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It’s 2009 and this year will be bursting with Atomic Robo.

Bursting, I say!

The fifth and final issue of our second volume is on sale now.

For you filthy trade-waiters, you can pre-order the trade paperback of Volume 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War from comic shops and online stores all over planet Earth. It collects all five issues, all five mini-comics, and the 16-page Robo story from last year’s Free Comic Book Day.

Beyond that we’ve got Volume 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time coming up for pre-order in…uh…weeks? Months? Not 100% on that one. It’s soon though, I promise you that! And, yes, we’re doing another story for Free Comic Book Day this year. Look for that at your local retailers in May.

There’s a lot I want to say about Volume 3, but none of it makes sense without context. So, for now, I’ll just say it’s another five part series. Scott’s finished the first issue and I’m currently writing the fourth wherein we bring back our favorite guest star from Volume 1. We’re taking things in yet another direction with this volume. Oh, don’t worry, all the sci-fi adventure comedy of Atomic Robo is there. We just take it down a new path this time. Hell, you’ll see!

Looking way beyond the horizon here, we originally intended for Volume 4 to be Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific. Kind of our ode to the ridiculous scientific excesses of the post-WW2 military industrial complex of the ’50s. With Communism on the rise and the three-way aerial collision between prop planes, jets, and atomics, it was a crazy time…and there were air pirates.

But then Scott hit me with this great idea for a modern story that’d push the She-Devils back to Volume 5. The only problem? I can’t think of a good pulpy title for it! Ah well. Either way, we should have a fourth volume for you guys later this year as well. Depending on how the timing works out, and how many issues the fourth volume has, 2009 may actually see two full Atomic Robo mini-series. Historic!

Having your comic book come out on Christmas Eve is like trying to make sure no one goes out and buys it. So, y’know, go out and buy it! Especially you Jews out there, support one of your own!

I’m not sure why our Christmas cards are unnecessarily morbid. It may have to do with Christmas’s pagan sources, notably the Norse tradition of celebrating that the unbearable winter was half over, so those who had survived so far had a decent chance of making it to the end.

Now that is a party.

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.