{"id":3744,"date":"2015-02-13T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2015-02-13T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:11:02","slug":"book-review-robot-god-akamatsu-by-james-biggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-robot-god-akamatsu-by-james-biggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Robot God Akamatsu by James Biggie, illustrated by Frankie B. Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DPZAET4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00DPZAET4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=monstlibra-20&amp;linkId=I26A7DJX6VS6X4Y6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00DPZAET4&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=monstlibra-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00DPZAET4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&lt;a%20href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DPZAET4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00DPZAET4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=monstlibra-20&amp;linkId=I26A7DJX6VS6X4Y6&quot;&gt;Robot God Akamatsu, Volume 1, Graphic Novel&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00DPZAET4&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; \/&gt;\"><em>Robot God Akamatsu, Vol. 1\u00a0<\/em><\/a> by James Biggie, illustrated by Frankie B. Washington, and lettered by Josh Van Reyk<\/p>\n<p>Zetabella Publishing, 2013<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: \u00a09781927384152<\/p>\n<p>Available: Graphic novel hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Robot God Akamatsu<\/em> is the first volume of a YA graphic novel series. Back in the days of Atlantis, humanity was protected by the titular Robot God Akamatsu and the three pilots who operated the robot god from a space station orbiting the Earth. To engage the Robot God, they would invoke the term<em> Deus Ex Machina<\/em>, which translates literally to \u201cgod from the machine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the present day, Akamatsu is recovered and brought back online in time to fight his brother, URU. URU is the lord of Kaiju (sea monsters) and is currently exiled to a place called the Abbation plane. Now that Akamatsu has been awoken, URU plots to use the Robot God\u2019s power source to bring URU and his horde of monstrous warriors to Earth. For once, the action all occurs around the city of Boston, and New York City is spared destruction.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very fun graphic novel. I would like to see Biggie and Washington create further installments in the epic battle of Akamatsu and URU. This is recommended for readers of comic books, and lovers of Kaiju and classic robot sci-fi. If you enjoyed <em>Pacific Rim<\/em>, this is the graphic novel for you. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Contains: Comic book mayhem<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Benjamin Franz<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robot God Akamatsu, Vol. 1\u00a0 by James Biggie, illustrated by Frankie B. Washington, and lettered by Josh Van Reyk Zetabella Publishing, 2013 ISBN-13: \u00a09781927384152 Available: Graphic novel hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition &nbsp; Robot God Akamatsu is the first volume of a YA graphic novel series. Back in the days of Atlantis, humanity was protected by<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-robot-god-akamatsu-by-james-biggie\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,188,1167,1527,11,41],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-graphic-novels","tag-kaiju","tag-pacific-rim","tag-readers-advisory","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}