Astro Boy 10
December 2, 2007
I’m still not quite as enamored with this series as I was when I was reading the “Origins of Astro” story a few volumes ago, but there’s some decent stories in this volume, and you have to appreciate the insanity of these stories, because it’s like reading a small-scale version of a Tezuka epic every time.
The first story is about a planet-shaping robot made by aliens being sent to Earth by mistake. Garon is the robot’s name. I actually kind of liked this story, if only because Garon literally had no weakness whatsoever, and Astro couldn’t beat him in a fight. Duke Red was in this story.
There was another good story about 5 psychic French kids who are intercepted by aliens who are set on destroying the planet, since it was that alien who made mankind millions of years ago. Yeah, it was something like that, and it was totally serious. Sorry for the light spoiler, but I think it’s important that you know the alien was slurped up by cows in the end.
The best story, and the most disturbing, was one which involved giving Astro a body which had been aged 10 years. The same superpowers and everything were in this body, it was just older-looking. The villain was an international conman that wanted Astro’s original body. Co-starred Mr. James “Dnob” and the conman’s name was word play-ish as well.
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