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Captain Atom, Cyborg, Dawnstar, Equinox, Gabriel A. Eltaeb, Grodd, Jed Dougherty, Jeff Lemire, Killer Frost, Martian Manhunter, Mechaneer, Mike McKone, Mongul, New 52 Captain Atom, Stormguard, Taylor Esposito, The Flash, Vostok, Wildfire
“HomeWorld Part 2 of 2”
- Writer: Jeff Lemire
- Pencils & Inks: Jed Dougherty
- Colors: Gabriel A. Eltaeb
- Letters: Taylor Esposito
- Cover Art: Gabriel A. Eltaeb & Mike McKone
In the interest of remaining spoiler-free (and because I still haven’t caught up on Futures End), I’m just going to be posting some images from the book for now. Captain Atom is still out there and still doing the super hero thing (or possibly the super villain thing, depending on your perspective). I like Jed Dougherty’s Captain Atom, but I’m not super crazy about his Captain Adam. Weird, I know.
The New 52 Captain Atom (at his most Dr. Manhattan-like) leaves the DCU (again) in a blaze of glory. We thought he had died in the pages of The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man, but five years down the road he’s back in Futures End and not taking any crap.
Unable to best his foes (and proving he has lost touch with his own humanity), Cap decides his only option is to destroy himself.
Equinox (or is it Martian Manhunter?) stops Cap in his tracks and saves the day. She (he?) sets Nathaniel Adam free.
It was Martian Manhunter, of course, using his telepathic powers to give Captain Atom inner peace. This may be (at last) the end of the New 52 Captain Atom. The upcoming Convergence series may make the New 52 Captain Atom a thing that never even existed. Time will tell.
Splitting Atoms 
Uggg… It’s the Star Trek : Next Generation case of Professor Moriarty all over again. Take a villian give them an alternate world to be happy in and out of your way. How long do you think that will last? Then there is the Golden era Superman, Superboy Prime, and Alexander Luther when they stepped off into a alternate world at the end of the Crisis on Infinite Earths only to return in Infinite Crisis.
Sigh… the new Captain Atom is awesome. Loved his series, that was a FUN read, but they have no idea what to do with such a powerful character now (since he is obviously more like Dr. Manhattan now and more powerful than Superman) so they simply “File him away”.
Convenient DC. Really convenient and so the DC of lately.
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I gave it a read and was surprised of how big of a presence Cap was in this storyline. Still, it shows that no one at DC knows what to do with him. I fear that he’ll drift of into obscurity as he did in the old continuity. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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