Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 6 - Grin And Bear It!

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 6 - Grin And Bear It!

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 68

DATELINE
10 June 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1 and The Best Of 2000AD Monthly 49.

SYNOPSIS
Suddenly Walter is alone in the lab.

FIRSTS & LASTS
First six part Walter The Wobot strip.

INFORMATION
Luna City has a Central Park.

WALTER THE WOBOT
He witnesses two suicides in as many seconds.

OTHER CHARACTERS
DOC FRANKENHEIM
His laboratory is on the fifty-third floor of a building.

DEATHS
Two? Frankenheim dies from a 53 storey fall and possibly so does Ygor.

BEST LINES
Walter: "Poor Doc! Walter better wetweat."

WORST LINES
Ygor: "Whimper"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says cawwying, cwikey, cwy, wemarkable, wetweat, while Ygor says mashter,

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Unknown.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Steve Potter

REVIEW
A teddy bear suicide and possible subsequent embrace from a child. I did not see that coming. The problem with this story is that Walter is mostly extraneous to the plot and Walter The Wobot works best when he is oddest thing in it.

The Vewy, Vewy End!

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 5

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 5

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 67

DATELINE
3 June 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd and Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1.

SYNOPSIS
The experiment was a partial success.

FIRSTS & LASTS
None.

INFORMATION
A successful mind switch experiment can bring life to an inanimate object.

WALTER THE WOBOT
The experiment had no effect on him.

OTHER CHARACTERS
DOC FRANKENHEIM
His experiment is successful, up to a point.

YGOR
His mind is transferred to his teddy bear.

DEATHS
None.

BEST LINES
Walter: "Er, sowwy, Doc Fwankenheim. Im still Walter!"

WORST LINES
Fwankenheim (to Ygor): "You can stop crying for a start - or else you'll get soggy!"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says bwighten, Fwankenheim, fwesh, gwief and sowwy, while Ygor says ish, mashter, ridiculous and thish.

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Unknown.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Steve Potter

REVIEW
Crikey. This is bizarre.

Next Pwog: Grin And Bear It!

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 4

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 4

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 67

DATELINE
3 June 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd and Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1.

SYNOPSIS
The experiment begins.

FIRSTS & LASTS
None.

INFORMATION
A mind switch experiment requires a pair of custom-built-designed transferer helmets.

WALTER THE WOBOT
The experiment goes ahead.

OTHER CHARACTERS
DOC FRANKENHEIM
He convinces Ygor to take part in the experiment.

YGOR
Frankenheim convinces him to take part in the experiment. He drops his teddy bear into the custom-built-designed transferer helmet.

DEATHS
None.

BEST LINES
Walter: "Sob. Goodbye cwuel world!"

WORST LINES
Walter: "You dastardly wat! No need to be so wuff!"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says bwain, cweep, cwuel, wat, wuff, while Ygor says shcorn, shilly, shubject, shwap

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Unknown.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Steve Potter

REVIEW
This part leaves this story treading water.

Continued On Back Page!

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 3

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 3

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 61

DATELINE
22 Apr 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd and Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1.

SYNOPSIS
Walter interrupts the experiment.

FIRSTS & LASTS
None.

INFORMATION
Robo-Dentists treat afflictions like cog-ache.

WALTER THE WOBOT
He can adjust his systems to negate magnetic attraction. He falls onto the end of the bed bearing the corpse and catapults it out of the lab.

OTHER CHARACTERS
DOCTOR FRANKENHEIM
After losing the corpse, he intends to conduct the mind switch using Walter instead.

YGOR
His consciousness was to be moved to the corpse.

DEATHS
None.

BEST LINES
Frankenheim: "You metal fool! My beautiful corpse - catapulted into oblivion!"

WORST LINES
Ygor: "Waah! It'sh shpoiled my chance of a new body. I'll shtrangle it!"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says and/or thinks attwaction, awound and cwipes, while Ygor says eshcapes, it'sh, mashter, shpoiled, shtrangle and yesh.

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Unknown.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Pete Knight

REVIEW
This is much more fun and the catapulting is brilliant.

Next Pwog: The Switch!

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 2 - Sinister Surgeon

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 2 - Sinister Surgeon

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 60

DATELINE
17 Apr 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1 and The Best Of 2000AD Monthly 49.

SYNOPSIS
Walter is delivered to Frankenheim.

FIRSTS & LASTS
None.

INFORMATION
In theory, mind switch experiments are possible.

WALTER THE WOBOT
He is magnetic. Ygor delivers him to Doc Frankenheim.

OTHER CHARACTERS
DOC FRANKENHEIM
He is a scientist, who plans to conduct a mind switch experiment.

YGOR
He delivers Walter to Doc Frankenheim.

DEATHS
None.

BEST LINES
Frankenheim (to Ygor): "You moron, Ygor. All you are to me is a work horse!"

WORST LINES
Frankenheim: "I suppose tinhead might be useful later on, but now......on with the darkest scientific experiment of them all...mind switch!"

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says cweeps, cwikey, gweat and gwavewobbing, while Ygor says exshperiments, mashter, promished, shervent, shurprise,

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
None.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Pete Knight

REVIEW
Walter's clinking escape attempt is great, but other than that there isn't much here.

Next Prog: The Switch

Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 1

NAME
Walter The Wobot: The Frankenheim Monster, Part 1

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. Prog 59

DATELINE
8 Apr 78

PAGE COUNT
1

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Definitive Ed. Metal Fatigue, Judge Death Classic Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd Chronicles Book 1 and The Best Of 2000AD Monthly 49.

SYNOPSIS
Walter gets abducted by a bodysnatcher.

FIRSTS & LASTS
First

INFORMATION
Lunar City has a morgue.

The 3 Widdle Pigs is a children's book.

Robots are reputed to be unbeatable at chess.

WALTER THE WOBOT
He plays chess with Dredd and lets him win. He encounters Igor struggling with a heavy load outside the Lunar Morgue and helps him carry it. When it is revealed to be a corpse, Igor abducts Walter.

OTHER CHARACTERS
JUDGE DREDD
He plays chess with Walter and wins every time. Porridge is his favourite breakfast meal.

YGOR
He steals a body form the Lunar Morgue and kidnaps Walter when he attempts to help.

DEATHS
None.

BEST LINES
Dredd: "Checkmate. I win again, Walter. I thought robots were unbeatable at chess."

WORST LINES
Walter: "Weading you a bedtime stowy, Judge Dwedd!"
Dredd: "How kind. Now why don't you do something useful - like disappear."

CATCHPHRASES
Walter says bweakfast, bwighten, cwaft, cwipes, Dwedd, pawallel, powwidge, pwecision, pwoblem, stowy, thwee, twouble, weading and welease, but manages a Dredd along the way.

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
This strip is set during Walter's time on Lunar 1 and so before the accompanying Judge Dredd: Return To Mega-City.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Igor or Ygor is a traditional characterisation of a hunch-backed henchman to a villain. The image of this character comes from the combination of the hunchbacked lab assistant in Frankenstein (1931), a character called Fritz and a mad blacksmith with a twisted spine called Ygor from the sequels Son Of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942). The characterisation was parodied in Young Frankenstein (1974) with Marty Feldman's hunchbacked assistant who pronounced his name "Eye-gor".

MISTAKES
Widdle?

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: Joe Collins
Artist: Brian Bolland
Letters: Tony Jacob

REVIEW
Walter's adventures take an interesting twist here. Dredd is depicted in quite an enigmatic way and the panel of Walter shown from above is very nice indeed.

Next Prog: Sinister Surgeon

Judge Dredd: Bring Me The Head Of Judge Dredd

NAME
Judge Dredd: Bring Me The Head Of Judge Dredd

FIRST PUBLISHED
2000 A.D. and Starlord Prog 88

DATELINE
28 Oct 78

PAGE COUNT
6

REPRINTS
Judge Dredd Epics: Judge Caligula 1, Judge Dredd Epics: The Complete Judge Caligula, The Complete Judge Dredd 8, Judge Dredd 9, Judge Dredd Epics: The Day The Law Died and Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files 02. The story also formed part of the Judge Dredd radio adaptation of The Day The Law Died.

SYNOPSIS
As the Judges search for Dredd, he searches for a robot replacement to prove his innocence.

FIRSTS & LASTS
The first revelation that the other Dredd is a robot.

INFORMATION
Justice Central keeps incredibly detailed files on Judges.

Moderna Robots have a facility in Mega-City One, they build robots and have a largely robot workforce.

JUDGE DREDD
He is still missing and the resulting manhunt is the biggest in Mega-City history. He seeks out Max Normal for help and on his suggestion Dredd investigates Moderna Robots. He fights and destroys the Dredd robot, but uses its head to prove his innocence.

OTHER CHARACTERS
CHIEF JUDGE GOODMAN
Dredd's arrest has hit him hard.

DEPUTY CHIEF JUDGE CAL
He has designs on the job of Chief Judge.

MAX NORMAL
He informs Dredd of Chick Parker at Moderna Robots and suggests he may have built a robot Dredd.

CHICK PARKER
An engineer at Moderna Robots with gambling debts which he managed to pay off last week. He designed the Dredd robot. Parker was murdered in his office at work.

THE DREDD ROBOT
It is with information on Dredd from his file at Justice Central. It fights Dredd at Moderna Robots, but the Judge destroys it with an industrial scrap magnet and furnace. Only the head it retrieved.

ARRESTS
None.

DEATHS
Two. Chick Parker has been shot dead. Dredd destroys the Dredd robot with an industrial scrap magnet and furnace.

BEST LINES
An honest criminal: "Mega-City won't be safe for an honest criminal till they find Judge Dredd!"

WORST LINES
Dredd: "Gotta go for him!"

Yep.

CATCHPHRASES
"My Dok!"

CONTINUITY & CROSSOVERS
None.

INFLUENCES & REFERENCES
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia was a 1974 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.

MISTAKES
None.

RETROSPECT
None.

NOTES
None.

CREDITS
Script: John Howard
Artist: McCarthy/Ewins
Letters: T. Frame

REVIEW
It's great to see Dredd back on form and both the art and the script are fantastic here.

Next Prog: The Day The Law Died!