Who doesn’t love a robot dog? Rush from the Mega Man games, K9 from Doctor Who, GIR from Invader Zim. Robot dogs are just metal friends.
But what this comic posits is, what if robot dogs were EVIL?
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen these dog Sentinels. They’ve been tested in Alex Paknadel and Justin Mason’s Sentinels and unleashed on the X-Men during the “Raid on Graymalkin” event that just wrapped. They’re cannon fodder — soulless-presenting automatons our heroes can tear through like they’re in some forgotten stage of the 1992 X-Men multiplayer arcade game, with Warden Ellis at the end shouting, “Welcome to die!”
One wonders what’s to stop Larry Trask’s Sentinel program from working its way through the animal kingdom: Sentinel cats, Sentinels birds, Sentinel monkeys, etc.
Although I have to imagine Sentinel cats wouldn’t really give you the results you want. They’d probably just scratch their handlers across the face and knock things off high shelves.
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(W) Gail Simone (A) Andrei Bressan (CA) David Marquez
HUNTED BY THE PACK, PART ONE!
The Outliers, still finding their place in the mutant world, are hunted by a lethal new set of foes: A bloodthirsty, relentless and unstoppable pack of stealth Sentinels! Cut off from their mentors and allies, with no knowledge of who built or aimed these deadly drones, four untrained mutants are on the run and completely unprepared for the violent hunters making them their prey!
RATED T+
In Shops: Jan 22, 2025
SRP: $4.99
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