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I wanna hit you suckers up with some more concept art from She-Devils, but first thing’s first.

It looks like the final issue of Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X will hit comic shop shelves, iOS / Android devices, PCs, and Macs everywhere on February 1st. That’s next Wednesday.

So, y’know, get it.

All right, on with the show. We’ll be looking at some of the iconic gear that let’s the She-Devils do what it is they do! Continue reading

The conclusion of Volume 6 may be delayed, but that just gives us more prep time for Volume 7, Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific.

She-Devils was supposed to be Volume 2. And then 3. Also 4 through 6. We kept finding reasons to push it back, but the truth was simply that we weren’t yet good enough to pull it off. Even the broadest stroke high concept elevator pitch version of the story was enough to peel back the thin veneer of confidence we’d built up to reveal the ugly self-hating quivering mass of our impostor syndrome.

Which means that, yes, a multi-generational time travel story that eschews traveling through time was a less intimidating story to us than She-Devils. It’s not that it’s a complex story. I don’t think anyone could accuse us of those with a straight face. But what happens in it is hard as hell to pull off on a craft level. Moreover, I think Scott and I sensed that this had the potential to be one of those stories, a synthesis of everything that is an Atomic Robo tale. Hopefully we’re nearly good enough now that we won’t screw that up.

What follows is the result of Scott’s research and concept art thus far.

Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X #5 should have been released in the first week of January 2012. But it will not go on sale until February. Our hope is that it will be in the first week of February, but it’s still too early to tell.

And it’s all our fault!

The short version!

October screwed us. Scott works about 6 days a week on this stupid comic book, minimum, but October wrecked that. A combination of conventions, travel, random family stuff, and the day-to-day bullshit of, well, day-to-day bullshit killed most of his working days that month.

Even this would not have been a problem, so guarded is Team Robo vis a vis scheduling and buffers and such, except as a result every single page of Issue 5 was then pushed into that dreaded November – December corridor.

I mean, I guess we could’ve had Scott slack on that last issue. Just scribble anything to get it through the pipeline. But could we? Really? Just as we promised not to deliver a late issue, we also promised to never deliver less than our best issue.

Caught between those mutually exclusive goals we chose to give you our very best a little later. Really, there wasn’t much of a choice. Being late with an issue is a temporary embarrassment, but having a shitty one clog up the trade is something that never goes away.

We hope to have your understanding and that this hasn’t strained your patience too much.

In the meantime, we don’t intend to make a habit of this. The treacherous nature of October is unlikely to change in the short term. We already adjusted our 2012 schedule to account for it.