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First of all, thank you to everyone who came out to the barren wasteland of the Javits Center to visit us at this year’s New York Comic Con. You guys were amazing last year and you out did yourselves this time around.

Scott and I are still recovering from Post-Javits Shock, so in lieu of actual content, I shall leave you with the following.

Devin “Featherweight” Harrigan, who should be known to all Robo fans as The Goddamn King of Robo Fans (see also: this and then this), drew up some, uh, I’m going to assume it’s fan art.

Behold!

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As some of you might recall, Atomic Robo‘s editor/sounding board/Fifth Beatle Lee Black and I wrote some comic books for Marvel what was called The Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet.

My thinking at the time was thus.

1. It was very unlikely we would ever work for Marvel Comics in the first place.
2. It was much more unlikely we would get to work for Marvel Comics again.
3. Therefore, we may as well write something to justify that.

So, The Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet.

My strategy was nothing short of brute forcing as much weird stuff as we could through the script. Y’know, just shotgunning so many lines and visuals that ought to get toned down or removed that the only way for the editor to deal with them in light of his ten thousand other responsibilities would be to give the vast majority of them a free pass.

We didn’t do this purely for subversion. Though I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t a part of it. But principally Lee and I are strong believers in the idea that All Ages Comics are not For Big Dumb Babies Comics. And this was our chance to, well, paraphrasing Barney from The Simpsons, “take All Ages Comics to strange new places.”

Of course, it helped that our editor was something of a loose cannon. I suspect Nate noticed everything we tried to slip under the radar. Probably saw it from a mile out. But it tweaked his own subversive tendencies and he let us get away with it under a thin cover of plausible deniability.

Or he was trying to get himself fired.

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I got a call from DC Comics earlier this year. They wanted me to helm a new on-going Firestorm series in the wake of his increased visibility in Blackest Night and Brightest Day.

As luck would have it, I’d just finished writing Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X a week or so previous, so I could do this without the slightest worry of impeding our progress on Robo. So, hey. Why not, right?

My editors and I went back and forth on a six issue arc. The following represents the final document that got me the “OKAY” to begin scripting. I completed the first issue and outlined the second before the reboot derailed what we were doing. Alas.
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