City in Peril!

Quite clever, and quite funny. Great characterization of robots with soul, and the art is reminiscent of 1950s war and space comics. Curtis quotes Clint Eastwood, tells terrible jokes, and has a great sense of pride about his work and his relationships with people and other robots, as well as his duty to Robot City and the world. Robots and humans work together, play together, party together, and maybe even romance together - there's a throwaway panel that depicts a human female describing a ro-boxer (a robot boxer, that is) as a “hunky hunk of metal.” Also, love love love the scenes of the giant squid swimming through the ocean, tentacles flailing ominously above the waves.