Atomic Robo goes Webcomic

The fact that it's Chinese-built may have something to do with it; but is it just me, or is there something about the eyes in Robo's new head that gives him a touch of an asian-like appearance?

I see it too. Not sure if that's intended or just because of the contrast from his rounder eyes to these more eye shaped eyes.

They're a little bit tilted now, I guess. Before they were more or less round and set entirely vertically, now they're more elliptical and a smidge off kilter.

edited 14th Nov '15 5:18:32 PM by kingtiger522

The mad quest to get Robo into space plows forward!

Gallows humour. Gallows humour EVERYWHERE.

New Dr Dinorsaur fact reminds me of the Heavy.

"SO MUCH BLOOD!"

New batch of pages Of course the giant island monster is swarming with smaller giant monsters. What did you expect? Man, Majestic is not Genre Savvy at all.

In all honesty, I wouldn't have expected the giant monster to be covered in smaller monsters, either.

Well, the Biomega are monsters, this one is the size of an island, making it a Monster Island.

...I'll see myself out now.

edited 23rd Nov '15 1:35:00 PM by danime91

Now that you mention it, I have to wonder if that's a Stealth Pun that was intentional on Clevenger's part or not.

edited 23rd Nov '15 9:10:16 PM by TheSpaceJawa

The clock starts now, and Robo finally realized what he's getting himself into.

And a bonus sketch from Scott's blog: Robo visits an old friend.

edited 26th Nov '15 9:02:45 AM by Blueeyedrat

"Well, believe me, Bernard, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid, and...I went ahead anyway." - Robo, probably

In' taday'z update, puny humie kan getz eaten by squigz.

Those look more like 'nids from where I'm sitting.

They're lacking most of the obvious features of Tyranid anatomy, most notably the chitinous exoskeleton, the six legs, or the five head plates.

On the other hand, they do have the two main features of squigs: blobbiness and an enormous mouth full of huge teeth.

Looking at them from this angle in today's update, while they have more limbs than most squigs, they don't have any particular Tyranid identifiers.

edited 29th Nov '15 10:18:21 AM by CountDorku

I figured the "gonna eat the planet" thing was the defining Tyranid trait.

I was going more from appearance than flavour.

(Although squigs are pretty big eaters too - there's an Ork "eating contest" where the Ork attempts to eat a face-biter squig before it eats him.)

A slight complication.

Or they'd just build a brand new and improved one and shoot that into space to replace it.

Hm, skipping around between pages, I see.

Anyway, so if by some strange hypothetical miracle, we were to get a full-length Atomic Robo animated series on a streaming service, would you guys rather see said hypothetical series as a Netflix Original Series or an Amazon Original Series?

I'd prefer Netflix mostly because I actually have Netflix.

edited 5th Dec '15 8:30:29 AM by TargetmasterJoe

Either/or. I haven't been hugely impressed with either's original offerings (other than Transparent), but I guess Netflix would be nice for the convenience.

As for the Space Weapon. Technically speaking, keeping it up there and reloading it would be less resource intensive and cheaper than letting it run dry, and then building a all new one to send up there.

And it would be easier to make sure there's always one up there, providing orbital support. If you're making a new one every few decades, then rebels can sabotage the new one and cripple your whole system, while if a reload attempt gets sabotaged, you'll probably still have time to send up more ammo.

There aren't many benefits to simply making another and tossing it up there. If you have a functional space gun it's easier just keeping it up and working than making a all new space gun and sticking it up there.

Neither, honestly.

I'd either rather see a full-blown major motion picture, or a good old fashion series on regular, normal television.