Atomic Robo Vol 1 through 4 — GET ‘EM!

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 01:32 Written by Brian! Tuesday, 1 December 2009 01:32

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It’s December. Or, as we like to call it, Robo-ember. Robember. Ro…

It’s December! And that means the trade paperback of our third series, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time will go on sale in just couple weeks! As if that’s not enough to blow your gaskets, our first volume, Atomic Robo and the Fightin’ Scientists of Tesladyne, will be available for the first time in a long damn time thanks to a prodigious second printing! So, go get ‘em! And pick up Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War if you haven’t.

Now, while you’re loading up on previous years’ Robo comics, go nuts and pre-order the first issue our next volume, Atomic Robo and the Revenge of the Vampire Dimension! It hits stands in February of 2010, the year The Future officially starts. I hope we’re all still living on the Earth’s surface then or our stories will seem terribly antiquated!

Volume 4 will be our shortest series to date at only four issues. Each issue is a one-shot and together they chronicle what may be the busiest week of Atomic Robo’s life. And, as we’ve been promising since May, one of the issues contains the rest of this story. I really think you guys will get a kick out of this series. It’s got Dr. Dinosaur, the Vampire Dimension, an all new nemesis (Robo’s oldest nemesis), and the debut of…

No, they are not teenagers with attitudes, they’re the Eastern Hemisphere’s answer to Action Scientists.

I just cannot wait for you guys to see what we have in store for you. I’ve learned to judge how well received a series will be based on how much Scott bitches about what he has to draw. He’s only 1/4th of the way through the second issue and he’s already stopped talking to me on the advice of his cardiologist. We usually don’t reach that stage until half way through the fifth issue. We must really be on to something here!

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  • Mike... "Like maybe a giant head in a jar?..."

    I vote for a giant head in a jar.

    Oh, and as soon as TP#1 and TP#3 are out, I'm shipping them off to Holland along with TP#2. I have a friend whose 7-year-old's approach to disproving the existence of the Tooth Fairy was to boobytrap his tooth.
  • "Revenge of the Vampire Dimension"? Really?
  • This is one reason.

    Another is safety. Y'know how every car explodes in the movies? Well, imagine they're mushroom clouds.
  • Mike
    So, on BoingBoing.net today, they posted up a YouTube video of a Disney cartoon from 1958 talking about the "highway of the future", and all the technological advances that were coming our way. It got me wondering how Robo feels about the promise of technology vs. the reality of it? He seems kinda like a guy who would be annoyed that he doesn't have a flying car or jetpack yet, but then he's also got that more pragmatic scientist side. Obviously, a scientist is a scientist because they have a talent and love for discovery, and always want to know more (no matter what the field), but how does one reconcile that with the promises for a better future that never actually materializes?

    Sorry...it's the end of a long day, and I've just finished the last of the work I have to get done, so I'm trying to look busy. But I was actually kinda curious what you guys think about this.
  • Mike
  • A lot of that had to do with an overly optimistic appraisal of the role atomic technologies would play in day-to-day life.

    I don't think Robo would be especially disappointed by the those promises/guesses not being met so much as he would be and is disappointed in our continued reliance on a non-renewable resource which has done immense harm to the world both environmentally and politically.
  • Mike
    So...if Robo is truly "atomic", then the implication is that Tesla was able, in 1923 mind you, to harness the atom in ways that we still have yet to do here at the end of 2009. He's at least created a power source that is portable, renewable (or at least replaceable), and safe enough that it can interact with the outside world in relative safety. Unless Robo's still on his first power core, then he must know how the technology works, which means he could replicate (and over time, even improve) how it works and give cheap power to the world. If he's so concerned about the use of non-renewable resources, why wouldn't he do that? (I should stop now...)
  • Josh_B
    Do you have any idea how that name was thought up in the first place?

    Anywho, I'm already super excited!
  • Yes. It was intended as the title of the issue. I used it in the solicitation text where Red 5 must have mistook it for the series title. I usually use the series title in the solicit as opposed to issue titles. So, very simple miscommunication.
  • Mike
    So, if they're the "Eastern Hemisphere's answer to Action Scientists", does that mean that they have a Robo-like character to rally around like the real Action Scientists do? Like maybe a giant head in a jar?

    Oh, and are you SURE we can't ever have giant robots? Even piloted ones?
  • There's so much packed into the Science Team Super Go issue that 1) it's got six extra pages which only barely contain everything in it, and 2) I can't say anything about any of it.
  • John the second
    So, I guess you guys haven't resolved the name issue, so you're just running with it?
  • Running with it. Diamond can barely do its job under the best of circumstances, trying to change a title in the middle of things would be beyond disastrous. It's a cool sounding title, so ultimately, not a big deal. I'm sure a few people will whine about the lack of Vampires the other three issues, which is understandable given the title, but they'll get over it.
  • Mike
    You could just solicit them all individually as 1-shots. It sounds like, beyond the common time-frame of all happening within the same week, they don't have too much of a common narrative, right? If you did them as 1-shots, then that's four #1 issues that you can use to draw somebody in, and then when it's time for the trade, you can name it whatever you really wanted.

    Sure, it's a bit of a "cheap ploy" to abuse the #1 like that, but let's face it; it's a cheap ploy that works.
  • I think we already submitted for at least one other issue, so too late!
  • John
    100% Hotness. February is looking better and better!
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