sergebroom | "Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War"

"Leg stealin' fascist jerks!"

Most of my recent fiction-reading has been rather blah so it was with some trepidation that I began Scott Wegener & Brian Clevinger's Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War. I had been extremely disappointed by The Five Fists of Science, a story about Nikola Tesla & Mark Twain fighting JP Morgan, Edison, Marconi and other worshippers of lovecraftian horror in the year 1900. So, when I heard about Atomic Robo, a creation of Tesla, that went on to fight Nazi monstrosities and legged tanks, I thought this might turn out to be a neat concept undermined by a flawed execution. I need not have worried. I enjoyed it immensely. How could it be otherwise, with lines like the above, and this?

"So you're building a big dumb bomb to show everyone who the greatest scientist blah, blah, blah."
"No, that would be the pathetic work of an egomaniac. My bomb will kill everyone in the world. I was robbed of my place in History, so Humanity will be robbed of its Future."
"I am really going to enjoy stopping you."

This, by the way, is the 2nd volume of Robo's adventures. Alas, Book One, Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne is out of print. Hopefully they'll soon reprint it, because $99 for the only available copies seems a bit pricey. I must say though that I am sorely tempted to bite the bullet, based on this exchange from it.

"It shot us out of the sky with a deathray!"
"It probably focuses sunlight through a series of mirrors and lenses."
"No way it can be that powerful."
"It's sound in theory. Solar deathray design was my doctorate thesis."

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Volume 1 is getting a new printing, arriving on-shelves this December. You can pre-order yours through your local comic shop now!

That's great! Not only will I save money, but what I'll spend(*) will go toward helping the authors live in the style to which they're accustomed.

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(*) One copy for myself, and one copy for this 7-year-old I know whose idea of proving that the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist involved booby-trapping his tooth.

You can also check out 3 free Atomic Robo stories at www.atomic-robo.com (though they are hosted by www.nuklearpower.com).

You probably got the 2008 FCBD story in Vol.2, but there's also the 2009 FCBD story and Digital Short (pages going up one a day all this week).

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I love it when someone new finds my book and doesn't hate it!

Best,

-Scott W.

Thanks. Heck, if there is more of your work that I don't know about, I'm quite glad to be told about it.

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