If you read comic books (y’nerd) then please take this survey.

It offers the opportunity to explain your answers and the folks who put it together really really want to hear those explanations. So, please, take your time and be thoughtful with your answers.

I’m seeing some misinformation out there, so here’s my attempt to set the record straight.

Earlier this year some folks at DC Comics asked me to helm a Firestorm relaunch following directly from the events of Blackest Night and Brightest Day. We went back and forth on the pitch until I had clearance to move forward with the script.

But then people higher up the chain of command decided it was time to do The Big Reboot and suddenly my project was surplus to requirements. I mean, look at the names on those reboot titles: everyone involved is a staple of DC. I’m just some guy. A simple B-lister relaunch is something they can trust to an unknown like me. But when you’re talking about part of an unprecedented line-wide reset, well, they want to minimize the unknowns. DC veterans Gail Simone and Ethan Van Scriver picked up writing duties on Firestorm for the reboot, and I wish them the best.

My project was just a casualty of the current strategy. These things happen all the time.

Still. Just once I’d like to be given a series that gets cancelled on its own merits!

Oh, well. More time for Atomic Robo!

Remember that Fallout video?

Well, we want to make more. Think you guys can help?

Scott Wegener and I will be at HeroesCon in Charlotte NC this weekend, June 3rd – 5th.

Witness the Melting Yankee as he withers under the mildly humid weather south of the Mason-Dixon Line!

Watch the Living Ghoul. He talks, he shambles — all without an ounce of blood in his veins!

We will have all four volumes of Atomic Robo comic book trade paperbacks. Including! A handful of the rare and sold out and absurdly-priced-everywhere-but-here Vol 2!

Also! Do you have kids? Are you a kid? Why are you reading this website, kid? There could be curse words like penis and bastard. Yeah, I know penis isn’t a curse word, but we’re going with the broader Things You Shouldn’t Say Around Grandma definition here, try to keep up.

So yeah, bring kids by our table and get ’em loaded. With free comics! Don’t want free comics? Too bad! We will chase you.

No, not coffee. Or pancakes. Or tacos. Or slivovitz. Or porno.

Space Pirates and Zombies. Which, okay, sounds like the craftless dreck a six year old would write, but no. You play as some space pirates, and they’re not “We’re nerds and have no idea when a joke is over” space poirates yar, but more like 40k Rogue Traders with a busted fleet trying to scrape together a profit in a war torn galaxy. And eventually you run into some creepy techno-zombies that’re like the goddamn Borg and shit gets real(tm).

Mining, exploring, 2D space fighting, ship building and customizing, it’s a fun time. You can get the demo or pick up the beta, which is essentially the full game at a discount. Fair warning: if you get the demo, you will black out after a while and wake up to find you bought the beta. Be careful.

Full disclosure: it can get a little grindy every so often. The galaxy is randomly generated, so there will be times when you’ve got to stop and level up a bit before you can move on. It’s not too bad though: levels come relatively quick, and you can scour battlefield maps where the game’s two factions fight each other for quickie experience, minerals, and body farming — let them kill each other, reap the rewards, fuck tha po-lice.