Cornucopia of Robo Stuff
For the first time in a while, I’ve actually got something to tell you about. Isn’t that exciting?!?
First of all, you can now read Atomic Robo on your iPhone. Last year’s Free Comic Book Day story comes free with the app, and you can expect to see our first volume in ‘09.
Please note that the iPhone is a ridiculous piece of wholly unnecessary technology that is wildly overpriced and vastly overhyped . . .until the moment I get one. Then it will become really, incredibly cool.
Just FYI on that.
In other Atomic Robo news, The Vol.2 TPB, Atomic Robo & The Dogs of War, is now available for pre-order. The order code be DEC084219 Judging by how things have gone in the past, I would suggest running to your LCS or logging into Heavy Ink right now and placing your order.
Seriously.
I’ll wait. . .
For those of you who were unhappy with the direction we took Vol.2 in, you’ve only got one more month of brooding. I would like to thank you for your patience and loyalty, and I would also like to say, there’s more bad news on the way for you -suckas. It seems a lot of people have mentally reduced Vol.1 to 3 pages of Carl Sagan, and a really bad joke about Stephen Hawking being a bastard. That was a few pages, of a single issue. There was a lot more in there -you might want to go back and reread them. I’m sorry that our romp through WWII, a conflict that killed 20+ million people, wasn’t wall-to-wall laughs. We sure enjoyed it though. We’ll do “Hitler on Ice” next time. I promise.
To further aggravate you, we are going even further back in time with Vol.3, Atomic Robo & The Shadow From Beyond Time. We’ll be riding the Way-Back Machine to 1926, when Robo was just a wee, er, robot. We do move forward through time though, so by the last issue the apparently much missed Action Scientists will be back in the action. So far I have been laughing my ass off. Because we are back in the realm of pure fiction, the retardo-meter has been cranked back up to eleven.
I could talk to you about Atomic Robo: The Movie, but I’m gonna wait to see if we’re told to get fucked or not before I start going into detail about that.
Finally, Mr. Mike, who is half of the team responsible for those awesome Atomic Robo t-shirts (including this all new design), is taking part in a really cool gallery show this Friday. If any of you are in the Boston area I totally recommend checking it out.
826 Boston Partners Young Writers with Area Artists at Robert Klein
A unique creative collaboration and art auction to benefit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring programs for city youth.
Friday, December 12, 2008 6 to 8 PM @ the Robert Klein Gallery 38 Newbury Street Boston.
826 Boston is helping hundreds of Boston’s children and teenagers with their creative and expository writing skills though highly imaginative, free programming offered in city schools and at 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring center in Roxbury’s Egleston Square.
In the spirit of recognizing and nurturing some of Boston’s youngest writers, over 50 artists from Boston and beyond are lending their creative vision to the cause by responding directly to the literary work of youth involved in 826 Boston’s free writing programs. The resulting letter-pressed broadside prints produced by Ropea-Dope Collaborative will be auctioned off at this event. In addition 25 visual works by leading artists including Kiki Smith, Jane Marsching, David Macaulay, Michael Mazur, and Steve Locke will be auctioned off during a silent auction in order to benefit 826 Boston’s free writing and tutoring programs.
826 Boston is the seventh chapter of a national non-profit organization founded by award-winning author Dave Eggers and educator Ninive Calegari in San Francisco in 2002. All 826 chapters are dedicated to instructing and inspiring young writers from disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826 Boston offers one-on-one tutoring, field trips, workshops, in-schools instruction, support for English language learners, and professionally published anthologies of student work. All of these programs are free, imaginative, and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.
RANDOM SPLENDOR
. . .seriously? Personally, I think Barak’s situation is more similar to Emperor Tyberius’. But that’s just me.
I’ve been saving this one, because it’s both hilarious and slightly offensive. But I thought that in light of the recent Prop 8 bullshit out West, I’d post it.
You simply cannot leave the protection of minorities to the popular vote of the majority. If we did that, blacks would still be drinking out of seperate water fountains, and women probably wouldn’t have the vote.
Dude,
Thanks for the plug. Can’t wait for all the cool new robo stuff.
Hooray for going further back in time! I guess I’m in the minority of liking Vol. 2 better than Vol. 1 then? I mean, sure, there were no giant ants, but I suppose giant ants don’t apply to everything.
Anyway, eagerly anticipating Vol. 3.
Those few people who are “disappointed” with the direction of Vol 2 would be complaining had it been exactly like the first volume anyway. But instead of saying “It’s not the same!” as they are now, they’d say “It’s exactly the same!”
All we can do is show Robo’s life. Parts of it are funnier than others. The end.
a cranked retardo-meter sounds like the bees knees….and what’s everybody complaining about? If anybody can make genocide fun, it’s Team Robo!
Hey Scott:
I enjoyed Vol. 1 more than Vol. 2. Not b/c I don’t have any respect for the almost imcomprehensible sacrifces our heroic veterans made so that we can enjoy things like freedom and comic books, but I’d just rather watch a cool looking robot beat up on giant ants and walking pyrmaids as opposed to Nazis.
Maybe Vol. 2 hits too close to home for some people seeing how we’re fighting 2 wars currently in the real world. Movies about the war and terrorism aren’t doing that well. If we weren’t at war, more people may have embraced Vol. 2. I guess those of us who prefer our comics with more fantasy/escapism are free to feel that way as you are free to draw the books that tickle your fancy.
I DO disagree with the person who commented several posts back that there is a lot of filler in Vol. 2. Pages of soldiers kicking ass or getting their asses kicked does not
constitute “filler” to me. If anything, your technical ability as an artist continues to grow by leaps and bounds. The copositions are more innovative, greater variety of expressions, more challenging poses, etc. So there you go. My two cents for what it’s worth (even less in this economy…)
Good luck with the potential movie. That would be all kinds of awesome!!!
I MUST SING!!! (Not that I’ve ever seen The Producers, but all you have to do it hear the chorus once. It’s quite catchy.)
Germany was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where, Oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me.
And now it’s..
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Winter for Poland and France
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Come on, Germans, go into your dance
I was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Goosestep’s the new step today
bombs falling from the skies again
Deutschland is on the rise again
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Uboats are sailing once more
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Means that soon we’ll be going
We’ve got to be going
You know we’ll be going to WAR!
Hey Scott… I honestly don’t really complain too much about issue 2. The way I see it is, I love reading Robo, I love the artwork, and I have been a fan of Clevinger’s writing for a long time.
Its good, not just good… its mind numbingly good… I love it.
Anyway, the program in Boston sounds AWESOME. I wish I was good enough to even attempt at helping with artwork… hell even to support the program or be a part of it! Sounds one one hell of a deal, and is exactly the type of thing I like to see. Professionals helping out the little guys.
I can’t wait to see what Vol 3 will turn out like. Im not too concerned about “Oh look.. all the laughs in WW2″ I read Robo cause I love to learn more about Robos’ life…
Maybe a part of me loves seeing him get his arse handed to him too… specially cause he has such a good sense of humor about it too.
Anyway, Im going to read no matter what…
Also, I pledge to get a sketch from you every time I see you in person… of course, unless its on the street, however unlikely that might be.
Anyway, can’t wait to see where you guys bring Robo in the next volume.
Always a fan,
-Nick
ugh, and by issue 2… I mean volume… duh
Yeys, I’ve got a new t-shirt I gotta swipe off you.
Anyways, lemme leave you guys with this piece of lulz: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h317/axl99/ATOMIC-ROBObra2.jpg
Out of everything we’ve seen Robo wearing- G.I. uniform, Nazi uniform, parka, swim trunks- I think argyle socks take the cake.
Scott, your art just keeps improving and every new issue of Robo is my favorite.
Oh my god the socks. HAHAHAAHA.
I think I hate you now, Jesse. No, wait, it’s Scott I hate for drawing that. Your colors give that picture the only touch of class it has ever known.
dude, KoD http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19127
I would have thought Scott would have saved something like that to tell us himself but…
That is seriously damn cool.
Do we already know what Previews KoD will be in? January’s I suppose, if it comes out in March. What a stupid, archaic system.