D4VE

PUBLISHER: IDW
Writer: Ryan Ferrier
Art: Valentin Ramon

The Lube Tunnel, yeah!

D4VE answers all the questions you’ve ever asked about robots:
Can they get drunk? YES
Can they hold down jobs? YES
How do they have children? ORDER them of course.
Can robots have a mid-life crisis? YES

D4VE takes place in the far-flung robotic future after D4VE and his brethren have ‘cleared’ the entire galaxy. First they wiped out humanity, then wiped out everyone else.

We meet D4VE while he is daydreaming at his job, instead of working. We follow him in this first issue as he spirals into a mid-life crisis, longing for the days when he was a defense-bot. Now he is married, with an ORDERED son and a charge-sucking office job, and he can’t even remember the oil.

D4VE is a beautifully drawn and written title that is a great take on humanity and getting old . . . aka mid-life crisis. It is a metaphor for, and a parody of, what it means to be human. It showcases how stagnation can set into an individual and a society as a whole, when there is nothing to achieve and there is little desire to do anything.

D4VE may get his wish, unbeknownst to him a group of Bug like aliens have landed.

Now, the most important question, do you want to hang out with D4VE? YES. It will be good for your soul.

FINAL THOUGHTS: There is no doubt, D4VE is required reading.

RATING: 8