The Atoms

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[Trey Strain]

Al would be the oddball. And it seems that those guys are coming to this Earth. which makes him doubly unusual.

[Atlanta96]

We need to get DC thinking about The Atoms, a Charlton team title called Pax Americana and a Flash team title called Speed Force.

All great ideas IMO, but I wonder if they have a chance of actually happening. Obviously DC has plans for future series after the initial Rebirth books have been going for a while, but considering the disconnect they have with their fans, who knows if they actually care about any of these characters, even though we do.

[TheYoungWolf]

Interesting how you say all this despite your avatar being one of the whiter characters in recent fantasy. Seriously, house Stark is the whitebread of GoT. Also, DC is risking profits by giving Simon Baz and Hessica Cruz the main GL book, and also by continuing to publish Blue Beetle and Cyborg books despite those series not being top sellers. Give them some credit.

dude robb stark is a badass. period. the north remembers. lol i just liked him on the show and have never read the books so idk sh*t about fantasy tbh. its not like im anti white. im actually a person who wants the old wally west back lol. my point was dc has these awesome minority heroes and they just kill them off for no reason or put them on the back burner to bring back old characters that people my age have never even heard of or care about. why?

[Herowatcher]

I'll take a Ray Palmer & Al Pratt Atom mini-series...zero interest in the other two.

[Atlanta96]

dude robb stark is a badass. period. the north remembers. lol i just liked him on the show and have never read the books so idk sh*t about fantasy tbh. its not like im anti white. im actually a person who wants the old wally west back lol. my point was dc has these awesome minority heroes and they just kill them off for no reason or put them on the back burner to bring back old characters that people my age have never even heard of or care about. why?

I apologize for mocking Robb Stark. He is a badass.

And I do agree with you that DC has a tendency to create new minority heroes and then stop caring about them a year later, which is frustrating. Getting back on topic, I think Ryan Choi deserves a shot at popularity alongside the previous Atoms. I also have a lot of respect for older characters like Al Pratt and especially Ray Palmer, so I wouldn't want them to be replaced by Ryan Choi. I think old and new heroes should compliment each other, which is why a series starring multiple Atoms from different generations is a good idea, IMO.

[Doctor Bifrost]

Seriously, house Stark is the whitebread of GoT.

Compared to who? The Lannisters? Or the Targaryens? Seems like there's a lot of competition for this one.

[SmokeMonster]

Yes. I've had this idea for a while.

My idea was basically Ray Palmer and a bunch of his grad students, his new team, accidentally stuck at the cellular level, essentially making the setting a fantasy world where Mitochondria and stuff like that are wild beasts trying to kill our heroes.

Maybe they're trying to rescue someone who's shrunken into hiding, be it a criminal or a friend, or a piece of macguffin technology that allows them to return to normal size.

[K. Jones]

I could dig a Ray/Ryan/Laethwyn team. I don't see Al working since he's on Earth-2 these days, and didn't have shrinking powers historically. Throw in Adam Cray as the secret weapon of the group and you've got an interesting dynamic.

My big problem is with the name. I don't think Atoms has a nice ring to it, but I don't really have anything better to suggest.

Project A.T.O.M.? The Mighty Mites? The Micronauts?

[Stingo]

What would you think about a comic starring Al Pratt and Ray Palmer?

Gads, yes! I've always thought there were many wonderful stories to be told with the Golden Age Atom...Sign me up!

[Trey Strain]

Maybe it could be "The Atomic (something or other)." I've always liked the adjective "atomic." I saw a T-shirt with Elvis on it once that said, "The Atomic Powered Singer," and I had to have that thing.

[K. Jones]

Dunno why it took me an hour, but yeah, the obvious titles are like, just pluralization.

Swords of the Atoms, or Power of the Atoms, or Powers of the Atoms.

[Trey Strain]

Another word that has punch is "order."

Yeah. The Atomic Order. That'll fly.

[Trey Strain]

Something else. They should be referred to by their actual names. Ray, Al, etc. When someone outside the group refers to then, he can call them the Atoms or the Atomic Order.

[El_Gato]

A comic with Ray Palmer, Ryan Choi and Rhonda Pineda would be ideal!