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kali921 (kali921) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-13 15:07:00

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creator: brian clevinger, creator: scott wegener, theme: dinosaurs, title: atomic robo

Atomic Robo vs. Dr. Dinosaur: Meta! Machine guns! Totally metal!
You know what we haven't had yet on Scans Daily 2.0? Atomic Robo, that's what. This needs to be remedied, stat! dejadrew's awesome Captain Raptor post earlier this week resulted in the mighty Brian Clevinger, the writer of Atomic Robo, linking me to one of the stories from the Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day issue.

This beautiful gem of a tale is titled "Why Atomic Robo hates Dr. Dinosaur."

Yes. You read that right. Dr. Dinosaur.

And lo, it was AWESOME.

The story is a flashback to 1999. Our titular (and marvelous) hero Atomic Robo finds himself on Taravai Island in French Polynesia.

Things aren't going well. Why? Because he's lampshading and littering meta all over the landscape with a sapient dinosaur. A sapient dinosaur with a MACHINE GUN.

Yes. That was a time traveling dinosaur with a rocket launcher.

But it's really the spatula and ice cooler that make Dr. Dinosaur rocket into the heady heights of "so awesome that awesome broke."

You can read this enthralling tale in its entirety right here for free as the gentlemen behind Atomic Robo have thoughtfully posted it on their website. When I got to the last page, I was literally weeping in laughter. This was easily the best thing put out by anyone on FCBD.

I really urge anyone who hasn't yet picked up issues of Atomic Robo to give it a try. It tends to sell out quickly, though, so get hopping to your LCS on Wednesdays!

I say we need a Dinosaur Week on

scans_daily. Have we had one yet?

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	darklorelei 2009-05-13 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	Loooove Robo so, so much. It's the best. ALSO. Dr. Dinosaur is going to feature prominently in volume 4 of AR! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kali921 2009-05-13 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, I saw that Brian wrote about that, and I cannot WAIT. More Dr. Dinosaur. I kept randomly waking up last night, thinking of this story, and cackling hysterically. My downstairs neighbor was very amused. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-05-13 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	I keep wanting to do Robo posts, but I can never figure out what to post so as not to be totally spoilery. Might post the Rasputin mini, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kali921 2009-05-13 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	I had a very hard time picking what to post just from this nine-page story. I kept wavering between "no, don't want to spoil it! Just give them teasers!" to wanting to post the entire thing. That's typically what happens when I read Atomic Robo. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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