Dogs of War #4, you are buying it.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 05:43 Written by Brian! Wednesday, 19 November 2008 09:51

I probably should have given you more advanced warning, but Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #4 hits the streets today. Buy it so that you may better know how to love it.

Volume 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time, is shaping up quite nicely. I’m about 2/3 done with the third issue’s script and we’ve got the basic ideas for the fourth and fifth issues down. This one’s kind of a mix between Vol 1 and Vol 2. We hop around in the twentieth century like in Vol 1, but everything is more directly connected like Vol 2.

Issue titles thus far…

3.1: The Doom That Came To Robo
3.2: The Horror at Houston Street
3.3: What the Sputnik Brings
3.4: ?????
3.5: ?????

So, you might be asking yourself, “Brian, why are you diving so hardcore into Lovecrafty stories?”

Quite simply, because it let’s us do things like that. I mean, really, c’mon!

Oh, and one last thing! Check out the new comments system I installed. I don’t think you have to do anything fancy or different to make it work, so you guys should be good to go. But let me know what you think so long as it’s not merely “Change? We fear change.”

[edit] I don’t know about you, but I quite enjoy how the new comment system works.

The Future

Last Updated on Monday, 10 November 2008 04:38 Written by Brian! Wednesday, 5 November 2008 01:50

Yes we did.

Obama’s victory actually throws me for a loop, Robo-wise. There’s not much I can say on the topic because it’d involve huge spoilers that would melt your brain, but let’s just say I’d given up on the political landscape, and in general the future, of this country prior to his campaign. Which, I know, makes me look like a total sap who is easily manipulated by a charismatic figure, but shut up, the guy’s got solid ideas and he’s not a shithead with them. Anyway. Now I have to re-think a subplot. One advantage is that we haven’t laid much (if any) groundwork for this one, so it’s mostly a matter of thinking of what would be cool to do instead.

In the meantime!

Here’s super early sketches for Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1 that I totally shouldn’t release yet but they make me too giddy to keep secret any longer.

You will earn some serious Robo Points if you can guess who those people are. There is a minor hint over in the timeline.

Scott sent over about three pages filled with concept art for Vol 3 and that’s the least spoilery image I can show you out of the whole batch. Which is a damn shame, ’cause some of this stuff? Oh, man. Oh, man. I feel sorry that you folks have to wait so long to see what we’ve got in store for you. Then again, you’ve got the two best issues of Vol 2 to look forward to, so I think you’ll get by.