Comments on: Firestorm in Captain Atom #2 (April 1987)

By: outburst

outburst — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:50:15 +0000

I’m sure there are a fair number of people who don’t care for Pat Broderick’s work. Personally, he worked on two significant titles for me in the day: Firestorm and Alpha Flight (Eh, I’m Canadian!).
Like him or not, I think most would have to admit that he has a style that is easily identifiable as his own. You could throw anything of his in front of me and I could identify it instantly. Not sure I could say that for many other artists.
His work has flaws, but there are also some real nice things about it too. I liked his rendition of Firestorm and he owns the image in my head of a few characters, like Black Bison, Hyena, early Firehawk, and yes, Captain Atom.

By: firestormfan89

firestormfan89 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:49:05 +0000

@Royal Octopus: lol

I like that Blue Beetle has the weird feeling he’s met Capt Atom somewhere before. But I think he means that Nite Owl has met Dr. Manhattan. I get so confused trying to keep all these different continuities straight.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:20:26 +0000

I love that these super-heroes had nothing better to do than spend time thinking about some random new super-hero they’d never met like he was the new girl in class. “Gee, how does his hair sway like that through metal skin. And both are equally shiny! How dreamy…” It’s also funny that Batman was duped like that.

By: Royal Octopus

Royal Octopus — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:32:07 +0000

Villain or not I question ‘Today’s Life’ magazine’s judgement of having a picture of a woman getting punched in the face on the cover. No wonder the Daily Planet is the made-up news source of choice in the DCU.