Johnathan | November 7, 2009
I’ve been ever so nostalgic since reading Doom Patrol this week, as the Metal Men are now all set to have a scrap with another group of robots - robots with their own sassy theme, yet! This is the classic Metal Men plot, along with anti-robot racism and forbidden robot/human love. In honour of the [...]
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Tags: bismuth, Forbidden Love, lead, magnesium, Mercury, metal men, nickel, Some Robots, steel, zirconium
Johnathan | July 24, 2007
It’s that time again: time to make critical assessments of fictional robots that were created forty years ago. We must be silent no longer! This time we’re going to look at the Gas Gang - a group of evil robots based on… gases. When you get right down to it, this is an odd idea, [...]
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Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Chloroform, Doc Magnus, Gas Gang, Helium, metal men, Oxygen, Parade Hater Horace, Some Robots
Johnathan | July 8, 2007
Hey there, robot fans! John Review here, fresh from a weekend of debauchery and recovery from the same, with another look at some of those wacky anthropomorphic elements from the pages of Metal Men comics. I was kind of thinking of reviewing the Gas Gang today but don’t really have the mental stamina required to [...]
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Tags: Arsenic, Doc Magnus, Francium, metal men, Potassium, Shakespeare, Some Robots, Technetium
Johnathan | June 25, 2007
Boy oh boy do I have big news! Remember how last time around I showed you the first appearance of Silver and Copper as made-up extra Metal Men? How they were just kind of standing on a beach, all generic and miscoloured? Well evidently they realized that they hadn’t made too good an impression the [...]
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Johnathan | June 10, 2007
Ah, the Metal Men. They, in all of their vaguely-educational glory, are my latest semi-obsession.
Assuming that someone who’s not a comic book nerd is reading this, a quick description of the Metal Men and what they stood for:
The Metal Men were a group of robots created by Dr. Will Magnus. Thanks to a bit of [...]
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Tags: Alchemy, Antimony, Arsenic, Copper, Doc Magnus, Gold, Mercury, metal men, Platinum, Silver, Some Robots, Tin
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