Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: March 26, 2014
Crazy van-painter and designer Chuck Carducci might be dead at the hands of his creation but that creation - bearing his younger likeness - is on a mission, of sorts. Visiting Carducci's ex-wife, Crystal, the man-droid begins to lose power. He soon, though, finds that some of her old perfume contains the compound trioxidyne themide which is what he needs.
But Vandroid heads instead, at Crystal's suggestion, to the local mall where he locates a perfume counter and begins guzzling the stuff. Mall security shows up in shocking numbers, only to get quite literally destroyed by Vandroid who's gone into self-preservation mode. As he's trying to escape he encounters an old buddy of Chuck's, Keener, who helps him escape. He also learns what “trust†and “friendship†might mean in this new reality as Keener helps him out, no questions asked and risks his own well-being to do so.