Just a reminder that Warbot in Accounting updated yesterday and a heads up that 8-bit Theater updated a few minutes ago. Enjoy!

Remember, Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. I will be signing at Sci-Fi City in Orlando, FL just like last year and I’ll swing by Bad Apple Comics UCF. Drop by, say hello, get free stuff!

Lastly, it seems that Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1 didn’t make it to every store this week. That would be Diamond‘s fault. They promise everyone will have it next week, but then they promised everyone would have it this week. Service with a smirk.

EDIT: I have seen the shipping lists, the issue will definitely be available everywhere on the 6th. I love Diamond. I love Diamond so goddamn much it hurts. Like a heart attack.

ComiXology has a five page preview of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1.

Meanwhile, the fourth issue is is now available for pre-order locally and online — Team Robo likes Heavy Ink, but you’ve got options.

And just so I don’t create a third straight Robo post, you can look at this here.

You heard it here first unless you heard it somewhere else before you heard it here: Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1 hits stores this Wednesday — 100% guaranteed, confirmed by Diamond — 4/29/09. And it’s about damned time.

It looks like this.

If you’ve been on the fence about getting into Atomic Robo, this weekend is the perfect chance to check it out. Volume 3, like all our mini-series, stands on its own so it won’t matter if you’re not familiar with the title. This one’s got H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Fort, Carl Sagan (watch Cosmos), and the original Science Agents of Tesladyne. If that doesn’t sound like a great time to you, then you don’t know enough about history or you’re dead on the inside. If it’s the latter, sorry you had to hear it from a stranger, but at least you know the truth, right?

But it gets better because Saturday May 2nd is Free Comic Book Day. So you can get an all-new and all-free issue of Atomic Robo as well as Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time #1. Make sure your local shop is participating in FBCB and that they’re well-stocked with copies of Atomic Robo. If you can’t make it to a local shop, you can get Robo online and we promise to put the FCBD story into a trade paperback later this year (and maybe online) anyway so it works out.

I will be signing at Sci-Fi City in Orlando, FL just like last year and I’ll swing by Bad Apple Comics UCF. Drop by, say hello, get free stuff!

I dream about time travel. Not often, but often enough that it’s a theme. You know?

And I don’t mean, like, seeing dinosaurs or the 18th century. It’s always this weird illustration of a paradox or an ironic twist out of Twilight Zone.

For example, in my most recent time travel dream I fell into the near future, maybe a matter of a few hours, where my actions indirectly killed someone across the street whom I couldn’t see. I fell back into the present where I spent the next couple of hours kind of freaking out about the whole event, took a drive to clear my head, got out to stretch my legs, and had the most gut wrenching sense of déjà vu you can imagine. I knew instantly what you figured out a couple sentences ago if you’ve read more than a handful of sci-fi stories — I was about to be killed by me. The realization woke me up like when you dream about falling — only it was the inevitability of causality instead of gravity that terrified me awake.

I mean, what the hell was that about, subconscious?

…for this. But I won’t.