Hey everybody, Adam Rifkin here, writer of SHMOBOTS! Thanks for checking out my first graphic novel. The idea for SHMOBOTS came to me in a flash of thinking that it might be funny to see a group of pot smoking, slacker robots incometently try to pick up a hooker. At first I considered writing it as a short film, but then I couldn’t help but feel that there was a bigger idea to explore. The bigger idea being that of a whole subculture of stupid, pot smoking robots who don’t work, don’t contribute to society in any productive way, but have an offensive sense of entitlement. I grew up with a lot of kids like that, so I knew what there voices would sound like. I wondered what people might call this subculture of mechanical loser and thus, SHMOBOTS was born.
[...] second “shot” of reviews from BOOM! Studios is Adam Rifkin and Les Toil’s Shmobots, an unusual and amusing blend of Half-Baked and I, Robot. Rifkin and Toil ask us to imagine a world [...]
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July 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I seriously have no idea what happens if you scan the UPC code. Maybe it’s the code for the book?
August 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hey everybody, Adam Rifkin here, writer of SHMOBOTS! Thanks for checking out my first graphic novel. The idea for SHMOBOTS came to me in a flash of thinking that it might be funny to see a group of pot smoking, slacker robots incometently try to pick up a hooker. At first I considered writing it as a short film, but then I couldn’t help but feel that there was a bigger idea to explore. The bigger idea being that of a whole subculture of stupid, pot smoking robots who don’t work, don’t contribute to society in any productive way, but have an offensive sense of entitlement. I grew up with a lot of kids like that, so I knew what there voices would sound like. I wondered what people might call this subculture of mechanical loser and thus, SHMOBOTS was born.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:02 am
[...] Note: BOOM! is currently serializing Shmobots on their website, updating a page a [...]
January 19th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
[...] second “shot” of reviews from BOOM! Studios is Adam Rifkin and Les Toil’s Shmobots, an unusual and amusing blend of Half-Baked and I, Robot. Rifkin and Toil ask us to imagine a world [...]