So with The Atom being on television for a while now and apparently the second Atom-Ryan Choi-being on a new Justice League later this year, I thought it would be a good time to whip out a pitch for the character I've had for a while. So, if you like small men-ladies ;D-here's my Pitch-It for "The Atom" comic book series!
First, some background. Similar to The Flash and Green Lantern, the Silver Age version of The Atom began as an updated version of a Golden Age hero of the same name. This new Atom-Ray Palmer-was a physicist professor in Ivy Town who had used a shard of a White Dwarf Star to fashion a lens that could be used to shrink objects. After much work on the lens, Palmer developed a special belt and suit that would allow him to shrink himself to be as small as an Atom! I would go on to tell you all the awesome stuff The Atom can do by being that small, but A. "May You Shrink in Peace" was a good explanation of the character you can search up here and B. I will eventually do a One Dozen Facts post about The Atom. Alongside Hawkman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary, The Atom was one of the first characters added onto The Justice League of America by the original seven founders and has been one of DC Comic's best known B-Listers ever since. And FYI, I'll get to Hawkman eventually. The Atom has had various adventures and much importance in the DCU, so how could I make the character interesting in a new way? Check it out.
So there are a lot of stories where The Atom is injected into somebody's body to help them with some sort of medical problem. Palmer tried to detach The Blue Beetle's scarab from the inside of Jaime Reyes' back, Ryan Choi saved The Joker from a brain spasm, Palmer and Superman went inside Batman's body and defeated a colony of parasites. The list goes on, but I've always found those stories to be the most interesting. When you think about it, the inside of the human body is an entirely different world. Just like the deep oceans and far cosmos, the human body is a frontier explored, but hardly ever used in comic books as a place where stuff happens. So what if we had a new Atom book which was basically a medical exploration book? Although, I wouldn't want to use Ray or Ryan for this story as they are both doctors of science and not medicine or surgery. Instead we could bring back some classic DC characters nobody knows about called The Challengers of The Unknown! The Challengers were a team of extraordinary men who adventured in the realms of science-fiction, paranormal occurrences and many other fantastical locations. For this Pitch I'll be using a small alteration of the team.
The story is centered around Professor Walter Haley who was close friends with Ray Palmer. So close that he assisted Palmer in studying shrinking technology. When Palmer perfected his technology he refused to share it with anyone due to his paranoia about government involvement, this means Haley felt cheated. After years of studying Palmer's work, Haley-in his early 50's-created a shrinking device the size of a phone-booth. However, the device projected so much shrinking energy that it would make one person too small to exist in the same dimension we inhabit. So he would need at least three more people to share the shrinking effects with, as the division of that energy would shrink them all to a more operational size. Haley recruits Kyle Morgan, a former military pilot who was fired for fornicating with his superior officer. Kyle himself blames Hal Jordan for making that kind of thing seem okay. When he hears Haley is hiring "assistants", former heavyweight boxer and current Ivy Town College janitor Leslie Davis volunteers. Leslie and Haley have a work-based friendship with one another and both feel past their prime, so Haley decides to include him. Also Leslie is Black in this version. The final member was going to be astronaut celebrity Matthew Ryan, but two days before their first mission Matthew suffers a crippling injury and his daughter Red Ryan takes his place. Red Ryan is a teenaged, Disney Channel celebrity who isn't a great actor, but gets along by her father's reputation. With his team tossed together, Haley dubs them "Team Atom" in honor (and/or ridicule) of his former friend.
Haley's problem with Ray Palmer was that he never used his technology to help people in the traditional way. Rather than curing cancer or enhancing the human immune system he opted to dress up as a superhero. So, Team Atom don suits, use their "Atom Box" to shrink down, then they are injected via syringe by a doctor into a patient. Their adventures include fighting off biological diseases, parasites, and removing viruses and shrapnel from the inside. Performing neural operations, heart repairs, bone operations, and more medical-based problems. Take your basic hospital drama TV show and put four superhero doctors inside the patient of the week. The overarching story threads include Ray Palmer suing Haley, Red Ryan dealing with negative media attention, and the team's main villain, Corinna Stark. Corinna is a scientist who opposes Haley's work because it is untested and inhumane. She goes on to hound Haley for the technology so that hospitals all over the planet could use it, but Haley begins to understand why Ray didn't want to share the technology as it could be used as a weapon.
It just always bothered me that if there existed a guy who could shrink small enough to travel inside the human body, why would he not be a Doctor? Why would he not give that equipment to trained professionals who can cure people from the inside? Surgeons have to cut people open and Doctors have to prescribe drugs, when all you need is someone who knows what they're doing and has the means to do it without causing any external damage. The drama and intrigue of a story like this has potential. Hell, if DC never does it you know I sure as heck will! Now that I got that idea out there, I'm going to go seclude myself until I can figure out how to make Hawkman cool.
Thanks for reading!
Would you read this Atom story? Comment below!
So there are a lot of stories where The Atom is injected into somebody's body to help them with some sort of medical problem. Palmer tried to detach The Blue Beetle's scarab from the inside of Jaime Reyes' back, Ryan Choi saved The Joker from a brain spasm, Palmer and Superman went inside Batman's body and defeated a colony of parasites. The list goes on, but I've always found those stories to be the most interesting. When you think about it, the inside of the human body is an entirely different world. Just like the deep oceans and far cosmos, the human body is a frontier explored, but hardly ever used in comic books as a place where stuff happens. So what if we had a new Atom book which was basically a medical exploration book? Although, I wouldn't want to use Ray or Ryan for this story as they are both doctors of science and not medicine or surgery. Instead we could bring back some classic DC characters nobody knows about called The Challengers of The Unknown! The Challengers were a team of extraordinary men who adventured in the realms of science-fiction, paranormal occurrences and many other fantastical locations. For this Pitch I'll be using a small alteration of the team.
The story is centered around Professor Walter Haley who was close friends with Ray Palmer. So close that he assisted Palmer in studying shrinking technology. When Palmer perfected his technology he refused to share it with anyone due to his paranoia about government involvement, this means Haley felt cheated. After years of studying Palmer's work, Haley-in his early 50's-created a shrinking device the size of a phone-booth. However, the device projected so much shrinking energy that it would make one person too small to exist in the same dimension we inhabit. So he would need at least three more people to share the shrinking effects with, as the division of that energy would shrink them all to a more operational size. Haley recruits Kyle Morgan, a former military pilot who was fired for fornicating with his superior officer. Kyle himself blames Hal Jordan for making that kind of thing seem okay. When he hears Haley is hiring "assistants", former heavyweight boxer and current Ivy Town College janitor Leslie Davis volunteers. Leslie and Haley have a work-based friendship with one another and both feel past their prime, so Haley decides to include him. Also Leslie is Black in this version. The final member was going to be astronaut celebrity Matthew Ryan, but two days before their first mission Matthew suffers a crippling injury and his daughter Red Ryan takes his place. Red Ryan is a teenaged, Disney Channel celebrity who isn't a great actor, but gets along by her father's reputation. With his team tossed together, Haley dubs them "Team Atom" in honor (and/or ridicule) of his former friend.
Haley's problem with Ray Palmer was that he never used his technology to help people in the traditional way. Rather than curing cancer or enhancing the human immune system he opted to dress up as a superhero. So, Team Atom don suits, use their "Atom Box" to shrink down, then they are injected via syringe by a doctor into a patient. Their adventures include fighting off biological diseases, parasites, and removing viruses and shrapnel from the inside. Performing neural operations, heart repairs, bone operations, and more medical-based problems. Take your basic hospital drama TV show and put four superhero doctors inside the patient of the week. The overarching story threads include Ray Palmer suing Haley, Red Ryan dealing with negative media attention, and the team's main villain, Corinna Stark. Corinna is a scientist who opposes Haley's work because it is untested and inhumane. She goes on to hound Haley for the technology so that hospitals all over the planet could use it, but Haley begins to understand why Ray didn't want to share the technology as it could be used as a weapon.
It just always bothered me that if there existed a guy who could shrink small enough to travel inside the human body, why would he not be a Doctor? Why would he not give that equipment to trained professionals who can cure people from the inside? Surgeons have to cut people open and Doctors have to prescribe drugs, when all you need is someone who knows what they're doing and has the means to do it without causing any external damage. The drama and intrigue of a story like this has potential. Hell, if DC never does it you know I sure as heck will! Now that I got that idea out there, I'm going to go seclude myself until I can figure out how to make Hawkman cool.
Thanks for reading!
Would you read this Atom story? Comment below!
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