The Adventures of Kung Fu Robot: How to Make a Peanut Butter, Jelly, and Kung Fu Sandwich

by Jason Bays

Overview

The engaging pursuit for the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich can't be contained on the page—it leaps onto your mobile screen with the FREE interactive Kung Fu Robot companion app for an innovative reading experience. Based on the best-selling app, this madcap graphic novel follows the adventures of a nine-foot tall red robot who loves kung fu and his 9-year old sidekick, Marvin, as they rush to rescue the city from the clutches of their evil arch-nemesis, Kung Pow Chicken, and his army of android ninjas from destroying the city’s peanut butter and jelly supply. Kung Fu Robot must save the day . . . and their lunches!
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449483647
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	99 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jason Bays is a man who cannot remember a time when art wasn’t what he was about. His aspirations were tutored by a drifter who took the time to show him how to draw in the back booth of his granny’s diner on Main Street in Amsterdam, Missouri. Rocketships and trains were good enough to get him his first gig drawing dinosaurs for his second grade play. Later he collected degrees in Illustration and Design at the Kansas City Art Institute, leading to a successful career in advertising while also giving rise to his desire to make reading more accessible for his kids.

Kid Rocket Studios is a Kansas City-based kid's entertainment company that develops, publishes, and markets branded children's entertainment properties for traditional, digital, and emerging media distribution channels. With a mission of "launching imaginations," the studio has developed a number of digital experiences. Their narrative, interactive comic, Kung Fu Robot, is their most far-reaching and popular.

Editorial Reviews

03/13/2017
This madcap series opener plants itself squarely in the realm of surrealist inanity, echoing the over-the-top goofiness of Ren and Stimpy and SpongeBob SquarePants. Kung Fu Robot knows two things: how to fight and how to make amazing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The former skill comes in handy with the latter—his sandwich-making features dramatic moves, abundant splatters, and many shouts of “hiiieeeeyaah!” When the villainous Kung Pao Chicken’s army of ninjas steals all of the peanut butter and jelly in the city, Kung Fu Robot and his nervous human sidekick, Marvin, have no choice but to open up a jar of delicious righteousness. Newcomer Bays captures their endeavor in overlapping trapezoidal panels, tons of all-caps sound effects, and a bold and chunky cartooning style with a heroic primary color scheme. The frenetic action isn’t always easy to track, however, and although the artwork is polished, Kung Fu Robot’s martial arts moves (and all-around obliviousness) start to get repetitive before long. An app, which can be used in tandem with the book, is also available. Ages 7–12. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

With an animated feel and its breakneck velocity, Bays' creation is an interesting marriage of print and digital comics and creates a multidimensional feel for young action aficionados.” (Kirkus Reviews)

From the Publisher

2017-01-17
In this action-packed graphic offering, a nervous young boy and his fearless robot companion fight to save everyone's favorite sandwich fixings from a nefarious fowl. Marvin, a fretful, white 9-year-old, is always anxious about the antics of his best friend, Kung Fu Robot, a 9-foot-tall crimson automaton with good intentions that usually end in comic disaster. Kung Fu Robot is intent on making the perfect peanut butter, jelly, and kung fu sandwich, but dangers—such as chunky peanut butter, beeping ninjas, and an evil chicken—lurk around every corner. Through a series of madcap chases, karate chops, and giggleworthy adventures, the pair seeks to save the beloved sandwich items, all while not making Marvin's mom angry. Boisterous action propels the story's characters, and silliness reigns supreme. Bays' art takes on an appealingly novel-feeling, retro-tinged style, utilizing a muted palette of primary colors and distinctively grouped, irregularly shaped panels. The exploits of Marvin and Kung Fu Robot burst from their panels in a dizzying array of sound effects and motion. An accompanying app is available for download, promising to offer sound effects when the book's pages are scanned. With an animated feel and its breakneck velocity, Bays' creation is an interesting marriage of print and digital comics and creates a multidimensional feel for young action aficionados. A zanily cluttered exploration of format and style that transcends its pages into the digital world. (Graphic fantasy. 6-11)

Kirkus Reviews