All-New Atom (Book 1): My Life in Miniature | 
 enlarge | Author: Gail Simone
Creators: Eddy Barrows, John Byrne
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 655464
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1401213251
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401213251
ASIN: 1401213251
Publication Date: May 2, 2007
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Product Description
Best-selling author Gail Simone helps launch the career of anall-new hero bearing the mantle of The Atom -- a hero who shrinks in sizeto battle evil! Strange things are happening in Ivy Town. In fact, it appears that thewhole town's been experimented on for decades. Enter Ryan Choi -- the younghotshot professor filling the empty slot on Ivy University's teachingstaff...and who inadvertently fills the role as the all-new super-heroicAtom!Can Choi make a difference in a town more creepy and mysterious than anyoneever realized? And can he live up to the towering legend of hispredecessor, the original Atom, Ray Palmer?
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 Fascinating Ideas, Baffling Execution January 6, 2008
Entertainment Weekly called this book the "Best New Ongoing Comic Book of the Year." Based upon the first six issues collected here, it appears that the hype may have been a little too much for the creators to handle. The handoff of art chores between veteran John Byrne and Eddy Barrows isn't quite seemless, as it comes between issues #3 and #4 in the middle of the first story arc. The writing, by Gail Simone, is fresh and funny, but the story (about a war between science and magic in Ivy Town) is too much for just six issues where the main character and supporting cast are also introduced.
 Vastly underrated and underread December 10, 2007
A breath of fresh air. Gail Simone's wildly imaginative and inventive ALL-NEW ATOM is one of the few books on the stands that's consistently fun and original, blending Silver Age and postmodern ideas to create a comic with a hip, tongue-in-cheek vibe. Ryan Choi is part young rookie and part mad scientist, never coming across as a cipher or token minority, and he's surrounded by a nicely geeky supporting cast. Ivy Town itself is a nexus for the bizarre and the unusual, where cancer gods and sideways-speaking aliens exist alongside pilgrims and curiously cheery townsfolk. Simone blends old and new characters, alien armies, B-list supervillains, and a giant crazed naked woman.
The collection does suffer from uneven art- John Byrne's work is scratchier than normal, and is a sharp contrast to the work by Eddy Barrows later in the trade. But it's a minor quibble when the writing is this good. In an era where superhero comics are pressured to be gritty and deadly serious, it's good to see one that bucks the trend, and revels in just being fun. It's witty, snazzy, sharp, and sexy, and grab it while you can, because you can't find this sort of lunacy anywhere else.
Unfortunately, not even close to Agent X or Birds of Prey first trades August 3, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
You can read about it at other reviews, but frankly, although I love earlier comics by Gail Simone, this one is for die hard DC fans only. No humor, no intriguing plot...just a superhero book with all stars creative team which , well, almost failed...unfortunately !
 Falls short of expectations July 30, 2007
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
Ray Palmer, best known to DC Comics readers as the Atom, had good reason to go into hiding. But DC, in its tireless effort to make sure all standing heroes are instantly replaced by new, hipper versions, might have rushed a bit in getting this all new Atom onto the shelves.
"My Life in Miniature," starring Palmer's Hong Kong protege Ryan Choi, is not a very good story.
It strives to be serious -- an entire town has gone crazy, the U.S. president is a target and the world as we know it is at risk -- but it also tries to be funny with a massive and sentient cancerous mass, a 30-foot-tall naked woman, wacky scientist sidekicks, flea-sized invaders who live on dogs and alien attackers whose syntax comes from the Yoda School of Good English. And yet, for all its attempts at humor, I laughed only once -- when Choi, who has been swallowed by the giant naked woman (at the end of their first date), stimulates her gag reflex from within, and she vomits both Choi and the remains of her burrito dinner onto a horde of attacking insect-like aliens. Ha ha ha!
That one panel aside, the book isn't very funny, the threats never feel very serious and a lot of stuff just happens without much explanation. We already know Ray Palmer will soon be returning to the fold, so DC probably would have been wiser to let the Atom costume sit in the closet for a few months. Instead, they hurried this anemic replacement along and tarnished the Atom's good name.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor
Brilliantly bizarre July 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The All-New Atom" faced an uphill battle, as newcomer Ryan Choi replaces long-time fan favorite Ray Palmer as the World's Smallest Superhero. But it's a battle Simone fights with glee, and one that, by the end of this volume, she's begun to win.
The story focuses around Ryan Choi's arrival in Ivy Town, home to the legendary (but missing) Ray Palmer. Ryan is a genius scientist from China and a long-time pen pal of Ray's, so he leapt at the chance to fill in for his mentor as a professor at the presigious Ivy University. But not all is right in Ivy Town, and that's where the wonder kicks in.
Ivy Town is a place that could only truly exist in the DC Universe. It's quirky concept - a city where so many weird things have happened, that nature has begun to bend and reality break - takes an issue or two to get used to, despite how much it delves into DC History. But, soon enough you'll find yourself laughing as you realize the quirks and eccentricities that make Ivy Town special...and don't worry: no prior knowledge of the DC Universe is necessary to understand or enjoy the story.
Ryan Choi proves to be an entertaining hero as he combats such threats as Giganta, an alien invasion from a race called the Waiting, and a Lovecraftian cancer god, but a lot of the best aspects of the story come from the supporting cast - most notably, from the Lighter than Air Society, a group of scientific geniuses who gather to play cards, drink, and invent insane devices to aid Ryan in his struggles.
If you have a thirst for the bizarre, arcane, or occult, The All-New Atom might be the hero for you. If you like quirky science adventures, The All-New Atom might be the hero for you. And, most of all, if you like a book that's just flat-out fun, The All-New Atom might be the hero for you.
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