Comments on: Unhappy Valentine’s Day to Plastique and Captain Atom

By: Dave Mullen

Dave Mullen — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Good article, I’m surprised anyone would care enough to do the research on this… I have a soft spot for Captain Atom and at the time this relationship was so inexplicable, bizarre and irrational I have always felt it did a great deal of damage to Captain Atom’s credibility thereafter. It was worsened by the following flirtations with Maxima.
A good superhero character has to have a couple of flaws and the idea of the hero falling for the villainess is nothing unusual. Even Captain America had his long distance romance with Diamondback, Spider-man the Black Cat, Batman has Catwoman, the difference is that all of those relationships were carefully set up beforehand and none of those villainesses were near psychotic killers. A hero falling for an infamous terrorist for no apparent reason is just about finished as a credible and admirable figure, yes Roy Harper had his relationship with Cheshire but that was never as consumated as Atom Marrying Plastique.
Atom’s weakness with women, morally bankrupt women at that, is arguably the single biggest reason he gets little respect from readers….

By: Boosterrific

Boosterrific — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:56:54 +0000

I can’t help it; all these years later, I still think of Plastique as Atom’s girl.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:03 +0000

Pardon my French-Canadian, but “Cameron” is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond. “Cameron” has never won at love – at least, nobody’s ever been in love with him. If things don’t change for him, he’s gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she’s gonna treat him like crap, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won’t respect him, ’cause you can’t respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn’t work.

By: rob!

rob! — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:12:59 +0000

This is the War and Peace of comic book blog posts.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:22:31 +0000

I veered pretty far off-concept by mocking both parties, but I think we still complemented each other well. You handled a lot of the fine details of the relationship, while I scribbled furiously in the margins. I enjoyed this project, so thanks for the idea, supplies, and ongoing inspiration! Who’d have thought “Plastique hearts Captain Atom” would be so much work? You clearly put in a lot of effort, and my end was no picnic. Now we just have to knock out two more crossovers in a week and a half, or something. Yay?

“Second-rate Justice League.” Dude, the Detroit era was second rate. This was more like a number two Justice League– Excrement Justice!

By: Martin Stein RIP

Martin Stein RIP — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:12:22 +0000

Also, is it just me, or does the cover of #8, with its “Who Watches the Watchmen” blurb, have a Silk Spectre/Dr. Manhattan thing to it? Intentional?

By: Martin Stein RIP

Martin Stein RIP — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:05:32 +0000

Bette Sans Souci? Her middle name is “without”?