Product DescriptionThis teen, sci-fi drama created to appeal to readers all ages shows one contemporary teenager's struggle to find his own voice, to stand up for himself and to discover what it means to be a hero in the 21st century! Oh Yeah and it's also about a boy and his giant robot!
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Rating: - Boy meets robot...
"Sentinel: Salvage" by Sean McKeever
(Marvel Comics, 2004)
This digest-size graphic novel is sort of like "Iron Giant," updated for the post-Columbine era. In it, a high school outcast named Juston Seyfert finds a damaged Sentinel robot, and secretly repairs it in his father's junkyard workshop. Juston (and his friends) are pop-culture geeks and the perpetual bullying target of the school's sadistic lettermen jocks. One of Juston's friends harbors violent Columbine-like fantasies ... Read More
Rating: - Why did Marvel cancel this book?
Marvel comics astounds me. They turn out drek like the last few years of "Uncanny X-Men" and then give the writer responsible for that travesty more work, but they cancel a fantastic title like Sean McKeever's "Sentinel."
This handy digest collects the first half of that too-soon cancelled series. Juston Seyfert is a teenager with teenage problems -- an absent mother, school bullies, a girl he has a crush on who just likes him "as a friend." Things turn around when he finds a Sentinel in ... Read More
- Boy meets robot...
- Why did Marvel cancel this book?
