*received for free from netgalley for honest review* This was a super cute and funny comic! thought the art style was really cute and i would read more of this series

'Roger and his Humans' by Cyprien with art by Paka is a collections of cartoons about a slacker, his girl, and an escaped military robot that has to fight it's destructive tendencies.

Hugo gets an odd present for his birthday: a robot named Roger. The robot has been stolen from the lab by Hugo's father, and Roger has to adjust to living with Hugo and his girlfriend.

It's a good premise, but it's just not very funny. It's also a bit mean in humor. The lettering in my review copy was pretty muddy. I hope that's improved in the final comic.

Hmmm... From the cover I expected a horrendously ugly comic story about a robot and, well, some humans. What I found was a giant collection of one-yuck, three-panel comic strips, demanding the quick and easy visual style that has to forego pleasantness for economy. Our lead finds a robot in a box in his flat on his birthday, and immediately assumes it's a gift – even if nobody seems at all worried about the idea of giving him anything or not. It has something to do with his father's job, we soon discover, but in the meantime the robot has to witness the Internet, ponder nudity, learn our body language, fail to smile, and have no ability to lie. And you know what? As snide as a lot of this is, this actually manages to be rather varied and quite the successful collection. Yes, its acerbic, acid sense of comedy is a bit one-note, and the visual approach never really equates with the adult content, but I didn't mind my time with this. I literally went from doubting the sanity of downloading it, to having a few titters (and more when the cat gets involved in the housework!) – and it's so much nicer when it's that way round! A real shame some of the lettering (especially the 'M') is really lame. Minor quibbles aside, it has to be reported that this is now three books old in France, with a much longer narrative that germinated on these pages. The development of the storytelling here was more welcome than the three-panel quips, so it would be a welcome couple of hours to see them all when translated.

It's a bout a couple that suddenly got a robot in their home and began to treat him as part of the family. I think the writer aimed it to be funny but most of the jokes were missed, sometime even bad because it kinda sexist and has male gaze. The plot didn't too great either, it's basically just the interactions between Roger, the robot, and its humans. The font in this comic could use some change too, because the letter "m" looks like "n" and it took a fair amount of concentration to read them correctly. But honestly Roger is such a fascinating object, and it's fun reading about him

Told is three panel arcs, this book tells the story of how Hugo and Flo came to have Roger live with them, and what chaos that brings. This was definitely supposed to be a comedy style comic, but it fell flat for me. It hit a lot of the same tropes that constantly appear (man doesn't do anything but play video games, masturbate, and is considered stupid, woman works hard to do her job but doesn't receive support, robot is programmed to hate humans...) and it just fell flat all the time. There were parts that I did find amusing, but I was hoping for more. The artwork is okay, minus the strange way eyes are drawn, and it is colorful which makes it nice to look at. This is more along the lines of a newspaper comic rather than a full graphic novel.

Roger and His Humans (1 star)

I was expecting this to just be a cute, wholesome, silly story about a robot and how he navigates human life. It started out like that and was going great, I loved the art style, the over-exaggerated facial expressions and the fast pace. But then the Nazi jokes came, the anti-Semitic Jew comments, the ableist jokes and the fatphobia.

It was unnecessary and added nothing to the story. if it didn't have that, I would've given this a 5 stars but the "subtle" undertones of anti-semitism, fatphobia and ableism were just disgusting. Also, the humour is very cut and dry which just isn't my thing either.

Definitely would not recommend this to anyone and absolutely will not be purchasing this for myself or others.

TWs/CWs - Mentions of bombing; Cannabis use; Shrooms (drug) use; Mentions of Nazi's and use of Nazi salute; Murder (mentions); Masturbation (mentions); Anti-Semitism; Misogyny; Cussing; Kidnapping; Blackmail; Non-consensual drugging; Ableism; Fatphobia

3.25/5
••e-ARC provided by NetGalley and Europe Comics in exchange for an honest review••

Even though the individual strips are mostly independent but follow a storyline underneath, still some of them felt unfinished. Adding to that, a good part of the strips felt boring or underwhelming. These made it hard to read a lot in one sitting. My favorites are the ones including Roger's interactions with the family cat.
After some point, Roger's interactions at home with Florence and Hugo felt repetitive and a little boring so I would prefer to see Roger interacting with the outside world and other people more.
In the end, it was an okay and somewhat fun read plus the art style is cute and I would like to give the second volume a chance (especially since based on the little blurb at the end it seems more up my alley).

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆-𝒂𝒓𝒄.
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The premise is interesting, I give this gn that, however, it wasn't delivered that well which became of the reason why I didn't enjoy this.

Other than that, the storytelling fell flat as well, adding the formatting that I had difficulties following.

As much as I wanted to enjoy the characters, I just think that they barely had a presence at all and didn't caught my attention

**ARC provided by NetGalley for honest review**

Roger and his Humans (Script by Cyprien & art by Paka) is a comic style story about an unmotivated young man who suddenly finds a robot in his house and thinks it a birthday gift. This robot, named Roger, is quite capable and does all kinds of things for him and his girlfriend, though he doesn't always know how to behave properly.

This was a decent comedy comic strip-type story although there is a fair bit of crude content, so I would recommend this mainly for an adult audience. Some jokes weren't to my taste, but the art was fine, and it did have a funny story at its heart. It didn't "wow" me, but I had no big problems with it.

Roger the robot has come to live with Hugo and Florence. Though he's not too fond of humans, he's great at housework, and only mildly threatening. (Not to mention his tendency to put drugs in food . . .)

There's only one problem - Roger belongs to the military, and they'd kind of like to have him back.

This was a fun read. I like how each strip works as both a three-panel toon, and part of a continuing story. The art has a cute, manga feel to it, but this is definitely not one for the kiddos.

Honestly, I always wanted to read this comic book because, when I was younger, I loved watching Cyprien's videos. But in the end, I was quite disappointed.
We follow Hugo and Florence who, one day, find a robot in the middle of their living room. Except that this robot was designed for military use by the army, which will do everything in its power to try and get it back. At first, I thought it was going to be a story about all the squares but in the end, it's a bit like Garfield: a line of three squares is a funny little story (except for the last part). Except that personally, I didn't find them particularly funny. And I didn't like Hugo at all, so that doesn't help.
I don't particularly recommend
2.5/5

I love Roger, in spite of him being a weapon of (possible) mass destruction.

His humans were alright... weelllll, the male character was a real loser-type. I don't know how that chickadee can stay with him.

What drove me loco was the fonts as it felt like the M was misprinted as N so that was frustrating.

If Roger existed, I'd like one, minus the weaponry though, he seems so nifty to have around and that sass is so fun.

An absolute delight from start to finish. Somehow the illustration was so endearing to the point where "Did you know I have a nuclear power source that can detonate at will?" came out as adorable. I truly love Roger the robot.

Another comic review coming atchoo. I’ve come across a few fun ones lately, and of course, tore right through them. Hugo is in his 30s, and he has a girlfriend, but isn’t great at the whole friends thing. He spends his days moping around his home, and when a robot shows up, Hugo thinks it’s a birthday present. Little does he know it’s actually a weapon designed to destroy humanity, but Roger the robot has quickly become Hugo’s best friend, and so Hugo hides it while growing their friendship.

This was super cute. It moved quickly, and the antics of the army to try and get Roger back were funny. Hugo’s bond with Roger was really cute, and the lack of emotional communication between Roger and Hugo makes for some quite humorous situations. It reads to me like a collection of newspaper comic strips, short little anecdotes that make up a larger story. It’s out on April 19th if you’re looking for something lighthearted and cute to read.

I unfortunately didn’t care for this one,it seemed interesting enough but couldn’t hold my attention. I feel like this would’ve worked better as a WEBTOON comic rather than a one shot!

Half of Roger and his Humans reads like comicstrips with recurring themes.

Near the end there is a story with Roger meeting making new friends, the military planning to take roger back and a villain trying to turn roger evil.

The illustration of the little robot looks great, textual and storywise the graphic novel was fine, there were a few genuinely funny scenes, sadly I found some panels to be unnecessarily misogynistic and/or body shaming.

[...]
{Hugo: WHAT?! YOU REALLY THINK YOU WEAR THE PANTS AROUND HERE?!
Florence: I SHUR DO!}
{Hugo: ROGER! WHO GIVES THE ORDERS IN THIS HOUSEHOLD?!}
{Cat: MEOW!
Hugo: HUH?
*Roger points at the cat
Florence: I KNEW IT.}
[...]

Thank you to Europe Comics and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Roger and his Humans by Cyprien & Paka is a sci-fi graphic novel that reminded me of the charm and humor of TheOdd1sOut on YouTube. The story revolves around a robot and the world around him. One day, Hugo gets a robot in his house on his birthday. Hijinks ensue as the robot gets used to living with Hugo and vice versa. Will the pair become unlikely friends?

Overall, Roger and his Humans had an interesting premise, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. The artwork, while cute and functional, began to wear on me after a while. In addition, I was turned off by the cannabis references in the beginning of the book. I am an adult reader and I don't feel offended by drug references, but I didn't feel that the gag was that funny. If you're intrigued by the description, you can check out this book, which is available now.

(I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.)

This comic introduces us to Roger, a endearing, but at the same time highly destructive robot, that shows up randomly in the house of a couple of young people. Hugo and Florence live together and have a chaotic but mostly regular life. They grow fond of the robot and start connecting with him as they show him how their world works.

This book... wasn't for me. I get that the robot is cute and that the relationship between the two humans is supposed to be disfunctional and (dare I say... comical), but I just didn't vibe with it. I found some parts of the book funny, while other were kind of annoying and low-key sexist. I also think the pacing was all over the place and I didn't feel like the structure was well thought out: it's clear that the "comic strips" follow a chronological order, but I thought it was weird that some of them were really connected, while others simply were not. Maybe I'm too picky, but I just did not love this book. I'm sure someone will, though!

PS: I just read a review saying that this could work much better as a webtoon, not reading the whole comic in one go, and I absolutely agree! I think I would have been able to enjoy it more if I read it little by little :)

I received this comic/GN from Netgalley/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

I was curious about this one, even read a small excerpt online at Webtoons, and then pressed the read now. In this silly, strange, comic we learn of a robot named Roger. And his humans. We see the humans try to make sense of Roger and Roger make sense of them and the world around him. And we see that the humans (Flo/Hugo) well... they need help. XD Which leads to some hilarious things, some murderous threats (and some other dark stuff), and well, the realisation that the internet is a dangerous (and interesting) place. I just had a laugh, because while Roger at times is very emotionless.. he can also be quite scary when the moment is right (like when is called kid, or when people tease him). I had a laugh at the time that he went to school (though poor other Roger).
Plus, there was also some part about the dad/science stuff.. I don't know, while it did bring some change to the story I also feel like it could have done without or maybe just be part of a different book.
And while I did enjoy the comedy parts plenty.. at times it was also bit too much and some jokes just didn't work for me. I think this would have worked better if you read bit by bit, like a webtoon, instead of all of it in one go. It was just too much Roger for me.