Magnus: Robot Fighter is the second installment of Jim Shooter’s re-birth of classic Gold Key comics from the 1960’s; a few weeks ago I reviewed Dr. Solar issue 1. Although Dr. Solar was good, Magnus was even better. The issue starts out with pure action, in fact the whole issue is almost non-stop robot destruction at the hands of Magnus. Aside from the great action, this issue does a better job of showing Magnus’ background than the first issue of Dr. Solar did with Dr. Solar; the issue features a nice mini story about how 1-A raised Magnus to become the robot-fighting machine he grew to be. The art in the issue had this special feel to it, it made me reminisce of 60’s style art, but it also had that feel of modern day to it too, which was very intriguing. As for the writing, I felt as though Shooter’s story was more retro in its nature, reminding me of comics from the 60’s and keeping the natural feel of the character.
The issue kept an all around good feel to it during its duration, and has a very good ending that will have the reader wanting the second issue to come out. In addition to the action packed first installment of this arc, this issue, like Dr. Solar, had an extra story attached to it that is a re-print of the original Magnus: Robot Fighter from 1963. The issue gives insight as to what has been kept from the old series and what has been changed for the new. All-around, this issue was solid.
7 out of 10
*Originally Posted on the Chris' Comics Official Website
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