The Atom (Ray Palmer) Appreciation Thread

[thetrellan]

HA! I like that quote.

I think they could do a really interesting Sword of the Atom like story with Ray protecting the microverse.

Sword of the Atom was about Ray being stuck at insect size, and discovering a whole society living at that size in some yard. It was Honey I Shrunk the Kids crossed with John Carter of Mars. I wouldn't mind revisiting it, but only if the art was really nice. At least as good as Ivan Reis, who does a pretty good Kane impression. Not that he was intentionally going for that. But some of his GL and Aquaman had that look.

[Elmo]

Found a couple more Atom cartoons

Ray fights aliens:



Ray fights an evil scientist and his plants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh1ggCM2QGE

[liwanag]

Found a couple more Atom cartoons

Ray fights aliens:



Ray fights an evil scientist and his plants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh1ggCM2QGE

for a cartoon done in 1967, i'm really impressed.

[MajorHoy]

from History of the DC Universe - Book 2 (1986)

[Jekyll]

Another favorite of mine from DC that is criminally underused.

[byrd156]

Another favorite of mine from DC that is criminally underused.

I really wish Ray had an ongoing.

[liwanag]

hey, i forgot about this appreciation thread.

which is timely i guess now that the atom is set to show up in hawkman...

[DrNewGod]

To me, as originally written, The Silver-Age Atom was a thinking readers' character.

He didn't just bop bad guys, a lot of the action centered around how reducing or recovering his weight could be tactically deployed. Little tricks like reacting to an opponent grabbing him by suddenly resuming his full 180 lbs weight, or ricocheting from target to target, made for interesting and different action narratives.

[MajorHoy]

To me, as originally written, The Silver-Age Atom was a thinking readers' character.

He didn't just bop bad guys, a lot of the action centered around how reducing or recovering his weight could be tactically deployed. Little tricks like reacting to an opponent grabbing him by suddenly resuming his full 180 lbs weight, or ricocheting from target to target, made for interesting and different action narratives.

I loved how he use to be able to travel between places over phone lines, but I guess the growth of cellphones and a major reduction in old-fashioned landlines has sort of eliminated that one.

[thetrellan]

Found a couple more Atom cartoons

Ray fights aliens:



Ray fights an evil scientist and his plants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh1ggCM2QGE

"That's hard to tell without knowing where it came from." Space, dude. meteorites come from space. Get a better script.

[DrNewGod]

I loved how he use to be able to travel between places over phone lines, but I guess the growth of cellphones and a major reduction in old-fashioned landlines has sort of eliminated that one.

Yeah, that one was a bit of a leap even back then. However, if he can ride the electrical impulses traveling between phones over wires, there's no reason he can't do the same over the signals between cellphones. For that matter, if he knows a bad guy's Skype address, there's no reason can't come blasting at them right out of their computer screens!

(I now REALLY want to see a great artist draw a cover with that!)

[liwanag]

To me, as originally written, The Silver-Age Atom was a thinking readers' character.

He didn't just bop bad guys, a lot of the action centered around how reducing or recovering his weight could be tactically deployed. Little tricks like reacting to an opponent grabbing him by suddenly resuming his full 180 lbs weight, or ricocheting from target to target, made for interesting and different action narratives.

And considering that the Atom is one of DCU's top scientist... I'd love to see Grant Morrison take a shot in writing Dr. Ray Palmer's adventures.

[MajorHoy]

[liwanag]

man, i wish dc would make another who's who series.

[MajorHoy]

man, i wish dc would make another who's who series.

Well, until they settle on what is and what isn't "canon", don't expect one anytime soon.

Oh, and they did do some "Who's Who" entries during the New52 when they had those #0 issues in 2012.