The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Comics legend Miller (Batman: Year One) and Darrow (Shaolin Cowboy) lead this two-act reissue of the 1996 monster mayhem graphic collection. The oversized format is perfect for what amounts to two colossal battles, with the American robot "the Big Guy" and his Japanese sidekick "Rusty the Boy Robot" facing horrors of humanity's own creation. The lead story takes place in Japan, with Big Guy rescuing Tokyo and Rusty from a genetic experiment gone awry that becomes an appalling, alliterative, awesome antagonist inhabited by an ancient evil. This not-Godzilla breathes atomic fire and turns humans into monstrous minions with its saliva, but, ultimately, the Big Guy prevails. The second fight is staged in America, where the waters of Moonsanto Bay belch forth a monster warned of by the Environmental Protection Agency. While Rusty alerts the slovenly Americans to leave the beach, Big Guy whoops mutant crayfish butt. The art of Darrow and company is highly detailed and less than flattering of its human subjects. Faux cover shots from nonexistent issues of the comic fill out this package.