Publisher: Dynamite Comics
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Blacky Shepherd
Editor: Joe Rybrandt
Release Date: 23 December 2015
Price: $3.99

Based on a 1984 cartoon series, Voltron is this giant robot Defender of the Universe who brought peace to the galaxy in the dim distant past, so the first thing they did was to disable him and throw him out with the rest of the garbage. What were they thinking?

Now that another horrible menace (their words, not mine) threatens intergalactic peace once more they have to send a second choice team of young heroes led by a guy called Keith (never a good sign when your heroic tem captain is named after the David Cassidy character in The Partridge Family and even looks a bit like him) to reactivate Voltron so that he can save their bacon once more. Maybe this time they’ll be more grateful.

Each of our five young heroes pilots a tank shaped like a lion and, when joined together, they form Voltron, the only being powerful enough to stop the evil Haggar and his monstrous beasties from destroying the world. Transformers by any other name this is simplistic sci-fi for Saturday morning rugrats.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker