Atlas (story arc)
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Publication date | June 2008 - |
| Number of issues | 4 (Superman (comic book)Superman #677-680 ) |
| Main character(s) | Superman Atlas |
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| Writer(s) | James Robinson |
| Artist(s) | Renato Guedes José Wilson Magalháes |
Atlas is the name to a upcoming comic book story arc from DC Comics by writer Jams Robinson and artist Renato Guedes and José Wilson Magalháes, featuring Superman. This is Robinson's first story arc on Superman as he became the ongoing writer on the Superman title after Kurt Busiek's departure. This, as well as Geoff Johns's Brainiac arc on Action Comics, would lead to their planned "link" on both Action Comics and Superman, as part of their plans for Superman and his cast of characters for and beyond 2008.
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[edit] Background
James Robinson was named as the new Superman writer on February 8th, 2008.[1] In many of his interviews approaching the start of his run, he pointed that he always wanted to work on the character of Superman, and also writer Geoff Johns, comparing him and himself as Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen. In regards to his plans on the book, starting with Atlas, he made a point that every reader or even so-to-be-reader will care about every major character in the Superman universe (such as Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl, etc). Because he had done work on Batman, with both the Detective Comics and Batman books for the Face the Face storyline, he was once asked if his and Johns' work on the two Superman books would be the same, he was quick to reply that it wasn't, but better than that.[2]
Robinson believes he has a connection to Superman, as he was "...a working class British guy who came to America and America has given me everything", similar to the immigrant story that Superman's creation was based upon. But in regards to the choice of having Atlas as the villain for his opening arc, it was do to his love for "all things Kirby. But the other main reason had to do with Superman's Rogues Gallery as he felt that "he has guys that can beat him punch for punch; fist for fist, Doomsday is obviously the prime example. But they all lack any sense of humanity. Atlas is going to have humanity. The way I like to look at him is like in the Marvel Universe, Namor is a hero but he really skates the fine line between being a hero and a villain, but he stays on the side of the hero. Atlas, skates that line between hero and villain but he ultimately always falls on the villain side." He continued to say that Atlas will become a major player in the Superman mythos moving forward and there will be some real twists to the character. [3]
[edit] The plan linking together Action-Superman-Supergirl
In the months before Geoff Johns started his Brainiac arc, and James Robinson started his run with the Atlas arc on Superman, both Johns and Robinson had made clear their plans for the Superman and Superman-related titles following those arcs for the rest of 2008 onto the end of 2010. The plan is to hook up the three Super-books (Action Comics, Superman, and Supergirl) so they could cross over more fluidly on a regular basis, making them like a bi-weekly series. According to Johns, the plan will made readers want to get to get the titles because they would feel that you HAVE to read, that you WANT to read.[4] Robinson also added that even though he nor Johns would not be writing Supergirl, they still made it clear that they were still the advisor's to the book's current ongoing writer: Kelly Puckett.[5]
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