“You three stay out here until we know it’s safe.”  “What if it’s not?”  “Then I’ll make it safe.”  – Page 3.

The Ghost of Station X series comes to an end and wow is it big.  I need to be spoiler free though, so how to tell you all about this last issue without telling you all about it?

Atomic Robo meets the big bad who has been pulling the strings all series long, and its a doozy.  He is pitted against an enemy that is at once strange and familiar, advanced yet old, evil yet charming, and most dangerous of all: very very smart.  Its a classic centuries old story told with robots.  Paradise Lost with technology.  The bad guy has his reasons for every action and even though it would have meant the destruction of the human race his logic is sound.  Misguided, evil, but it is very easy to see how he came to his decisions.  That frightening level of intelligence that sees moves so far in the future it must change the past in order to come out on top.  Its like sitting down to play chess against an opponent and discovering the game actually started two weeks ago.

This evil is so smart, so large, that I actually thought this was the end of Robo.  I imagined the ultimate self sacrifice and a fitting tribute.  He is a hero.  This is what heroes do.  They enter battles knowing it may be their last, but doing it anyways.  While the villains are always stronger, faster, smarter the fact is they need to be that all the time while in conflict.  The hero needs only find that one lucky break.  The one oversight, the one flaw, in order to win.

I wont tell you if Robo survives, I wont tell you much about this spectacular final issue.  I will say that by the time you finish this comic you will believe that a robot can feel, can question, can have a crisis, and can work through all of that to be a hero.