So, three weeks later, we have another Warbot comic. Every comic we make, a little part of me dies. I’m pretty sure at this rate, I will no longer have a soul in a matter of weeks.

In other words, I’ll be just like Brian!

I’ve got a couple of cool announcements. First off, I’m developing a live action comedy web series that’s going to film in July. Here’s a teaser poster for you.

Think Hellboy meets Buffy with a little Ghostbusters and Men in Black. Clevinger and I are well on our way with the writing, and it’s going to be a blast. That’s right, Brian is helping with the writing.

Second, I’m doing another 24 hour Draw-a-thon this coming Sunday, the 7th, starting at 12pm PST/3pm EST. 24 hours of drawing whatever the people want. You can head over to the page now and save the link.  I’ve got a couple reasons for this draw-a-thon…

Reason 1: My buddy Dan has run into a harsh financial rut in life right now and he needs help to make sure he’s not homeless at the end of the month. Now, he’s mentioned many times not to worry about him. What I worry about is his cats Bishop, Jothee, Weasley and Roswell. Currently, he needs just enough to cover the deposits for a new place, and he’s got a home for another year. If that happens, all is well and the boys continue to love and be loved. I just want to make sure it stays that way, and with your help, it can. I’ve posted the donation button on the ustream page already, so feel free to help out before the event if you’d like. All the donations are going strait to Dan himself.

For those of you who want to help, but are currently looking for work; Dan created a helpful forum that you should check out.

Reason 2: My old Wacom tablet that Buckley gave me back in 2007 when I was drawing Analog and D+Pad finally died. It was a trooper, but it couldn’t take the heat so it got out of the kitchen. The kitchen of life. Now, if you guys want me to continue Warbot and the other stuff you don’t know about, then I need a new tablet. I’m currently borrowing one from a friend, but he needs it back on Tuesday. So, if I can make enough to cover a small Intuos4, then we’re good.

Reason 3: We need a budget for our webseries (see first announcement) and anything we get can help. We’re trying to come up with something cool for the donators, but at the moment, all we can do is say thanks. We expect to do this webseries for as little as possible, so anything helps.

So, that’s that. Hope you all enjoy Warbot this week. And tell Brian to write a shorter one so it can get done faster. For those who care to see what was behind Warbot, I posted the screens from the Atomic Robo movie featured in todays comic in the fourms.

I suspect the 8-bit Theater button on the right is screwed up due to some kinda caching issue I don’t pretend to understand. All the code is correct and there’s no reason for it not to display properly. So, yeah, the devil’s caching is at work here. Ha, I fixed it (or it un-cached itself). Take that, devil!

Check out the first five pages of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #2. It hits shelves tomorrow. How’s that for short warning?

“A true Lovecraftian horror rampages through New York City. Armed with nothing but CHARLES FORT and a pair of Tesla-built Lightning guns, ATOMIC ROBO must stop THE SHADOW FROM BEYOND TIME before it swallows the world in darkness forever.”

You should pick it up. The reviews for the first one are pretty good.

Meanwhile: pre-production on nuklearpower.com’s new Kung Fu webcomic forges ahead. Here’s what few details I can share with you:

It will update with two full black and white pages per week. The first “series” will be a complete story and should range between 90 and 140 pages. There will be the potential for any number of additional series after that depending on audience and creator interest. It’s not a comedy, but there is some comedy. Put another way, Atomic Robo is to Ghostbusters as this new comic is to Indiana Jones.

We haven’t yet figured out the release date, but we should have some character art for you to gawk at later this week.

Where’s your new Warbot in Accounting?

First, five of the seven pages for the new update were eaten by Zack’s hard drive. Then he started to re-draw them.

Then his Wacom pen exploded. We can but hope there was shrapnel and some of it is lodged in his neck.

But once he’s out of the hospital and the machine spirits can be assuaged, then we’ll have a new Warbot comic for you.

This next comic is paralyzing me. I’ve got a script here, but I can’t decide if I want this script to be the next comic or if I should write another one to precede this one. Gonna sleep on it and do one or the other in the morning. In case anyone missed it, here’s Saturday’s Tuesday’s comic. I think I figured out how to make it more obvious to casual readers when one of my comics updates, so I’ll tinker with that in the next week.

Also, thank you again to everyone who submitted to draw the new nuklearpower.com comic. We made our selection, contacted the artist, and suckered him into a lifetime binding contract that makes Siegel and Shuster look like a couple of millionaires. Stay tuned for more info as we prepare to go live in the near-ish future!

In case you missed it, here’s Thursday’s 8-bit and today’s.

The last issue of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time is available for pre-order. Meanwhile, Scott and I recorded ourselves talking about our inspirations and the origins of Atomic Robo as a concept. Take a listen if you’re into that sort of thing.

I’d like to thank all the artists who expressed interest in art-ing NP.com’s upcoming Kung Fu Semi-Epic. You jerks are not making it an easy choice, but we’re still accepting applications.

Lastly, Zack reports that progress on the latest Warbot is slow but steady. It’s our longest and most complex installment to date, so that ain’t helping. That and all the therapy he has to go through every time he finishes a page and realizes that, yes, he is a horrible monster for enabling things like this. He’s a trooper.