Captain Atom

And for certain characters like Batman and Superman who have multiple books, he's like, I got to do it a couple of times, I guess.

But when you're reading it, the guy who it clearly is is a fellow named Captain Atom.

It's quite clearly Captain Atom.

It is like one of these stories where it's like, okay, so it's going to be Captain Atom.

And you feel pretty good about it, frankly, because Captain Atom is one of these characters who's very powerful but has never had a tremendous number of great stories.

He's a character that DC bought and brought into their universe but was not really part of their universe.

He's the character that Dr. Manhattan's based on.

Him and Firestorm, there's one thing you can be sure of.

But I did really enjoy this.

I like the Sam Lane version of Captain Atom.

But most importantly – I love the Jimmy Olsen moment in this issue and my favorite part of the issue was seeing Jor-El, Jordan as he's called by Ma Kent, go back to Smallville and talk to Ma Kent.

It's such a different dynamic having Jor-El be the one that survived Krypton and still was found by the Kents but – It's not the same relationship, right, that Kal-El had because Kal-El being raised by Ma and Pa Kent as a small child and not even knowing that he was not their biological son at first as opposed to an adult Jor-El landing in Smallville and having Ma and Pa Kent as confidants and just a different dynamic.

Unfortunately, he says it wrong, despite supposedly knowing magic.

He's he's he's.

says it wrong, it does the wrong kind of spell, and it unfortunately enlarges Captain Atom, and the issue ends with Superman, the father of tomorrow, trying to get Sam Lane, Captain Atom, off the Earth, because if he explodes...

it could very well destroy the entire planet.

And I'm like, sure, we'll go with that.

Why not? And on page 12, I was really getting echoes of Steve Ditko's Captain Atom issues.

Are you seeing that at all?

Let's see.

Page 12.

Steve Ditko's Captain Atom issues.

I love Steve Ditko's Captain Atom.

It's a bizarre book.

[laughs] 'Cause the question is basically Rorschach.

Captain Atom is, uh, Dr. Manhattan.

Um...

Yeah.

Uh, Shannon, I wanna get your, uh, thoughts on this.

La- a, a rumor is circulating that several other DC Comic characters will be mentioned or possibly appear in this show, including Captain Atom.

Nexus Punch News reported the Captain Atom will appear in season two of Creature Commandos, so we'll see if he shows up.

But there's another one that just came over the wire here on Twitter just, uh, about 30 minutes ago.

Um, apparently Challengers' Mike Faist, uh, has been cast in an undisclosed role in The People v. Gorilla Grodd.

Uh, the Hall of Justice confirmed that their mentor, Max Mercury, was a publicly known superhero.

So although we might not be getting The Flash in The People v. Gorilla Grodd, we may get something connected to The Flash universe that may lead us into this.

So what are your thoughts on Mike Faist joining the situation? What do you think about Captain Atom possibly showing up? Where do you think this is all gonna happen, and Jay Garrick possibly being in Man of Tomorrow?

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this era, uh, there was also, uh, I, I just know there's another, k- DC comic of this era called Captain Atom, which is, you know-

Mm-hmm

... about Nathaniel Adam, who was a guy who was a actual captain in the Air Force who was then, um, experimented on, and he got that metal shell, and he got blasted in the future.

Okay, tell me more

... part of Dr. Manhattan, Dr. Manhattan obviously based on Captain Atom.

We've mentioned him on the show-

Mm-hmm

Brought Mr.

A, which is like the, the Rorschach equivalent.

Got some Captain Atom here and some Blue Beetle also.

These Captain Atoms, they're more of a six-panel...