard humanoids that have been seen a dozen times before.
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