Whatever happened to the Blog of Tomorrow? or, How I spent the holidays

Robot 6

by JK Parkin | January 2, 2009 @ 2:30 AM | 41 Comments |

Contrary to popular belief, we weren’t eaten by anyone, nor did we run off to the woods to learn to play the banjo and write a manifesto. Nope, we’ve spent the last few weeks working with Jonah Weiland and the fine folks here at Comic Book Resources to bring you a new blog, here on a new site, with a new name, look and outlook. Unfortunately, you’re still stuck with the same old me, but I guess you can’t have everything.

So what the heck is a Robot 6? You’ll have to ask Kevin Melrose, who came up with our cool new name. Although I’d be hard pressed to tell you what happened to Robots 1-5, I can share what I do know: Robot 6 is a new comics blog by many of the folks from the old Blog@Newsarama. In addition to Kevin and me, you’ll also find Lisa Fortuner, Tom Bondurant, Michael May, Melissa Krause, Stephanie Chan, Tim O’Shea and Chris Mautner here. You’ll also find a couple of people whose names you might recognize from the comics industry – Jennifer de Guzman from SLG Publishing and Larry Young of AiT/Planet Lar fame. And no doubt there will be some other folks popping up from time to time as well … what’s life without a few surprises?

We’ll be bringing you our unique take on the comics world every day, and hopefully complementing the great work being done by CBR’s editorial staff, its many columnists, and our friends and fellow bloggers at Comics Should Be Good!

I want to thank Jonah for his support over the last month. When we left Newsarama, we didn’t know where we were going to land, we only knew we wanted to keep the band together. Jonah made it really easy to decide to set up our new home here at Comic Book Resources. It’s been a blast working with Jonah so far, and I look forward to seeing what we can do together in the future.

I also want to thank Stephen Gerding, who has been instrumental in getting us up and running. He set up the site, did the visual design and created our kick-ass new logo. Two weeks ago we didn’t have any of that stuff, but he managed to bring it all together in record time.

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t thank our official sponsor. In case you hadn’t noticed, IDW Publishing is helping to make this all possible. Between this and all the support Scott Dunbier has put toward our auctions for our injured friend Carla Hoffman, I probably owe someone over there my first born. Or at least my dog.

Although our official launch isn’t until Monday, be sure to check back over the weekend … it’s been too long since we had the chance to talk about comics like this, and we don’t plan on waiting. So add us to your RSS reader, subscribe to our Twitter feed (which ~~should be up before Monday~~ is up right now) and say hello in our comments section.

We’re back. Let’s have some fun.

Tagged: robot 6

41 Comments

David Gallaher

January 2, 2009 at 7:58 am

Double Huzzah! This is gonna be awesome! Welcome back!

Dean Haspiel

January 2, 2009 at 8:00 am

Welcome Back!

David Uzumeri

January 2, 2009 at 8:47 am

Jen de Guzman and Larry Young?!? Sir, that’s no Raven Gregory or Filip Sablik.

David Uzumeri

January 2, 2009 at 8:47 am

Also, this comments thread is only for people whose names start with “D.”

Tobey COok

January 2, 2009 at 8:48 am

Welcome back, guys. Glad to see you finally found a new home!

Chris Hunter

January 2, 2009 at 9:02 am

It’s about time!

Glad to have the boys back in town!!

Jeff Stolarcyk

January 2, 2009 at 9:18 am

Yay! So glad to have you all back! Consider me subscribed.

Lucas Siegel

January 2, 2009 at 9:29 am

Good on you, JK. I for one missed your musings. Best of luck in the new home!

Shaun

January 2, 2009 at 9:50 am

Good to have you guys back!

Sluggo

January 2, 2009 at 10:05 am

So glad we still have you guys around. I’ve been gravitating more towards CBR these days anyway.

Joshua Fialkov

January 2, 2009 at 10:08 am

KIck-ass! Welcome back, guys!

Stuart Moore

January 2, 2009 at 10:17 am

Welcome back & here’s to 2009!

Chip Mosher

January 2, 2009 at 10:50 am

Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about.

Happy New Years, guys!

neil kleid

January 2, 2009 at 11:17 am

Welcome back, folks. Good to see you again.

Nick Marino

January 2, 2009 at 11:47 am

THANK JEEBUS YOU’RE BACK!!!!!!! at CBR, nonetheless. very chic.

Nick Marino

January 2, 2009 at 11:51 am

WAIT ONE MINUTE……… i just added your new RSS feed and I was shocked to find that the feed only populates with truncated posts! that’s an RSS reader nightmare!!! please reconsider this move and put the entirety of your posts into the RSS feed.

Dave Campbell

January 2, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Welcome, Robot 6. Please don’t enslave the human race.

A

January 2, 2009 at 12:12 pm

Happy New Year! Welcome back!

JK Parkin

January 2, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Thanks everyone!

Nick, the RSS feed should be fixed now … I’ve updated the settings.

Erech O!

January 2, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Oh thank god you guys are back. HAPPY NEW YEAR INDEED.

Vincent Murphy

January 2, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Is Robot 6 three less than IO 9?

Nick Marino

January 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Thanks JK!!!!!!!!

Kat Kan

January 2, 2009 at 1:03 pm

E komo mai! Welcome! Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Happy New Year! I’m so glad to see y’all back!

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Julia

January 2, 2009 at 3:03 pm

JK, glad to have this blogging band back together again. But everytime I try to subscribe to the rss field, I keep seeing what I assume are your test messages, not your most recent posts.

JR

January 2, 2009 at 4:59 pm

A blog that doesn’t annoy the crap out of me on CBR!!!

James Schee

January 2, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Great to see you all in one place, that’s a lot easier to navigate to. I’ve got my RSS on, so I’ll be checking in.

Alan Coil

January 2, 2009 at 6:17 pm

Welcome back to all the gang!

I’ve missed reading comic book stuff while you were re-trenching.

BTW, is Robot 6 anything like the Chicago 7?

Matthew E

January 2, 2009 at 7:45 pm

This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping would happen.

Avalon's Willow

January 2, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Sweet, sweeter, sweetest.

I’ve tried to come up with several things to say that are positive and not negative to the others guys. Can’t do it.

Tim O'Shea

January 3, 2009 at 12:54 am

Alan, while not speaking for the group, if we were like the Chicago 7, I believe I am the Lee Weiner of the group. According to ever questionably reliable Wikipedia, J. Anthony Lukas described Weiner as “a strangely remote figure who shunned most of the defendants’ extracurricular activities.” That is so me.

ejulp

January 3, 2009 at 3:01 am

Just wanted to stop by and say thank god you guys are back.

You’ve really, really been missed.

ejulp

January 3, 2009 at 3:11 am

…oh, and any chance you Robot 6 peoples can steal back Graeme McMillan?

Martin Gray

January 3, 2009 at 6:41 am

Welcome to CBR, chaps – the section looks good. May you have loads of fun in 2009.

Sallyp

January 3, 2009 at 8:20 am

Well, hail and hallelujah. I missed you all.

JK Parkin

January 3, 2009 at 8:46 am

“But everytime I try to subscribe to the rss field, I keep seeing what I assume are your test messages, not your most recent posts.”

Hi Julia — what URL are you putting into your reader? I’m not sure what would be causing that, but I can check with the technical folks and see if they can figure it out.

Anyone else having that same problem?

ADD

January 3, 2009 at 11:52 am

Welcome back, JK! Looking forward to seeing what develops.

Robot 6