Mystery Science Theater 3000 by Joel Hodgson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Mystery Science Theater meets comic books as Kinga Forrester has a new plan and this one involves sending our long-suffering heroes into public domain comics to produce a comic to take over the world.

So our heroes are injected into the storylines of old comics with Tom Servo becoming a Teen Reporter, Jonah becoming the sidekick for a scantily-clad 1950s Superheroine, and Crow becoming a crypt-keeper like storyteller in some old light horror comics, while Kinga works her way into the stories to insert ads to sell Totino's Pizza Rolls (in a nod to old comic book ads), and the rest of the bots hop around doing the riffing.

This is a genuinely funny book with some great lines, as well as some new inserted dialogue making fun of the weird creative choices many of these 1950s comics make. The art is also generally quite good with fairly good likenesses of the TV characters and I think the insertion of Noah and the Robots into the comics is done fairly smoothly.

If I did have a complaint, it was that sometimes the book could be a little bit confusing with not only the inserted characters and inserted dialogue but also some robots riffing. It could be a little difficult to keep track of what dialogue from where, which seems to add a bit of unwanted confusion.

Still, there's more than enough funny to make up for it and this is a great read if you love Mystery Science Theater 3000.



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