Atomic Robo goes Webcomic

Would it really be gathering dust? I would guess the investigation included a pretty thorough look around, especially given that Robo's story would invite a lot of scrutiny.

When in doubt, Kazakhstan.

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Know your giant insectoid world-eating enemy. Is this the first mention of their origins? I know we met Shinka in the Other Strangeness story but it wasn't clear whether he made them or just studied them.

edited 7th Nov '15 9:39:53 AM by Shale

I was always under the impression that he had created them, and both the RPG and Tesladyne Field Guide confirm it - so it was at least in the supplements.

Speaking of, I flipped through the time line in the RPG today and saw Longinus in it. It is indeed going to be given back story in Spear of Destiny.

You'd think Japan would be used to giant monsters trying to eat their cities.

"Giant monster attacks Tokyo! When interviewed on this disaster, members of the public said 'Meh.'

'This happens every week,' said Asuka Hashimara, mother of two. 'They should really replace those kaiju nets.'"

Yeah, at this point it should be like earthquakes in California. Except you can't eat dead earthquake.

Can you really eat dead Kaiju? I thought those things were super-toxic.

I've seen both powdered kaiju bone and kaiju-meat-on-a-stick recommended.

Assuming this is correct, Science Team Super Five #@$!ed up huge back in 1999.

The plan B if Robo fails. It's an interesting flip - the first part of this arc showed Majestic's viewpoint before showing Robo's, and the closed perspective made it easy to see how Majestic's ideas and methods looked like necessary evils. Now, we've seen Robo's alternative first, and Majestic still manages to look reasonable because Robo's alternative is to breach an unbreachable and deeply classified Nazi space station using a Kazakhstani rocket launch station and something from Hashima. Like, I think that Robo's sheer degree of failure chance makes Majestic look a lot better here.

Except it really doesn't, because if Majestic wasn't so power-hungry and corrupt in the first place, they would have been collaborating with Robo and the other organizations from the beginning rathering than framing him and seizing power. Then Robo would have presented his plan and have been able to carry it out with much greater assets at his disposal, giving a much better chance at success.

edited 10th Nov '15 9:06:18 AM by danime91

ROBO WHY ARE YOU TAUNTING MURPHY

As a hard-headed man of science he doesn't truck with that superstitious nonsense.

Considering he's blown up a genuine Eldritch Abomination from beyond the universe and fought off an incursion from the Vampire Dimension, perhaps he should.

edited 12th Nov '15 9:24:03 AM by danime91

There's nothing "magical" about an extradimensional critter with a nonlinear approach to time, and they're just called vampires because they're horrible and want to eat your blood. This is still a verse that plays lip service to science, at least when Dr. Dinosaur's not within earshot.

Which is why I want a story where Robo has to go to Cumberland, Maryland more than anything in the world.

edited 12th Nov '15 1:12:17 PM by SonOfSharknado

Robo definitely believes in Murphy's Law. Remember how he reacted to seeing the Quantum Decomputer?

Oh yeah, that's right, he was trying to claim the computer was evil. Which was totally accurate, but not very hard-headed scientist of him.

The other Action Scientists don't seem to share your optimism, Robo. I wonder why.

So, just to be sure, no one here is worried about Robo because of that comic that chronologically takes place after the events here, right?

edited 13th Nov '15 11:01:26 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I doubt anyone would expect them to kill off - or nearly kill off - Robo for two stories in a row, even without the foregone conclusion.

Besides, there's plenty of other people that can suffer the consequences if things actually do go wrong...

I'm beginning to wonder if Robo took Advanced Planning under John Crichton.

As Broughton noted, this is Robo when he sees the threat coming. We usually see him in Indy Ploy mode, so instead we see him marshaling a century's worth of connections and secrets, then combining that with his trademark recklessness and tendency to solve problems by blowing things up and hoping he outlives the opposition.