REVIEW: THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #1

It was easier to form an emotional attachment to the Human Centipede. Nathaniel Adams has a meltdown, the Justice League come across as incompetent dicks and the meat of the story is a flashback for no real reason I could fathom.

The dialogue is delivered in slabs of dreary exposition about quantum states and fevers and I swear to god the only likable character in this is a doctor who we probably will never see again.

The art is fine, standard superhero fare. Captain Atom could have done with something a bit more techy and experimental to set it apart from every other comic on the shelf. The story telling is a bit weird in places to, watching Superman push someone by their feet was a throw back to the fifties.

For a first issue it had no impact whatsoever, there was some ham-fisted characterization smeared with stereotyping and all of it was trod into old ground.

This will end in about eight issues.

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Written by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman
Art by Will Conrad, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte
Published by DC Comics