Sorry, OCP’s not my type.
RoboCop #5
Marvel Comics (July, 1990)
“War” part one: “War Monger” WRITER: Alan Grant PENCILER: Lee Sullivan INKER: Kim DeMulder COLORIST: Steve White LETTERER: Richard Starkings EDITOR: Gregory Wright
OCP turns RoboCop into a soldier and sends him against a rebel in a war that has been mentioned in Media Break segments of previous issues. The comic is just Murphy working through the rebel’s traps.
I picked up the RoboCop comics in back issue. It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure I picked them up at the same time, but I don’t know if they were in the discount bin or not. What I do know is that I wasn’t really impressed. Looking at them now I think this is the one that really cut me off. Alex Murphy was turned into RoboCop due to his many years of police training, and we learned in the second movie that his sense of duty, Irish Catholic upbringing, and being a family man were benefits for him becoming RoboCop when others didn’t make it once seeing themselves as cyborgs.
Military training and police training are different things, even in Old Detroit. I have a problem with putting RoboCop into the role of “RoboSoldier”. Sure it was cool seeing him avoid all those traps but this isn’t a story I want to see with this character. But the series overall left me cold. I said in an earlier review that it felt like reading a lighter version of Judge Dread. The technology is too advanced for the RoboCop universe at this time, Lewis was often an afterthought (compare to the first animated series) instead of Alex’s partner as she was in the second movie. I just didn’t feel like I was reading RoboCop stories, although admittedly some of them were good stories.
That’s why I can’t fully recommend this series but I can’t chase you off, either. While it didn’t interest me and it wasn’t a very good RoboCop continuation (yet better than Alpha Commando or Sci-Fi’s Dark Justice movie–I didn’t bother with the other three “Prime Directives” miniseries episodes after that one) but I can’t say they’re bad stories. If you come across them, look them over and judge for yourself. I’m just not that into them.
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