ADVENTURE COMICS # 516 Review

RATING 2 out of 5

SPOILERS FOR THE STORIES

Feature story>
Superboy and the LEGION of super-Heroes: The early years:
Brande Speaks
This is a re-telling of how R J Brande became R J Brande.  Mostly captions by R J Brande. I didn't know that much about R J, now I know more then I wanted. Yawn...
It is... a complete story in this one issue.
Co Feature>
The Atom: Nucleus: Part 1 
 Title: Splitting the Atom
This is a continuation from The Atom: Brightest Day special(One shot, ah ha hahahahah)  featuring Ray Palmer as The Atom. Only 8 pages.

Mostly Captions.... again.  The color of the captions makes it hard to read.  The Atom's father is in the hospital, without much hope of recovery. He knows that someone is after him, and he finds the guy that was hired to do the planning, "The Calculator." (This contradicts what happened in the Batgirl 12 where Calculator was put out of the way  for awhile.) It has a cliff hanger continuation into the next Adventure Comics #517, but I'm not on the edge of my seat.  It was a meh... kind of a story. Maybe if there were more pages to give more story to it,  or maybe I'm just tired of seeing Calculator... but I'm not interested in the story.



Adventure Comics #516 Credits:

Feature Title: BRANDE SPEAKS
Writer: Paul Levitz
Penciller: Kevin Sharpe
Inker: Marlo Alquiza
Letterer: Travis lanham
Colorist :Blond
Cover : Scott Clark and David Beaty


Co-Feature: The Atom: Nucleus  part 1 Splitting the Atom
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: John Del
Letterer: Sal Cipriano
Colorist: Pete Pantazis

BRIGHTEST DAY: THE ATOM SPECIAL 2010 Review

RATING 2.5 out of 5

Why does this issue have the Brightest Day banner? Why is called a One Shot? Why... oh why... does this issue have "Special" in the  title? This story continues in Adventure comics #516 as a.... C0-Feature, if it wasn't just a co-feature, I wouldn't buy AC 516 after reading this issue.

Full Review:

This story gets mired down in the past history of how Ray Palmer became the Atom, and not even creatively told. It has lots of captions(in a color blend that is hard to focus on).

It did show Ray Palmer being a better fighter then Ryan Choi.  If Ryan had fought like Ray,  Deathstoke (and company) wouldn't have touched him. I agree with other posters that it would have been nice if Ray had at least acknowledge Ryan's death, but who knows where in the time line this issue is supposedly happening.

I'm  having trouble with DC putting the Brightest Day banner on this issue, because Ray wasn't resurrected. He never died. He became a Indigo tribesman, but that was not mentioned or even hinted at in this issue.


Anyway... in this issue The Atom finds a mystery about his uncle, who he had idolized as a child, and thought was dead. 


BRIGHTEST DAY: THE ATOM SPECIAL
Writter: Jeff Lemire
Penciller: mahmud Asrar
Inker: John Dell
Colorist: Pete Pantazis
Letterer: Sal Cipriano
Cover: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson