This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio's Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run in comic book single issues.
Twenty years ago, the most famous and lifelike robot in the world was engulfed in scandal, arrested, and deactivated. Since then, an anti-robot movement has developed even as body modification and black market prosthetics are all the rage. When gossip blogger Sergio Bauntin investigates the elusive robot celebrity CTZ-RX-1, he provokes the city's shady power players who don't want the story to get out.