David Pepose is a go-to writer for me in the comics space. This new title is more youth-oriented/all ages than I am used to from him, but Pepose pulls it off well. A writer with range and a nicely done book with art that pairs well.

This graphic novel is action packed. Remember things like Voltron, where humans would ride in these amazing robots for warrior duties to protect the planet. Mechs are back however it’s not a human riding in the mech, it’s a dog. It’s a special dog and a special human. In this book, we go through them bonding, having some issues, and finding each other again. Because Biotitans have come to earth. These are gigantic creatures or monsters that only the Titan Terrier can destroy. This was an interesting graphic novel. It’s a tad repetitive. It seems like every time one biotitan is destroyed, another one comes alive or comes out of hiding. It’s an interesting read. It’s one that I’m sure young adventure seekers are going to love. If they’ve really been into Superman‘s dog in the latest movie, they should definitely pick up this graphic novel.

It's that time again, when rampant mega-mecha robot things start attacking Earth. A survivor of one such attack, Sam, finds a puppy, Holly, in the wreckage. Years later he's tasked with jump-starting a captured mecha suit, because the attacks are only getting more frequent (and because the military keep making poor decisions, but that's for further on in – and let's face it, the military seems to be one man). But what do you know, if it isn't little Holly who can activate and drive the thing and save the day! Now all that needs to be done is for someone to actually start Holly on behaviour training…

This was clunky, and kind of undid the cuteness of the slightly original idea. Much effort is put into the mechas, but they're clearly concepts Godzilla fans would struggle to believe in, and the art doesn't really do many of them much favours. Here is talk of ultra-satellites(??!!), alien things made of entropy, and dimensional swords or some such – and yet we're supposed to be under-tens watching things use napalm and so on to slug it out. So basically the fantasy doesn't work, the level of grit cannot be balanced to the readership – and clearly can go too mature – and the whole thing hangs on a proper terrestrial dog managing to fight using a mahoosive bipedal suit controlled by a flimsy HUD design and no other controls. Hmmm...