Hot Damn #2 (of 5)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
Fun with exorcisms! After ticking Satan right off, Teddy and his sponsor Costello hit the streets of Hell for a night of demonic debauchery and a slow, pukey crawl down memory lane. Meanwhile, up in Heaven, someone crapped in angel Adriel’s corn flakes. Spoiler alert: It was God.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Hot Damn #1 (of 4)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
The masterminds of D4VE reunite with HOT DAMN, and they’re taking you straight to Hell. Hard living catches up to Teddy, and eternal damnation awaits—but it’s nothing like the good book tells you. Hell is a therapy session you can never leave…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
D4VE2 #4 (of 4)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
IS THIS THE END OF 34RTH? When D4VE follows the humans back in time before the robot uprising, he is faced with the ultimate dilemma…one that will change history forever. The shocking conclusion to the anticipated second arc!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
D4VE2 #3 (of 4)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
While the mysterious pod remains in the robot’s grasp, D4VE inadvertently finds himself…out of time. *winnnnk* If this ending doesn’t kill you, you’re probably a robot yourself.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
D4VE2 #2 (of 4)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
While the robots scramble to locate the [REDACTED], D4VE gets a new face for a hot date, and 5COTTY becomes a hero. It all comes crashing down when D4VE is faced with a decision that will define him and his entire species.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
D4VE2 # 1 (of 4)
Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)
ONE YEAR LATER. With the world seemingly at peace, things seem pretty all right on 34RTH until a strange ship’s arrival sends D4VE head-first into an existential crisis: an inconceivable blast from the past that threatens not only D4VE’s dwindling relationship with 5COTTY, but all of robot-kind itself!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The everyday struggle of the working man is one inner demon everyone can relate to. The daily toil of going to work, working a 9 to 5, mostly to pay your bills, and for some, career advancement. Then there are those who cannot see beyond where they are now in their jobs, and would not know what to do if they lost their jobs today. For some readers depending on your age, this sounds like the Michael Douglas movie, Falling Down.
I often wondered after watching this movie, how many times has something like what happened to Michael Douglas’s character has happened. Never in a million years, would I think anyone would make fun of office life because of that movie but then Office Space. This movie, showed in ridiculous fashion what would happen if people were in dead end jobs, the numerous ways people would react. Those two movies exemplified the extreme ways office life can affect the normal human being.
So what effect would it have on a robot? This is the question that D4VE, attempts to answer and often to hilarious results. D4VE is about a robot whose original programming has been phased out by updated technology and has to suffer through a dead end job where he daydreams mostly. Within the first few pages, his flashbacks to his glory days and deal with a hellion of a teenage son, while job promotes to an even worse position. D4VE finally has a purpose in life, as he fights the new alien threat with the help of his son, whiles his wife, and leaves him, because she can’t take anymore of his crap. By the end of the first volume, he not only becomes a hero again but inspires his son to join the new armed forces.
This series is more than the triumph of the everyday man, but is a mix between Bicentennial Man and John Belushi’s Neighbors. The story by Ryan Ferrier, is more than tongue in cheek, but delivers in spades the humor, humanity, and parody of a classic SNL sketch. The art by Valentin Ramon, is completely flawless, his style reminds of Fiona Staples. Overall, a great comic, which not only made me laugh but I ended up identifying with it in many ways.
Story: Ryan Ferrier Art: Valentin Ramon
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: BUY NOW
IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review.
Primetime TV; mortgages; traffic jams. The robots conquered earth, wiping out all life in the galaxy, but nothing changed. Meet D4VE, the greatest robot war hero, now trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job. Can something, somewhere snap him out of this slump? This is D4VE’s mid-life. Crisis.
Originally released as a digital series by Monkeybrain, D4VE has come to print courtesy of IDW Publishing. Written by Ryan Ferrier, with art by Valentin Ramon, the series speaks to everyone who has a life draining desk job, and dreams of glory and excitement.
The first issue is fantastic hitting all the right notes and is beyond relateable for desk jockeys. Now only do we get to know the main character D4ve pretty well, but we’re also introduced to the world where robots have taken over… and pretty much killed every living thing in the galaxy.
The first issue reminds me of great workplace comedies like Office Space, The Office (both versions), and even a bit of Workaholics. It just nails it, when it comes to working a boring desk job, and the tedious life that often is associated with it. The lack of excitement oozes off the page. The fact this is all done with robots is even more entertaining, creating a world just different enough to be even more entertaining.
Ferrier is complimented by the art of Ramon who takes a gold robotic world, and somehow makes it familiar and not so foreign. It’s a great combination of writer and artist.
For those who missed the series when it first came out, now’s your chance to grab it in print. I guarantee when you’re done, you’ll be downloading all the issues available digitally so that you can “catch up.” It’s that good. That fun. That entertaining.
Story: Ryan Ferrier Art: Valentin Ramon
Story: 8.75 Art: 8.75 Overall: 8.75 Recommendation: Buy
IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
The partnership between IDW Publishing and Monkeybrain has brought some of the most critically acclaimed digital comic-book series to an entirely new readership, and both are pleased to welcome another to the printed page: D4VE.
A war for Earth was fought and the robots have won but the results are far less “brave new world” and more of the “same old, same old.” Starting February 2015, fans of print comics will get the opportunity to meet D4VE, a great robot war hero who now is trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job.
D4VE is the brainchild of series writer Ryan Ferrier and artist Valentin Ramon. In the five-issue series, D4VE battles traffic, mortgage payments, and the mundane when all he wants to do is battle monsters like in his glory days. But those days are gone…right? Little does D4VE know that something big is going to help snap him out of this mid-life: crisis.
Come early 2015, you can check out the five-issue miniseries that Bloody Disgusting calls “a master class in robotic mid-life crisis… ripe with laughs” and featuring a first-issue cover by Fiona Staples.
Writer: Ryan Ferrier
Artist: Valentin Ramon
Price: $0.99
Pages: 22
Rating: 17+
Without power or hope, the robots fall at the hands of the K’laar empire. This is the shocking series conclusion of D4VE.
