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Atomic Robo is an American comic book series depicting the adventures of the eponymous character, a self-aware robot built by a fictional version of Nikola Tesla, created by ''8-Bit Theater'' writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener. The series is split into several mini-series, each depicting a different era and adventure in Atomic Robo's long life-span. A companion series called Real Science Adventures has published two volumes. Both feature stories by Clevinger with rotating artists in place of Wegener, who provides covers for the series. ==Publication history== The series began as a six-issue limited series published by Red 5 Comics starting in October 2007. It was nominated in the "Best Limited Series" category of the 2008 Eisner Awards,〔(2008 Eisner Award Nominees Named ) (press release), Newsarama, April 14, 2008〕 won by ''The Umbrella Academy''.〔(The 2008 Eisner Awards: 2008 Eisner Award Winners ) Comic-Con. Accessed 07 September 2008. (Archived ) 07 September 2008.〕 Colorist Ronda Pattison was also nominated in the "Best Coloring" category subsequently won by Dave Stewart.〔〔 The first six issues of the series have been collected as ''Atomic Robo Volume 1: Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne''. ''Atomic Robo Volume 2: Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War'' was released as a trade paperback on February 18, 2009. The third series, ''Atomic Robo Volume 3: Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time'', was released in trade on December 23, 2009, and a fourth, ''Atomic Robo Volume 4: Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness'', has been released in issue format and will be published in trade in the summer of 2010. A fifth volume, ''Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science'', was released in November 2010 and came to its conclusion in May 2011. In April 2012 ''Atomic Robo Volume 6: The Ghost of Station X'' became the second Atomic Robo miniseries to be nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eisner Nomination for Atomic Robo! )〕 With the release of Volume 10, Clevinger announced that the collected volumes will no longer be numbered. Given the non-linear nature of the volumes there was no necessary reading order, thus it was no longer necessary to number volumes as each volume is designed to be a jumping on point for new readers. Starting in March 2012, an additional title was published, ''Atomic Robo Presents Real Science Adventures'', in which all writing was done by Brian Clevinger, but there were five different stories or chapters of stories, continued each issue, each drawn by a different artist. A second volume was published in 2014 with a single story focusing on Tesla and his team trying to stop the "Billion Dollar Scheme". This story predates Robo's creation. On January 16, 2015, Clevinger and Wegener announced on atomic-robo.com blog and on YouTube that, after allowing the expiration of their publishing contract with Red 5, all existing and upcoming issues of ''Atomic Robo'' will be published online as free webcomics.〔http://www.atomic-robo.com/state-of-the-robo-2015-edition/〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&feature=player_embedded&v=hryZVnuwsUc&x-yt-cl=84503534〕 Clevinger reiterated this on his website on January 21, 2015.〔http://www.nuklearpower.com/2015/01/21/hey-a-webcomic/〕 On June 19, 2015, Clevinger and Wegener announced on atomic-robo.com that IDW Publishing will handle the physical printing of all Atomic Robo comics. The comics are still available free on the website with half a page being uploaded daily before IDW's physical release. IDW will also release multi-volume softcover collections, the first of which is called "Everything Explodes Collection". This consists of the first three volumes of the comic. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.atomic-robo.com/blog/page/3 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.atomic-robo.com/blog/page/2 )〕 Comixology will also continue providing digital copies of the series through their Comixology Submit program. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atomic Robo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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