The Man From Marathon

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 10:18 Written by Scott Wegna Tuesday, 17 August 2010 10:17

There was no chainsaw wielding gorilla. There were no zombie hordes. There wasn’t even an ice cream truck turning the corner as I dug for the sweaty dollar bill in my pocket.

And yet three days a week, since we moved to Staten Island, I’ve been stepping into my fancy sneakers and weird Nike shorts with the underwear built in, and I’ve been running.

I gotta say; running kinda sucks balls. You have to be a first class, Type-A control freak to get any pleasure out of this sport. And who the hell designs those too-short-shorts that have the split up the side that goes to your armpit, neon green sneakers, “Second skin” running pants, and those horrible little hats that bike riders also seem to enjoy? I’m hardly Mr. Fashion, but isn’t it bad enough that you’re sweating like a pig, drooling and spitting, snot coming out your face, and sometimes even shitting* yourself? You have to dress badly also??

My shrinking waistline is okay though.  And there is a sort of primal enjoyment in running I guess. The ability to sweat through our skin and run down large prey animals is a very big part of what helped those prehistoric monkeys become the dominant species on the planet, and I often think about that while I’m gasping for air and listening to me feet pound the gravel. And these weird/awesome shoes that look like gorilla feet are pretty cool too. (Talk about bad fashion sense!)

Other than getting out of the house for a few hours each morning I’m pretty much locked away in the studio working on Atomic Robo 5.2 and the recently announced Avenger: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

And that’s all I’ve got time for.

New Atomic Robo comics online!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 11:12 Written by Brian! Wednesday, 11 August 2010 11:12

Did you know there’s free Atomic Robo stories right here on your very own internet? It’s true!

First up there’s MXII which has actually been online for quite a while.

Then we’ve got The Getaway which is a quasi-sequel to Vol 1.2 (the giant ants).

Next is Rescue Mission which is something of a sequel to MXII and prequel to The Survivor (Jenkins’s “origin” from Vol 1) and ties into Vol 5 a little bit.

Remember those reports of The Lizard Man? Well, how about The Flight of the Terror Birds?

Here, Have Some Art!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:21 Written by Scott Wegna Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:27

I have no idea if we’ve posted the latest Robo art to the blog or not. So just to cover our bases, here’s the cover to the Volume 4 TPB and the first two issues of Volume 5!