Atomic Robo #6

Brian!

Added some more reviews of Atomic Robo #1.

Just approved Jeff’s final letters today. Ronda got delayed in starting the colors (get well soon, Ronda!) but she’s on track for finishing by our deadline for submittal to Diamond.

How do you like that? Six out of six issues complete before the second one ever hits the shelves. Team Robo does not believe in delivering a late product. It’s a shame Marvel and DC don’t work like this.

Honestly, that’s being unfair. It’s suicide to produce serialized content the way we did for Atomic Robo. Scott and I finished the first issue in October of 2006 and did one issue a month until March of 2007. But since Red 5 hadn’t planned to go print until the Fall, that gave us a tremendous buffer…and a financial nightmare. Marvel pays for an issue in October, they put it out in December or January. You’re only waiting a couple months for the turnaround there. With Atomic Robo we’ve been waiting a year.

Ouch. Just, seriously. It’s been a long year.

We want a buffer with the second volume too. But it’s a safe bet that we’ll aim for less than a full year between starting issue 1 and releasing issue 1.

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