When this book was first announced, readers can’t be blamed for wondering how Russell and Deodato would pair together. Is it better to see civilization live on in fear and subservience or live on to die off naturally in certain extinction as we burn through our resources and continue to multiply at an alarming rate?Īs for the interior coloring, Deodato does serviceable work positioning the narrative for our eyes. Lesser-evilism is a concept at the heart of, “Not All Robots.” Witty dialogue and some cheeky shots at the City of Orlando mask a high concept debate about the irresponsibility of mankind and the ever-present danger of a mechanical race manufactured to the peak of efficiency, strength and intelligence.

Under advisement Odysseus chooses, “the lesser of two evils,” and opts to lose a few sailors sneaking past Scylla, rather than risk his entire crew sinking within the whirlpools of Charybdis. Odysseus’s choices were to move in one direction passed the six-headed sea monster Scylla, or to bring his crew up against the other direction and the Whirlpool beats Charybdis. In Homer’s, “The Odyssey,” Odysseus and his crew arrive at a fork in their journey as they move against the Straight of Messina. I Not All Robots #1, writer Mark Russell and artist Mike Deodato, Jr., tackle these questions and more with a twinge of satire, combining questions around A.I. What will be their primary purpose? How much power will we vest in them? Can we trust them? How much of their programming and the consequences therein are we as a species responsible for? And in return, the robots themselves have given mixed answers and results much like the humans that design them. As technology inches towards true AI functionality, many questions pose important debates. By Larry Jorash - Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic of conversation in recent years.

Not All Robots by Mark Russell