This series has a lot of potential. They're off to a good start too. Ryan Choi has come to Ivy University, per Ray Palmer's request, and is literally stepping into his shoes. His classes, his position, his house, his friends, everything. And with those friends, a bunch of cantankerous old teachers/scientists, they are testing out the Atom's equipment to see how it works. His first try out, Ryan almost blows himself up because he doesn't expand up right, which almost makes him become unstable and explode. Not a good way to start the series. Ray then interacts, some character development, with different people around the University. But there's some stuff going on in the background. It appears that Ivy University is being invaded by some kind of alien tech monsters. Also, don't forget the we have the microscopic aliens that are living on the dogs around town, that we got a glimpse of last issue. So Ray follows them into the subway, and, in trying to evade them, comes across some kind of huge blob type monster that says, "Greetings traveler. I have been waiting eons for you." Don't know what that's all about. Oh yeah, and then on the last couple pages, we see this psycopath that Ray Palmer is giving another Atom belt to. At least it appears to be Ray. Like I've said with other books, Gail Simone is an incredible writer. She's pretty new to the scene, but, she's coming on really strong, really fast. John Byrne is on pencils. I'm not to pleased with him right now, after the debacle with Blood of the Demon, but I have to admit, with Trevor Scott doing his inks, his pencils looked pretty good. Hope this series lasts for a long time. And I hope we find out what happened to Ray soon.
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