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    Captain Atom #3

    Captain Atom » Captain Atom #3 - Divine Intervention released by DC Comics on January 2012.

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    3.5 stars

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    The Peaceful Core of the Mushroom Cloud 0

    The Good: I gotta say, that's a fantastic cover. Bold and interesting, well balanced, and frankly, it's Artgem. But actually one of the more dynamic Artgem covers. Williams' art is improving. Sometimes the characters look a little too surreal, but the backgrounds look much better. Captain Atom's 'guardian angel' approach to superheroing is actually really interesting. It's something fairly unique, and the way its demonstrated as visually stunning.Oh man, the way that the Flash is introduced in t...

    2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

    I think the title is a request... 5

    Art - The art for this book is below average. The anatomy shifts from alright to stylized, to just bad and wrong. One could put that aside, but is then painted over by someone who wants to be more "fancy" than quality with the use of pastels that like the lines go from alright to rushed and sloppy. This topped with the fact he combines it with digital rendering in parts shows a really confused art style that just looks ugly.Story - The basic story is that Atom save people without them knowing fr...

    0 out of 2 found this review helpful.

    Making water 1

    This issue either deliberately or accidentally looks at some deeper philosophical concepts.  Captain Atom, ever since healing the boy with cancer in the previous issue, is traveling around the world in the blink of an eye saving people (though only depicted in the USA.)   This sort of touches on the degree of scale which heroes are responsible to, like does helping one person equal stopping a villain that might harm thousands.  Despite this lead in though not very much is done with it as when he...

    5 out of 6 found this review helpful.

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