News Round-Up
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Our letterer, Jeff “Man Candy” Powell, posted some preview pages of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1. You should pre-order it. It comes out April 15th, an otherwise innocuous date that doesn’t consume your every thought around this time of year. Issues #2 and #3 are also available for pre-order, so get those while you’re at it!
The most popular request since before the first issue of the first volume came out was for posters. Well, we’ve got one. It looks like this:
It’ll be available for purchase online shortly. Personally, I don’t see how you can live without it. Hell, I’m already doubting your existence and it hasn’t even come out yet.
Let’s see, what else is brewing?
Scott finished his latest Marvel work. If the fact that Scott was doing some work for Marvel is news to you, let me elaborate: he had some work to do for Marvel, and now he’s done and he can get crackin’ on Atomic Robo Vol 3 Issue 3. It’s probably one of my favorite Robo scripts so far because it’s the first time I’ve written anything remotely close to horror. Of course, I get bored if a character isn’t screwing up and Robo has his own slapstick/Vaudeville tendencies, so it’s less Stephen King and more The Three Stooges Meet The Wolfman. But there’s definitely some weird moments in there. I think you’ll dig it.
While Scott’s scrawling out some crude figures using nothing but a pen and his feet, I’ll be finishing up the final issue of Vol 3 immediately followed by hammering out some back up stories. I’ve written exactly one out of five, so yeah, that needs doing but fast. Looking beyond that, I’d say it’s entirely possible we’ll have Vol 4 out later this year. Mind you, I say this without consulting Scott or Red 5 or anybody, so take it with a few grains of salt. But if we maintain our schedule, which we are historically pretty aces at doing, the first issue of Volume 4, Atomic Robo’s Two-Fisted Science Tales, could be released between mid-Sept and mid-Nov. Again, that’s just speculation. Who knows what the hell will happen!
