Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
By Alex Segura
You’ve gotten a peek at a few of the upcoming co-features over the last few weeks, including MANHUNTER, RAVAGER and THE QUESTION, but there’s still one that hasn’t seen the light of day: CAPTAIN ATOM, co-written by James Robinson and Greg Rucka with art by CAFU, who you first saw in the pages of the recent VIXEN mini-series. Who is this Captain Atom? How does he fit into the DCU? We’ll let the story speak for itself, which kicks off in ACTION COMICS #879, in July.
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Tags: action comics, Cafu, captain atom, co-features, Greg Rucka, James Robinson
9 Responses to “Get a first look at the CAPTAIN ATOM co-feature”
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Cafu is DOPE!
His art on VIXEN was nothing short of sublime. Anyone who hasn’t checked out Vixen should definitely seek out the back issues.
His Captain Atom stuff looks fantastic as well.
I liked the art, I think this captain Atom back up will be good.
“Who is this Captain Atom?”
Uh, so it’s not going to be the Monarch version of Captain Atom from Countdown?
This looks awesome! Was already reading Action Comics, but this will float to the top of my read pile. Cafu’s art looks super.
This does look good. I think the co-features is a good idea to soften the blow of a price increase. Thanks, DC.
Hope it’ll be colored by Santiago Arcas.
[...] at the Source, DC Comics has announced that CAFU (the artist of Vixen: Return of the Lion) will be pencilling the Captain Atom [...]
THANK YOU. I loved the artist’s work on Vixen, so now I’m really excited to be picking up CA backup!
Its great to see an artist that can pull of the metallic nature of Captain Atom. The art is Vixen was so organic and natural so I wasn’t sure how CAFU would do on Captain Atom but I’m impressed. Now its a matter of seeing if the colorist can do the same. Even though Captain Atom is a simple design the metal skin comes off flat most times when people try it. Bart Sears was always good at Captain Atom even if weak in other areas.