Wednesday 4 September 2013

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 6 - Grin And Bear It!

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 6 - Grin And Bear It!

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 68

DATELINE
10 June 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1 and The Best Of 2000AD Monthly 49.

SYNOPSIS
Suddenly Walter is alone in the lab.

FIRSTS & LASTS
First six part Walter The Wobot strip.

INFORMATION
Luna City has a Central Park.

WALTER THE WOBOT
He witnesses two suicides in as many seconds.



OTHER CHARACTERS
DOC FRANKENHEIM
His laboratory is on the fifty-third floor of a building.

DEATHS
Two? Frankenheim dies from a 53 storey fall and possibly so does Ygor.

BEST LINES
Walter: "Poor Doc! Walter better wetweat."

WORST LINES
Ygor: "Whimper"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says cawwying, cwikey, cwy, wemarkable, wetweat, while Ygor says mashter,

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Unknown.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Steve Potter

REVIEW
A teddy bear suicide and possible subsequent embrace from a child. I did not see that coming. The problem with this story is that Walter is mostly extraneous to the plot and Walter The Wobot works best when he is oddest thing in it.

The Vewy, Vewy End!

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