Gum In My HAIR! (& Other Atomic Robo Stuff)

(HA! I have 57minutes and 23 seconds left in Monday, SUCKAS! Stop emailing me to tell me the I Hate Blogs blog is late!)

I was enjoying a normal day of below-average productivity and constant distraction last week when the Widget came home with a wad of gum stuck in her hair. Clearly we have watched Willy Wonka too damn many times, (Violet B. likes to store her used chewing gum behind her ear).

I’ll spare you the gory details but the basic idea was that she did this late in the morning, and it was late in the evening when we found out. (Her long hair kept Grandpa from noticing anything and when he asked why she kept touching her head she claimed she had a bug bite.)

Its hard to describe the process of removing a hard, dry, wad of gum from the base of a young girl’s skull. Not only is a big ol’ chunk of her long hair stuck in it, but so too now are about a million little peach fuzz hairs from her neck.

It was very unpleasant. If you’ve ever seen a horse being gelded you have some idea what the experience was like. Then you have to take into account that both Dorinda and I are two of the worst Cowboys you will ever see. So there was LOTS of screaming (like animal howling), kicking, and crying, as we applied baby oil and a “feminine” razor to the affected area. After about twenty minutes Dorinda had all the big clumps of hair removed and had shaved/oiled away about half the gum. At that point we couldn’t take it anymore and gave it the old Band-Aid treatment -just ripped the fucker off.

A few dermal layers later everything was okay, and luckily for the Widget her hair covers the giant gaping bald spot nicely.

Yeesh!

Before I talk about me (or something directly related to me) I’d like to show you guys this great article on a fantastic English artists named Chris Ward. If you’ve ever visited my Links section you may have noticed him there. Chris is a great guy and he’s colored quite a few of my pieces –he really turns my rather boring black & whites into something amazing. You should really check him out.

Okay back to me and my stuff!

Did I mention that I have a little book called ATOMIC ROBO? From Red5 Comics? And that it will be out in October and you should use the magic Diamond Distributor code to order it?

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Robo popped up in several places this week. You can spot him on Comic World News, as well as in Silver Bullet Comic Books, and again at Silver Bullet Comic Books by a different author, (I really like the SBC reviews!).

So far the reviews have been quite favorable. Here’s a few lines from the original interviews posted last week:

“It made me wonder what else might be out there and what other crazy adventures Atomic Robo could get into.”

“This is slam-bam jet fueled afterburner fun from the get-go.”

“Considering how well the first issue turned out, it looks like the rest of these will be worth waiting for expectantly.”

Hey look International Fans. You can purchase Atomic Robo right here!

There’s also a really nice piece about Red5 Comics in general at ComicPants.com.

Random Splendor:

Mega-Robot Returns. (Takes a little while to load, but its worth it.)

Holly Cow! Dr. Tran is BACK! And Again! And again? And . . .make it stop.

Nic Klein seems pathologically driven to send me silly shit these days.

I love him for it.

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, worse than a punch in the ‘taint.

Watch out you Arab fucks! Ira Levi’s gonna kick you ASS!

Since being poisoned, shot, and burned to death Adolf’s writing has mellowed considerably.

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I would like to note that my wife did not get this joke. Because she is an idiot-savant I am never sure when she’s being serious about this stuff or if she’s just looking to take the mickey out of me. Just in case anyone else reading this is a complete ignoramous, Hitler wrote a book while in prison that outlined his plans for Germany and the Jews quite clearly. If anyone at all living in Germany at that time had bothered to read it the rest of the world could have be spared a whole lot of bother. That book was called Mein Kampf (My Struggle).