Heroman is a story with kid who finds an abandoned robot toy from a commercial he wanted and befriends after it gains the ability to come to life and big enough to fight. Together they combat aliens and corruption to protect their friendship and lives of people. Video is a fan created mashing of the Heroman anime and the Disney movie The Iron Giant. Character roles fit and the voice overs match the animation.

Volume one and two of the Stan Lee manga Heroman are on Amazon for pre-ordering. It would be great if the manga and novel publisher Vertical would finish Heroman with all of the volumes. Vertical is still in operation and by no means do they have a reputation of canceling great manga after so many volumes, but Heroman is something that I would enjoy and that is not a good sign like the canceled manga bellow.

Alive: The Final Evolution – Del Rey
Aventura – Del Rey
Beyond the Beyond – Tokyopop
DNAngel – Tokyopop
Gamerz Heaven – ADV Manga
Kino’s Journey (novel) – Tokyopop
Momo Tama – Tokyopop
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok – ADV Manga
Peacemaker Kurogane – ADV Manga
Peace Maker – Tokyopop
Qwan – Tokyopop
Rise R to the Second Power – ADV Manga
The First King Adventure – ADV Manga

Lagoon Engine Einsatz’s mangaka has not continued the story after the first volume and Flat never had its first volume distributed by Tokyopop, so those are left out. A lot from the list are favorites or at the very least manga that enjoyed much because of the mangaka. Heroman show no signs of having poor sales and has the big named American comic creator Stan Lee behind it, but don’t think for a moment that it is invulnerable. What I have learned is to show appreciation and to be vocal about what you love. Not doing so will could mean being bitter or broken.

Heroman is a show even more patriotic than Fox News. If the red, white and blue wasn’t a dead giveaway, the alien bad guys always have red energy floating around their every being. This is a clear message that Heroman is in fact an ally of justice and aliens are communist pigs trying to destroy capitalism and the spirit of freedom, as displayed by the master-and-slave relationship between robot and outcast boy. Heroman stops the spread of their ethnocentric socialist beliefs across the heart of America (the west coast) and the free worlds of Earth (all five of them).

The actual show is about some boy whose robot toy gets struck by a magical lightning from one of the alien’s weapon of mass destruction. And like straight out of the textbook of superhero 101 turns into a nigh-indestructible robot bigger than Yao Ming and his commie friends.

I guess the main reason I like it so much is my friends and I decided to play a drinking game where we take shots every time an American Flag pops up on screen. Five minutes into the first episode, my friend was nearly wasted and I was puking in the closet. Let’s hope this successful first episode spawns many more to follow.

I don’t really know if there is a story to this show… but when you have America at every corner, who really needs one? Did I mention Stan Lee came up with the original concept? That crazy kook is up to something again!