While Not All Robots is hardly the most subtle piece of satire Mark Russell has ever written, it is probably the most necessary. The colors by Lee Loughridge offer the perfect finish to the pencils and inks and Steve Wands’ lettering is as fine as ever. I think I speak for most comic fans when I say that is nonsense and the work here is some of the finest in Deodato’s career. Deodato has his own essay at the end of the book, where he speaks about the difficulty of drawing robots and how they aren’t something that fits into his particular wheelhouse. While certain actors will no doubt rally against the book’s message and script, it cannot be denied that Mike Deodato Jr. Personally, I think Russell did a fine job of presenting the metaphor in the text, but then again I’m one of those woke sorts who can see the parallels between men encouraging other men to use the techniques described in pick-up artist books and robots telling other robots they need to turn off their empathy chip so that they don’t feel bad about humans suffering.Ĭlick on the above image to view the full-size page in another tab. This is, perhaps, redundant, but the editors apparently asked Russell to spell it out for those who really need to have the message of this comic driven home to them. As writer Mark Russell explains in an essay at the end of this first issue, the world of Not All Robots was inspired by his thoughts on traditional male and female gender roles and how, as women rallied against men who used power and position to exploit women, many men stepped up to say “Well, hey, you know men get exploited too!” in defense of a bad system. Not All Robots was born of the #MeToo movement and, unsurprisingly given the title, the counter #NotAllMen movement which followed.

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Not All Robots by Mark Russell