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Pick of the Week: The Roberts #1

Monday, September 8th, 2008 – running time 03:23
It's so nice to find something new, and Ron's Pick of the Week, The Roberts #1 is just that.

Here's the pitch: The Boston Strangler and the Zodiac Killer were never found out, and it turns out they're both living in the same retirement home. And there's your story. It doesn't hurt that in this first issue from Image Comics, writer Wayne Chinsang and artist Erik Rose do a real fine job of getting into the heads of these characters, and show you exactly what that might be like.

Read Ron's full Pick of the Week Review here!

Highlights
retirement home ( 0:50, 1:28, 1:39, 2:15, 2:38, 2:51, 0:50, 1:28, 1:39, 2:15, 2:38, 2:51 ) retirement age ( 1:26, 1:26 ) Boston strangler ( 0:46, 1:31, 2:36, 0:46, 1:31, 2:36 ) Labor Day ( 0:15, 0:15 ) retirement home ( 0:50, 1:28, 1:39, 2:15, 2:38, 2:51, 0:50, 1:28, 1:39, 2:15, 2:38, 2:51 ) retirement age ( 1:26, 1:26 ) Boston strangler ( 0:46, 1:31, 2:36, 0:46, 1:31, 2:36 ) Labor Day ( 0:15, 0:15 )

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" Wow. Hey welcome to another edition of my family many -- is Ron Richards I'm here with your pick of the week for last week actually. This -- so it was a delayed a little do the Labor Day holiday weekend. But it's elastic last Wednesday. Had you know modest act of comics not a whole lot of stuff came out which I was really glad that's what happened because it gave me opportunity check out the Robert's number one. The -- number one is published by image comics across 599. -- pretty steep price tag but it's worth it is over 48 pages is a sticker book he sees double perfect bound kind of you know the -- that's that's on the pages are. This -- one of two and this is what we call high concept -- book this takes the idea of what if the Boston strangler. And the zodiac killer. Ended up in the same retirement home. -- there's a high concept. In -- in -- thing about that is that touches upon a couple of things who doesn't concert serial -- fascinating I do the zodiac killer is one of the topics -- the -- of the David -- became -- last -- zodiac was awesome on the Boston -- I don't don't know as much -- I know that's an -- but I do know that these -- both unit -- this murderers in American history who never got caught a lot of people thought that they -- or maybe they got -- for some of the crime but their identities as the serial -- was never revealed. But it's conceivable that maybe they age and now in the two thousands there at -- retirement age and they would check into a retirement home. The Robert's number one focuses on the Boston strangler who according to this book is a guy named Robert Kenneth -- her. And he's living in this is boring. Retirement home when a new guy comes in and a guy by the name Robert as well. And he reveals himself to be easily killer and they see that they have some things in common. The good really good it was written by Wayne ginseng and just -- And -- was by -- rose and what's interesting is that the black and white comic is an Independent comic which allows a little more -- it is not as much in this typical -- book superhero troops -- Independent comics -- do stories like this is completely fictional nobody -- is at a -- in the windows of the -- trailers -- not -- in a retirement -- together but the idea of what if they were together and what is there you know kind of desires to kill people were kind of brought back in this retirement home. Environment it allows a lot of interest -- things happen. You think that this was done kind of with kind of humor or kind of you know kind of the hokey. Not at all it's dead serious and the art of our grows really delivers a dead seriousness is not a black and -- is a lot of shading a lot of kind of suspense I was on his machine seat reading -- because -- following the Boston strangler as he sees this new guy come into retirement home and you -- have an idea that new premise that's probably the zodiac killer. And you want to know what does this mean where's -- going to go in n.s in great cliff hanger and I -- in the next issue is an focus in on the zodiac killer and then show what these two guys the other in this retirement home we're gonna do. It's like accomplish unlike any -- reading right now so you definitely check it out. -- 59 and so expensive it's probably going to be the two issues to be collected -- smaller -- Iraq which -- probably be about ten -- he might want to wait for that but either way don't -- don't miss the -- number one -- great -- of -- image -- published it and you a check -- other -- that -- last taking -- I think -- would -- such comics as much at all rather videos he had -- revision three dot com -- I sent them by. Six."

" Wow. Hey welcome to another edition of my family many -- is Ron Richards I'm here with your pick of the week for last week actually. This -- so it was a delayed a little do the Labor Day holiday weekend. But it's elastic last Wednesday. Had you know modest act of comics not a whole lot of stuff came out which I was really glad that's what happened because it gave me opportunity check out the Robert's number one. The -- number one is published by image comics across 599. -- pretty steep price tag but it's worth it is over 48 pages is a sticker book he sees double perfect bound kind of you know the -- that's that's on the pages are. This -- one of two and this is what we call high concept -- book this takes the idea of what if the Boston strangler. And the zodiac killer. Ended up in the same retirement home. -- there's a high concept. In -- in -- thing about that is that touches upon a couple of things who doesn't concert serial -- fascinating I do the zodiac killer is one of the topics -- the -- of the David -- became -- last -- zodiac was awesome on the Boston -- I don't don't know as much -- I know that's an -- but I do know that these -- both unit -- this murderers in American history who never got caught a lot of people thought that they -- or maybe they got -- for some of the crime but their identities as the serial -- was never revealed. But it's conceivable that maybe they age and now in the two thousands there at -- retirement age and they would check into a retirement home. The Robert's number one focuses on the Boston strangler who according to this book is a guy named Robert Kenneth -- her. And he's living in this is boring. Retirement home when a new guy comes in and a guy by the name Robert as well. And he reveals himself to be easily killer and they see that they have some things in common. The good really good it was written by Wayne ginseng and just -- And -- was by -- rose and what's interesting is that the black and white comic is an Independent comic which allows a little more -- it is not as much in this typical -- book superhero troops -- Independent comics -- do stories like this is completely fictional nobody -- is at a -- in the windows of the -- trailers -- not -- in a retirement -- together but the idea of what if they were together and what is there you know kind of desires to kill people were kind of brought back in this retirement home. Environment it allows a lot of interest -- things happen. You think that this was done kind of with kind of humor or kind of you know kind of the hokey. Not at all it's dead serious and the art of our grows really delivers a dead seriousness is not a black and -- is a lot of shading a lot of kind of suspense I was on his machine seat reading -- because -- following the Boston strangler as he sees this new guy come into retirement home and you -- have an idea that new premise that's probably the zodiac killer. And you want to know what does this mean where's -- going to go in n.s in great cliff hanger and I -- in the next issue is an focus in on the zodiac killer and then show what these two guys the other in this retirement home we're gonna do. It's like accomplish unlike any -- reading right now so you definitely check it out. -- 59 and so expensive it's probably going to be the two issues to be collected -- smaller -- Iraq which -- probably be about ten -- he might want to wait for that but either way don't -- don't miss the -- number one -- great -- of -- image -- published it and you a check -- other -- that -- last taking -- I think -- would -- such comics as much at all rather videos he had -- revision three dot com -- I sent them by. Six."