The Atom: Rebirth #1

The Atom: Rebirth #1

The Atom introduces DC’s second Asian superhero title of the Rebirth era. Say hello to Lun Choi A.K.A. The Atom although the name he’s chosen for easing into United States society is Ryan. In his first semester he is already fluent in all of the lecture material before even attending the lectures having listened to all of his professors’ lectures and read them online. Flash forward 12 months and Ryan is acting as a research assistant to one of his physics lecturers.

It’s Ryan’s sophomore year and already he’s published and patented work so he’s a bit of a nerd.  

Genius.

Sorry, I meant genius.

Professor Palmer recognises Ryan as someone he can trust and, after examining his reasons for wanting to study science, reveals to him his identity as the Atom. At first Ryan is The Atom’s aide, coordinating his efforts from a command centre. Fast forward another 12 months now (Junior Year) and The Atom (Professor Palmer) has sent Ryan a message that he’s shrunk smaller than atoms and discovered the Microverse. He tells Ryan that he’s left him the equipment to become another...Atom and that he needs his help to save the nanostructure of the temporal time-line.

As a story it flows nice and will become a good adventure type title if it continues in this vein. Will it make the pull-list? Not for me, there’s just too much available on the market in terms of well-written books right now but this character might gel well for some people and #1’s are always worth a pull.

The Atom: Rebirth #1 is out this week.