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The emotion in the face, the shaking of the hands as Alex reaches out and simply can’t decide, is so scared… such powerful storytelling… He made it work with a power that took my breath away. The ramifications of what Alex is thinking, what he’s going through, are left to percolate for a while, until they come out here in a few beautifully realised pages.įirst there’s the setup of dad taking the two boys to the shop, giving them an innocent treat, and then Cameron delivers two pages of such intensity and heartbreak as Alex weighs up what he wants, those questions that were in the back of his mind coming out in heartbreaking fashion.Ĭameron gave me something that was really incredibly powerful and instantly worked, a brilliantly accessible and understandable way for readers to think about sexuality and confusion. It all has its roots, as so many childhood problems do, with a bit of schoolyard teasing, the school bully accusing Alex of being a girl, not wanting to play with the other boys, preferring the company of his two best friends, Taia and Mira.Īnd all of that sat in Alex’s head, making him ask questions. And it was simply perfect – and here, in the collection, it’s STILL simply perfect. When it was originally published in the Phoenix Comic, this little strip was entitled ‘Mega Robo Definition ‘.

Well no, that’s not the way it works for many of our kids, not at all.

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And in doing so he’s made us care deeply about them.īut Cameron’s never made us care more about them than a series of pages in the middle of this book, when dad takes the boys shopping. He’s managed to make these two robot boys real for us. That contrast between having these two robo-brothers developed by the military and adopted by a (sort of) normal family, between military development and family upbringing creates something fun and interesting and so well realised by Cameron.Īt the heart of Mega Robo Bros is the notion that Alex and Freddy, the two Mega Robo Bros, have the chance to be every bit the children that we know, every bit the children that we have (if we’re grown ups), every bit the children we are (if we’re young people reading this).Īnd with all the adventures, all that excitement, and all the comedy moments we see throughout these two books, Cameron’s managed to make us care so much about these two boys.