Robot Wars

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Issue One page 3--The kid who starts it all rolling...

ipokino

on Oct. 12, 2008

Here we have a little boy techie. The original idea for Robot Wars came about as a tool for tutoring a young teen age boy who had reading difficulties. I recognized that comics were a lot of boy’s first stab at reading and I thought the idea of creating a comic might give him impetus to read and write… Sadly tutoring kids was NOT to be a viable job for me, so the Robot Wars idea languished for a couple of years…
The little robot on this page was sadly cheesy. I retrospect I should have taken time to actually create one out of regular props. But since I had only an hour to spend on any one page—so I settled for what you see here…