Colouring Book Theatre: Shogun Warriors

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‘Shogun Warriors: Dragun"
I have to admit, I was excited when I found scans of this book over at (sponsor) Sherryloutoys website.

Mostly because it was free but also because Marvel's "Shogun Warriors" comic usually took my 35 cents if there wasn't a new issue of "Star Wars" or "Micronauts" on the rack.

I was always a fan of that book even into adulthood, so I'm assuming that Whitman probably aped Marvel and produced a fun book. Sounds like a safe bet right?

Nooooope.

More after the jump.

OK, so much of the beginning is focused on this little girl (referred to in this tome as "little girl") and her dog as they are being chased by invading bat creatures from the Planet Uglon.


How does our sentient robotic hero find about it you ask?

At the newsstand where he's likely checking his lotto numbers and getting his "TV bingo" cards like any good octogenarian.

Plus aren't the Shogun Warriors giants? Seriously, I'm asking here.



So Dragun goes around saving children and going from being gigantic to man sized from page to page. Seriously, those bat creatures were picking up cars a few pages back, now they're tiny compared to him.



This goes on for many, many pages, eventually this leads to a confrontation with the king of Uglon and Dragun takes on the planets defenses....

..and he destroys the planet, wiping the entire Uglon race off from existence...


So this robot, has the weaponry to wipe out an entire race and everybody is cool with him just roaming around doing whatever he wants? Seriously, he can destroy a planet with his wrist rockets. No senate hearings? No tribunals? Just a creepy peck on the cheek and "good job" for committing genocide?

I am not alright with that Whitman Publishing!







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[Iron Mego]

I downloaded this a couple weeks ago. Need to print it up and color with my daughter.

[Bruce Banner]

Awesome.
Loved Whitman publications. Such great memories of their stuff.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, Whitman usually did a better job than that. The artwork looks similar to some other Whitman books I have, but more simplified.
The cover is even lame, which is odd. They usually lured you in with an awesome cover.
I think they phoned this one in, for sure.

[cjefferys]

Wow, just wow. The pages with Dragun reading a newspaper and being kissed by a girl and dog (and he's smiling!) are probably the most bizarre illustrations involving Japanese robots that I've ever seen.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Usually a day has passed before you read about something in the paper. You would think a giant robot would at least listen to talk radio