This collects issues 22-26 and a lot happens in this one. BUT it's spaced out between multiple characters, so the main plot sort of just drags. The robots do finally rise up! Dr. Quon is murdered by Tim-22! Driller is taken prisoner! It definitively feels like we are in the middle of the story and that this volume is basically setting up a major showdown that will happen in the next one but oh well.

This is a necessary installment, it just suffers from trying to tell multiple story arcs at the same time.

As always, Dustin Nguyen's watercolor illustrations are minimalistic and wonderful. ( )

Really digging this series and its cast of characters. Not sure why I'm rooting for the robots, maybe there's something about me that I don't know. And maybe that's why I have an aversion to magnets, and water. ( )

4,6 stars

Oh my fucking god why is volume six not in my hands yet!!

The art work has been gorgeous throughout the series, but plot wise I think this was my favorite. ( )

More good progression and tightening up of the plotlines and tension into the final confrontation. ( )

There's things that still niggle at me in this series. I hate Driller. And the good Tim is still a touch too Pinocchio for me.

But overall, this series gets better and better as it draws to its conclusion. ( )