Comic review: Bravest Warriors #28

When we last saw our Warriors, they were beginning to battle some giant monsters on the planet Vira. Their new friend (and super awesome engineer), Peach, built them each their own battle robot. In this issue, we rejoin our Warriors to see if they will be victorious!

Peach tells each of the Warriors to push a red button above them. Of course, this joins the robots together to form one Voltron-ish giant robot. Since their movements still power their ships, Peach reminds them that they have to concentrate and work as a team.

Beth, obviously, concentrates on kicking butt. Her robot shoots claws into the monster’s face. The monster retaliates by throwing a rock but Wallow throws up a shield in the nick of time. So the monster tries biting them instead. Peach reminds them that they need to focus. Now the Warriors are fighting as one.

After punches are thrown and laser beams are shot, the monster flips the mega-robot onto the ground. Chris’s robot, who happens to the the butt of the mega-robot, shoots its bee stinger at the monster. This gives Chris enough time to use the wings on his Bee robot to take the battle away from the city.

Unfortunately, they end up in the ocean. Since the monster is a giant octopus, it easily slides beneath the surface, giving him the ability to hide from the Warriors.

Suddenly, the monster attacks again. This time, the head of the robot is damaged and Plum falls into the water. Peach, determined to save Plum, dives into the water after her. Meanwhile, the Warriors throw everything they have at the monster. Peach rescues Plum, who has turned into a mermaid, and everyone celebrates their win back on dry land.

Chris tries to talk Peach into joining the Warriors but she turns them down. After all, she is an engineer, not a hero. Instead, she promises to upgrade their robots and join them on a mission when they return. Plum slips her phone number to Peach and the Warriors head back home.

There is only one side story in this issue. It is titled “Lunch.” The Warriors are sitting down to eat lunch but Chris can’t figure out what he wants. When the Emotion Lord shows up, Chris decides that the only ones who can decide what he wants for lunch are other Chrises. So they pick up Robo-Chris and start to brainstorm. Chris suggests a club sandwich or leftover pizza but the Emotion Lord says both mayo and leftover pizza are considered nuclear weapons in the future. Robo-Chris suggests broken glass. Since they can’t eat glass, the Emotion Lord suggests borscht and prunes. But Chris only eats borscht for dinner and prunes are for breakfast. When Chris suggests a hot dog, the other two flip their lids thinking he means an actual dog. Since the other two aren’t being helpful at all, Chris sends them away. He lays on the floor, planning to starve to death.

Amazingly, he did lay on the floor all day. Now that it’s dinnertime, Wallow made spaghetti for everyone so Chris wouldn’t have to decide what to eat. It turns out that was exactly what Chris wanted.

While the battle in the main story was pretty awesome, it was a little difficult to see what was going on in the panels. I think the artists tried to cram as many cool moves into the issue as they could, resulting in smaller panels that made it difficult to see if it was the monster or the Warriors attacking and which power was being used. This could have easily been resolved if they began the fight in the last issue and continued it here. Every action cartoon knows you go to commercial in the middle of the fight so the viewers will return. The same theory works for comics as well. Leave the smaller panels for close-up dialog and give us larger panels for fight scenes.

I think this is the first time that I enjoyed the side comic way more than the main story. Everyone, at some point in their lives, has had that “what do I want to eat” feeling. Only, in this scenario, Chris actually has other versions of himself that he can ask. If only all of us could be so lucky. Then again, that would mean having a murderous robo-version of ourselves…maybe that isn’t so good after all.

In the next issue of Braves Warriors, it’s Birthday Party Time. I really hope that the writers aren’t going to rush through this story like they did the Vida one. It’s OK to have plots last more than a couple of issues. I know that the animated episodes are around 6 minutes in length. Comics don’t have the same restraints. Give us a little more in each story. Trust me, we’ll like it a lot better!