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Tweak says, "ROOOOOOAR"

drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-16 01:54:00

Entry tags:

char: captain atom/nathaniel adam, char: steel/vaporlock/natasha irons, creator: greg rucka, creator: james robinson, title: action comics

Action Comics #882

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	shadowpsykie 2009-10-16 06:08 am UTC (link)
	i migh thave to stop skipping this, mainly for Natasha, love her. im just really...confused... can some one give me a run down of Captain Atom's history Monarch on... i honestly dont even remember WHY he became Monarch (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-10-16 06:14 am UTC (link)
	Truth is, nobody really knows why he became Monarch again during the previous crisis...ses. I don't think any of the writers even did, either. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jaybee3 2009-10-16 12:56 pm UTC (link)
	Well now they can explain the Monarch (again) thing away as one of Sam Lane's dastardly plans. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	drsevarius 2009-10-16 06:16 am UTC (link)
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Atom#Monarch (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-10-16 06:13 am UTC (link)
	PLEASE TELL ME THEY'RE TRYING TO BRING BACK OLD CAPTAIN ATOM PLEASE (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-16 08:12 am UTC (link)
	While I do like this look, I like the old look, too. Is there a word for not having a preference? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-10-16 09:44 am UTC (link)
	Ambivalent? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-16 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, I don't like that term. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sd_mouser 2009-10-17 01:16 am UTC (link)
	"Fed up" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nerium_oleander 2009-10-16 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Indifferent. (Reply to this) (Parent)

richardak
2009-10-17 11:56 pm UTC (link)

What do you mean when you say "old Captain Atom"? Do you mean the pre-Crisis version? The Bates/Weisman version? Or the not-a-mass-murderer-for-no-reason-whatsoever version?

What I can't figure out is this: how did Rucka and Robinson remember Cap's resistance to magic, but forget that his last name is Adam, not Allen? Or have they decided to retcon the character's name?

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	foxhack 2009-10-18 12:26 am UTC (link)
	The third one. The super hero that is flawed, but still a hero. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	richardak 2009-10-18 12:35 am UTC (link)
	That's every version prior to Arena. And while I certainly agree with you wholeheartedly, I also don't want them to lose sight of the things about the Bates/Weisman version that made the character uniquely interesting. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-16 08:52 am UTC (link)
	So where is this set? Is it in Skartaris? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wizardru 2009-10-16 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	I don't believe it's Skartaris. I think it's some new 'magic world' that they've invented for the Superman titles. If I follow the plot so far, what's happening is that General Sam Lane, in his crusade to wipe out all of the Kryptonians, has made a deal with an evil Witch Queen from this magic world...in return for the use of Captain Atom as an anti-magic WMD. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-16 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. That's weird. You'd think, given that DC has a genuine swords-and-sorcery setup easily at hand, they'd take advantage of it a bit more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daningram
2009-10-17 01:27 am UTC (link)

I wonder what writer thought "Hey, we've got a conflict spearheaded by General Lane, General Zod, Lex Luthor, Superman, Brainiac plus a few dozen B-listers. You know what we need? A completely new magical realm that we have to introduce, flesh out and develop before everything comes to a boil!"

...how do Superman readers and writers keep track of things without a score card?

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	aegof.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 05:52 am UTC (link)
	These are superhero comics. Readers are the score cards. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	squirle 2009-10-16 09:39 am UTC (link)
	Hey, the captain now has blue boots instead of red ones! Now he looks slightly less like someone who's naked except for his socks (and gloves)! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	richardak 2009-10-17 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	He's always had blue boots, at least the post-Crisis version of the character. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	squirle 2009-10-17 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	I only really know him from the JLU cartoons. And I distinctly remember him in his red socks there ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	richardak 2009-10-18 12:37 am UTC (link)
	That was a radically different version of the character than the one from the comics. Truth be known, the JLU version seemed, to me at least, more like the LoSH character Wildfire than like the comic-book version of Captain Atom. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	goblinthebamf 2009-10-16 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	YES (Reply to this)

	comicoz 2009-10-16 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	Natasha was on assignment? Never saw that coming. This second feature of Cpt Atom makes a bit more sense than the first one at least. I was left scratching my head after that one. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-10-16 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	Dear Danel: Come back to Earth-Prime--DeBarge is forming a reunion tour! (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-10-16 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	I keep seeing these segments and wondering if anyone is paying attention to them. (Reply to this)

	lanternicity 2009-10-16 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Nuhuh"? That seems very juvenile, Captain. (Reply to this)

	silverzeo 2009-10-16 10:53 pm UTC (link)
	Is the USA army the biggest jerks in comics, or has there been other countries who were bigger? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-16 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	In the Marvel U, there's Canada. We're totally evil. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	uadlika 2009-10-17 12:05 am UTC (link)
	muahaha (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-10-17 03:09 am UTC (link)
	I bet this is where Jimmy ended up. (Reply to this)