At long last, our new online store is open for business!

Some pretty swanky discounts in there. Check 'em out!

We found Charlie as a stray at our apartment complex back in Orlando. We'll never know exactly what brought him into our lives, but it seems clear that he was abandoned as a kitten when his previous owners moved out. He was filthy, starving, and (as we would find out when we got him to the vet's office) riddled with parasites. Our plan was to get him checked out, fixed, vaccinated, etc., so we could find him a home. But the docs quickly found he had feline panleukopenia. They told us that typically had a 90% mortality rate, but that might be as low as 70% for Charlie because they'd caught it so early.

They kept him for a couple weeks. We visited every few days. The vets told us that a big part of what makes panleukopenia so lethal is that, even with ample treatment, the disease makes them so tired and so miserable to live through that they just give up. You would never have believed Charlie was sick much less beating death. He was surrounded by all these people giving him attention all day, like hell he was gonna give that up.

Charlie beat the odds, we brought him home, and spoiled him rotten every day for the next 17 years. And in return he ran our lives for us. He became so involved in every part of our daily routines that he'll never be gone. "He lives on in our memories" doesn't begin to describe it. He's at the center of our concept of what a home is.

As often happens with older cats, Charlie's kidneys began to fail. There's no cure for this, only management, and even that is iffy. You might get a few days, a few weeks, maybe as much as a year. He responded extremely well to treatment at first but after a few weeks he stopped eating. He kept trying to run the household for us, to make sure we stuck to the routines, and to participate in them as much as he could. All these years he'd thought he was taking care of us and he didn't know how to stop. On Sunday, November 3rd, we put Charlie to rest in the comfort of his home surrounded by the people he loved most.

I'll be blunt. It's been an expensive couple of weeks. While any help would be appreciated, please don't feel bad if you can't. We are well aware of the state of things generally and this week in specific. Thank you for reading all this.

There is less than a week left in our Kickstarter campaign for the hardcover edition of ATOMIC ROBO AND THE AGENTS OF C.H.A.N.G.E.! The story so good we had to take a year off to let you cool down enough to forget how much you hated us for doing that thing we did so you'd start reading the current series.

Anyway! The new campaign...

We're offering the hardcover (duh), two standees with a third unlocked and a fourth on the way, original art, print sets, and maybe sticker sheets if you behave yourself.

The campaign ends on MONDAY so don't delay, pledge today!

Time for another Atomic Robo hardcover edition! This time we're doing ATOMIC ROBO AND THE AGENTS OF C.H.A.N.G.E.

The final product will look something like this!

We've also got standees, prints, original art, and more! You've been here long enough, you know the routine. And definitely check out that campaign video, it's my least shitpostiest one yet.

WE'RE BACK, BABY.

Almost!

Pages from our newest volume, Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus, will begin to go online in one week. We can't thank you folks enough for the patience and support you've shown since the Great Hiatus of 2023 began. You have no idea how excited we are to finally be making and sharing comics again. It's like we've been holding our breath for a whole year. Let's never be apart that long again. Deal?

And just to keep you updated on the rest of the September to Remember, our online store is still scheduled to come back online in the next few weeks. The next waves of deliveries for our recent Kickstarter campaigns will begin to go out the door as well, so make sure to lock in your shipping charges and add-ons through Pledge Manager!

And we're still serializing the failed Martian invasion of 1897 and the rise of Emperor Dracula with a new chapter over on Patreon every weekend.

A quick update so you know what's happenin' here at ye olde Atomic Robo HQ.

INVENTORY AND ONLINE STORE

All inventory arrived at the new warehouse where they have been preparing and organizing everything to get us back in biz. They offered to make it "back in biznasty" but we were like, no guys, don't hurt yourselves. Currently, we expect the new online store to go live in September. For folks who completed their Pledge Manager surveys after everything was packed up to move to the new warehouse, your rewards will start to go out at that time as well.

NEW COMICS?!

Meanwhile, Scott has been churning out new pages like a beast! We are on track to begin releasing all new comics online in September. We knew when it began in 2023 that this would be the longest hiatus of our career. And, with any luck, that'll be true forever. Thank you so much for the patience and kindness you have extended to us. We can't wait to show you what we've been cooking up.

NEW NOVEL?!

If you want something to read right now, check out our Patreon where every week I post a new chapter from the novel I'm working on. It is a bold work exploiting two of the most popular public domain works from the 1890s. Yes, that's right, it's War of the Worlds, only the germs don't stop them — DRACULA DOES!

Okay, folks. We're moving our entire inventory to another warehouse/fulfillment outfit this summer. That means it's time for A MONDO SALE to make sure the best fans in the world (that's you folks) can grab everything you want before we have to shut everything down for a few months.

Another way to look at this is that we're actually bribing you with a huge discounts to help us lower our transport costs. Well, I won't deny that factors into our calculations. But is it so bad to be plied with savings? I could have just relied entirely on flattery, but of course you're too smart to fall for that. And you smell so nice!

What are we offering? What aren't we offering! Uh, knives, I guess. We do not sell knives. But here is some of what is, in fact, on sale.

Atomic Robo Plushie — $19

Atomic Robo the RPG and M12 Supplement — $30 for both
Tabletop nerds, this one is for you. These books are out of print and we have the final supply on the face of Earth!

Doctor Dinosaur's Time Travel Through the Backdoor — $15 softcover or $25 hardcover

Tesladyne Field Guide — $5 (a steal!)

All Print Sets — $10 Dawn of a New Era / Nicodemus Job / Spectre of Tomorrow / Real Science Adventures

Mystery Shirts Now Include Proton & Electron & Neutron & Hadron & Fermion & Boson

Atomic Robo Sticker Pack — $5

Bumper Sticker Set — $5

Button Pack — $5

HARDCOVERS ARE 25% OFF!

• Spectre of Tomorrow
• Nicodemus Job
• Other Strangeness
• Deadly Art of Science
  
• Dogs of War
• Fighting Scientists of Tesladyne
  
• Flying-She Devils of the Pacific
• Ghost of Station X
• Knights of the Golden Circle
• Ring of Fire
• Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur
  
• Temple of Od
• Raid on Marauder Island
• Dawn of a New Era

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but Atomic Robo's very own co-creator and artists Scott Wegener is drawing pages for the first issue of the next series AT THIS VERY MOMENT.

Well, I mean, maybe not this exact moment. I can't know when you're reading this. But the main take away is that new pages are being made. We still need to color and letter these pages of course. And we want a nice, juicy buffer of completed pages before we start posting any. But new pages ARE HAPPENING and that's reason enough to celebrate after the year we've had.

Meanwhile, I'd like to draw your attention to two new projects.

CULT OF THE MORACH

Cult of the Morach is an investigative, event-based scenario for characters of experience levels 2 - 4. This adventure is campaign/setting-agnostic and compatible with any old-school fantasy adventure game. For use with modern fantasy TTRPGs, a GM need only swap out monster stats for the system of their choice.

8-BIT THEATER THE ROLEPLAYING GAME WHERE YOU'RE THE LIGHT WARRIORS GETTING ISEKAI'D TO A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT WORLDS BUT IT ALWAYS GOES WRONG BECAUSE THEY ARE REAL BAD AT THIS

8BTTRGWYTLWGITABODWBIAGWBTARBAT is literally what it says on the tin. We got rules for playing as the Light Warriors as they try to save whatever doomed world you build for them. Unfortunately, like 80% of what you do will backfire on you, or your friends, or innocent bystanders, and the world will not be saved. But, hey, you had fun the whole time and that's what matters.

Would you folks like to help us out? Of course you would!

We have got to clear out some inventory to make space in ye olde warehouse to make room for ye newe stuffe in the warehouse.

At this point you might want to ask, "Is he trying to get us to buy things so we can buy more things later?"

That's a fair question! Unfortunately we aren't taking questions at this time.

But what we are doing is helping you to help us by slashing prices on damn near everything in our online store for the rest of the year! Let's take a look at what some of those discounts look like.

First up, you can get the Skeleton King Chapter 1 book for just $8. It's just like a Twitter subscription only you get something out of it! Or you can get the whole Skeleton King Bundle for a just $20 — a whopping 98% savings (from the ludicrously high retail price that we would never charge anyway but it still counts)?!

You definitely want to pick up the Plushie Head of a Robot Named Robo for only $15. That's less than half price!

You want print sets? We got print sets! Real Science Adventures, Nicodemus Job, Spectre of Tomorrow, and Dawn of a New Era are just $12 each!

But that ain't all. The following volumes are all 24% off for the rest of the year!

The Fighting Scientists of Tesladyne

The Dogs of War

The Shadow from Beyond Time

Other Strangeness

The Deadly Art of Science

The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific

The Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur

The Temple of Od

RSA: The Nicodemus Job

RSA: The Flying She-Devils in Raid on Marauder Island

Whew, that's a lot of discounts! Please use them to buy things to help us make more room in the warehouse to make you more things to buy and don't stop to think about this process for even one second!

Woke up to find out I was suspended from Twitter.

You can find me on Bluesky.

You can join our Patreon.

Or sign up to our Newsletter that we've never actually used so it's not going to be something we spam.

There's also the unofficial subreddit.

And, of course, just visit your favorite webcomic (THIS ONE) and keep an eye out for fresh blogs. 

So, why was I suspended? That's the fun part, no one knows!

Pretty damning stuff as you can see!

I appealed on the grounds of, well, c'mon already. The reply was instantaneous! Which is a sure sign that a human definitely exists somewhere in the appeal process lol lmao no sorry, zero percent chance there's a single person in that entire department anymore.

To be clear, I still have no idea what was posted or when. Oh, and I will never know! Extremely good and functional system they've got there. I absolutely do not wish for the whole operation to metaphorically and nonviolently burn to the ground.