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We rolled into the house from NYC late last night. Late enough that all I wanted to do was drag myself up the freezing cold stairs of my drafty old house and crawl under the half dozen quilts and sleeping bags we have heaped on the bed just to survive these cold New England nights.

But instead we opened presents. Continue reading

…Atomic Robo would make a great movie.

Our foray into Hollywood has been a frustrating one, but it is early in the career of Robo as an intellectual property. It took Marvel thirty-five years to put together a Spidey movie that was worth watching. I guess it’s okay if it takes us more than one. Still, I look forward to speaking with the studio that figures out we made a summer action movie franchise goldmine for them in the shape of a comic book series. Continue reading

The release of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time along with the re-print of Atomic Robo and the Fightin’ Scientists of Tesladyne have been plagued by some kind of curse. It may have been from when I ran over that gypsy stereotype’s kid with my car and she brushed my cheek and said in a rasp like the sigh of a tombstone, “Delaaay.”

What you should take from that is the following: both volumes will come out Wednesday. But your specific store may not get one or both. If this happens, do not panic. Your order has not been lost, you have not been cheated, everything is super kosher. It just means you won’t get your Robo book(s) until the next time Diamond ships to your store, Jan 6th, 2010. If you placed your order online, uh, I dunno! Assume Jan 6th as the release date if you don’t get a shipping confirmation e-mail by Dec 28th.

These delays have nothing to do with Team Robo or Red 5 Comics, by the way. The comics printer and the comics distributor are to blame. And that gypsy stereotype.

I guess a case could be made that I shouldn’t have run over her kid. But in my defense, I was running a red light and that’s something you just have to do all the way once you make the commitment.