If you haven’t gotten your Atomic Robo statue yet, it’s probably time to give up on life. It’s not a terrible fate. Oh, sure, there’s a lot of crying and a hollow, sucking void where your hope and dreams used to be. There’s that. Granted. But, y’know, it could be worse. There could be no statue on sale at all! Think about that for a minute.

Good god, I’m a terrible salesman.

To make up for that we’re bringing you seven all-new, all-different, all-exclusive pages of Atomic Robo action next week — one per day! They may also feature some other character, who knows! And, yeah, these pages will be in addition to your regular scheduled 8BT, HIKYM, and Warbot in Accounting. What’s that? More Warbot? Yes! Well, maybe! After a ton of delays on his end followed by a two tons more of delays on my end, the script is in Zack’s hands. Or maybe just his computer, I don’t know if he prints these things out or what. Anyway, I’ll abuse him via instant messenger, text, voice mail, and Skype until there’s a finished product for you guys to be depressed by.

I do this out of love for you, the audience. A sick, sick love that usually gets someone locked up. But, dammit, it is love.

Okay, so Pathfinder is a great game. I’ve talked about it before, but for those of you who missed our or have brains like goldfish, it’s a straight port of D&D 3.5 with tons — actual metric and long tons — of little changes to streamline and balance your D&D experience for those of us who aren’t so hot on 4th ed.

The only complaint I’ve heard about this book is that it’s expensive. It ought to be. At 576 fully color, high-quality, glossy pages it’s easily the best RPG product I’ve ever owned. It retails for $50, but you can grab Pathfinder at Amazon for under $40 with shipping.

If you’re still worried about taking that financial plunge, or don’t feel like waiting for the 1 – 2 month shipping time (seriously, what, mine showed up in like 3 days) you can find the full rules online! Like, legally. Here’s Paizo’s official SRD for Pathfinder. Here’s another one I found earlier today with better readability. And, yeah, they have everything you need to play your game. All the rules, classes, character progression charts, all that jazz. Paizo is making quite a statement by putting their product out there, in full, for free, without any restrictions or hoop jumps.

Anyone confused by today’s comic needs a history lesson.

So, what’s happenin’?

I finished the super rush job thang that delayed Tuesday’s page, so, y’know, score. I never wrote so much my back hurt, but here we are. Hopefully we’ll have some amazing news on that hitherto top secret front in the coming weeks. Tuesday night saw another installment of The Nerdy Show pierce the veil of reality. Or, I dunno, I was reading Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine the whole time. There’s a curtain in the room where we do the recording and that’s like a veil.

The fifth and final issue of Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time came out yesterday. Check out the six page preview to find out why your life is a hollow, ugly thing without it. For you mongrel trade waiters out there, among whom I definitely absolutely 100% do not belong get away from my bookshelves shut up — the collected edition will be available in early December. It may include bonus mini-stories that didn’t make it into the issues themselves! Or, come to think of it, I’d rather see those in Vol 4 issues so no one’s screwed out of content. I’ll make a few phone calls, break some legs, get that rolling. B-Clev’s got your back.

I’ll leave you with this. Among my top secret projects, there’s a little something we’re cooking up for 8-bit. Or is it somethings? The only barrier to this knowledge is the future and it is rapidly eroding.