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Agents of Atlas

Cowboy Scientist

02:45 / 06.08.06

Any of you is reading this mini? It has a lot of cool stuff, including, but not limited to:

-A talking gorila shooting with two guns on his hands and two guns on his feet.
-SHIELD's Helicarrier vs. Uranian UFO
-Fu Manchu look alike kidnaps President Eisenhower

20:22 / 06.08.06

I enjoyed the set-up and I'm kind of curious to see where it goes. I'm hoping they can keep the tone of this first issue - I liked M-11 the best: the living robot that's treated like an automated door smasher.

By the way, did any of this feel very DC to anyone else? There's something very Silver Age DC in the tone, at least I thought so.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:46 / 06.08.06

Loved this. The artist is tops, his Marvel Boy is so cute! But Gorilla-Man stole the show. I enjoyed the brief cameos by Namora and Jann of the Jungle -- is Namora going to figure into this more prominently? And how does this relate to them most definitely *not* being the Avengers, according to Avengers Forever?

00:32 / 07.08.06

Thought this was OUTSTANDINGLY fun & entertaining. One of the best books Marvel has put out in ages and ages, IMHO. If you love GA/SA wackiness, spies, robots, talking gorillas, yellow perils and amnesia/enigma plots, the buy this now. You will almost certainly be pleasantly surprises. And if you are not I will buy you a beer (caveat: I live in LA). (*)

(*) Offer open for a limited time of uncertain parameters. No relatives or employees of Furioso can enter the Atlas-Beer Swilling Sweepstakes.

04:31 / 07.08.06

I was actually approached to draw this, but it sadly didn't work with my schedule.

I haven't read it yet but what I've seen looks great!

12:07 / 07.08.06

As I understand it, the team existed. AF merely erased the timeline where they became Avengers.

Fan spec has the team renamed "the G-Men"

Cowboy Scientist

12:53 / 07.08.06

I was actually approached to draw this, but it sadly didn't work with my schedule.

I haven't read it yet but what I've seen looks great!

Ooo! That's a shame. It would have looked awesome. Don't get me wrong, the artist they put is alright, but...

20:53 / 08.08.06

Right, so I decided to buy this. And apparently, the shop I went in today never bothered to stock it. Fie upon them.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

16:25 / 08.09.06

I need to go back and reread #1, but other than the "resurrection" of Jimmy Woo, I'm still not exactly clear on what the "G-Men" are getting back together to do. Because other than a clear lack of women in the cast, I wasn't sure why exactly they ran off to find Venus. They're looking into the Atlas Foundation because of what happened with Jimmy, yeah, but that'd better be more interesting than "Yellow Claw's alive! And still a racist stereotype! And he's running Atlas!"

Maybe it's Uranians.

Anyone else notice that they've conveniently gotten rid of the 3-D Man? Even from the flashback? I'm not sure what his current status is, though.

Oh, for a black character who wasn't from Wakanda.

So far, I'm enjoying me some Gorilla-Man and some Marvel Boy. #2 was solid - nice flashback to set up Marvel Boy, the origin of Gorilla Man in greater detail, and I like Bob Reynolds having transformed mentally into more of a Uranian than a human. His ship was cute, although the "alien bathrooms" gag has been done before, I'm pretty sure.

18:21 / 08.09.06

I think my only real problem with the book is the hoops they are jumping through to bring back the characters. At least two of them died on panel.

02:09 / 09.09.06

The series is still lotsa fun. Hope Parker can bring this sensibility to other MU projects (or an ATLAS ongoing). I hear his Marvel Adventures: The Avengers series is good.