His love for Vic is fundamental, and the latter’s devotion to his Dad acts at once as the band holding the narrative together, and its greatest source of resistance. Giovanni, the originator of his beloved son, serves to depict this most bitingly, having been “at peace until the day his chest began to hurt,” succumbing to the destabilizing effects of loneliness. Ultimately, their interactions with each other and the world around them make for some of the most comical ever penned.īy Klune’s design, emotions act as physical manifestations of powers beyond the grasp of both Man and the machine created in his likeness. Rambo, a tiny, innocent, and pure vacuum cleaner, carries the spirit of youth, while Nurse Ratched’s cheeky and slightly sociopathic disposition accentuates moments of binding affection. It balloons when we’re introduced to Rambo and Nurse Ratched, two robots that are devoid of hearts but prove more endearing than most of nature’s creations. It’s no wonder that from the first page, we’re filled with a sense of tenderness. This attention to the smallest detail is evident in something as marginal as their surroundings, “There were old music boxes that sang little songs that ached.” Klune’s style is endlessly captivating, conveying the ethereality of the fairytale setting which he quickly strips of any naïveté. And as their world is quickly imperiled by robots bent on extinguishing the human race, more than hearts and memory are at stake. One day, with his creations Rambo and Nurse Ratched by his side, he brings back to life Hap, an android that proves lethal in every sense.
In the Lives of Puppets is an ostensible retelling of Pinocchio, one in which Victor is a twenty-one-year-old human surrounded by machines.
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