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Unfortunately, after such superhero comic heights, Sword of the Atom goes out with a dull whimper. Gil Kane didn’t come back for this one, with Pat Broderick handling the art instead. Broderick can handle the icky elements of Strnad’s script, but he’s missing all the wonder Kane brought to the series. Actually, maybe there’s no […]

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And here now, so far, is the finest of Sword of the Atom. Strnad gets the main cast through a contrivance–a clumsy mover turned on Ray Palmer’s shrinking ray and zapped Jean, so she and her new husband are off to the Amazon looking for help. Of course, the Atom hasn’t been slacking off in […]

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Sword of the Atom was a strange limited series, ably mixing unlikely genres, but the first special is even more different. Essentially an epilogue to the limited series–the majority of the comic is spent retelling the limited series while introducing different perspectives on the events–it’s a mature comic book about divorce and friendship and love. […]

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I tracked down and read Sword of the Atom because DC’s got a trade coming out in August and I didn’t want to order it and get a piece of crap. Even though the second issue goes way too far with its Marvel-style recap (you know, when there’s a one or two page recap of […]

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