Title: D4ve #1 (of 5) Writer: Ryan Ferrier Artist: Valentin Ramon Publisher: IDW Price: 3.99 Release Date: 02/25/15 Reviewed by: David Melton
D4ve is a robot. Everyone, actually, is a robot now ( we’ll get to that in just a bit), but he used to be important. He used to be known as a defense bot that fought humans, monsters, aliens, etc. and now he’s just… a dude. Now that all of mankind has been wiped from existence, the robots don’t know what to do with themselves so they start living as people did. He has a family, a boring job that he hates, a boss he hates even more, and a propensity to drink too much. His days are often interrupted by memories of the past. Memories of when he meant something. He tries to find those glory days hidden at the bottom of a bottle of oil, or inside of a strip club, but soon he’ll have to decide if the life he hates so much is actually something worth saving.
Ryan Ferrier brings D4ve to life and with him the fascinating world he lives in, showing how anything that inhabits earth will fall into the same routine; working, drinking, creating families, begging for money. While most of the issue is centered around what they’ve been up to since humans became extinct, Ferrier also works in a problem for them to deal with, and the problem looks pretty big.
Valentin Ramon delivers the goods when it comes to the art. Hilarious panels mixed with brilliant visuals keep your eyes fixed onto the page. One of my favorite pages is the one of D4ve standing outside in the early hours of the morning with his cup of coffee (most likely just hot oil) and the steam from his cup drifts to D4ve’s left and blends in with the clouds that hover over the city. It was a lot of fun to scour the pages looking for anything that is familiar to us from every day life but seeing how Ramon tweaked it just a bit to fit the Robot lifestyle (like the box of cereal that says “Iron Loops”). There’s a strip club scene and the look on one of the robots’ face that’s closest to center stage made me laugh for quite a while.
Both creators fill these pages with comedy, drama, and the mundane stuff that makes up every day of our lives. D4ve should not be missed. I’m already wishing it was longer than five issues, but I can’t wait to see what these guys have in store for this character.
D4ve #1 Review "Should not be missed" CC: @ryanwriter @IDWPublishing Title: D4ve #1 (of 5) Writer: Ryan Ferrier Artist: Valentin Ramon Publisher: IDW Price: 3.99 Release Date: 02/25/15…