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Atomika: God is Red

23:15 / 02.07.05

From the website:
"God is Red is set in an alternate universe. Atomika is the God of the twentieth century. The story begins in the Soviet Union in 1934. All religion has been deemed counter productive to the state and outlawed. Technology has become god.

Mother Russia's son is called Atomika. His father is the iron within the earth. The iron that man has used to forge his technology and become the dominant species.

With America (Liberty) conquered, Russia has tapped the earth's core to become the center of the planet's only existing source of energy. The sky is dead and the violence of the sun has been tamed by Atomika. Much of the planet has become an industrial wasteland. The planet has evolved into a machine feeding the furnaces of its industry"

Previews here

http://comics.ign.com/articles/594/594493p1.html
http://comics.ign.com/articles/599/599081p1.html
http://comics.ign.com/articles/618/618423p1.html

Next to the Goon, this comic has already become my favorite. Especially the detailed artwork that goes into each panel and the storyline is very unique.

Spyder Todd 2008

05:54 / 07.07.05

I honestly didn't think anyone else was reading this. It's... it's really fucking cool. I have no idea where they're going with it. And I don't see howw this artist's work would ever work in any other book. But it's so fucking cool. This has been the first book I read everytime I've been in the shop and a new issue is out (unless 7 Soliders is out the same day. Then I read this second). I really like this book, for reasons I don't know. I can't really describe it, except to say it's cool.

16:44 / 08.07.05

How would you describe the style and tone of this? I'm curious to check it out now...

18:34 / 08.07.05

This is a really odd book. It's like nothing else out at the moment. The tone is really hard to describe. I honestly can't describe it properly. It's about a new God rising in some odd Neo-Russia and establishing his dominance over it's people and outsing the old gods but the art and dialogue has an almost surreal, etherial quality to it.

I wasn't taken with the first issue but it's growing on me as I adapt to the style of the book.

The best way I can describe it is - imagine Thor decides to kill all the other Gods to set himself up as the only God in The Marvel Universe. Picture how that would work in a Marvel comic.

Atomika is nothing like that.

20:31 / 13.07.05

I really love the interior art and the covers of this series, but am not terribly impressed with the story so far (as of issue 3). Maybe I'm just missing something, but it does seem to be plodding along without focus. I'll continue to buy it because of the artwork, the architectural designs are great, but I hope things start to go somewhere in issue four.