That's it for this issue of The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom and even though it does make sense that Captain Atom is willing to play ball with General Eiling so that he can keep his freedom and track down his boy, this issue feels like it jumped too far from where we were previously because we're right back to Captain Atom-ing like he never missed a beat and while I understand that we only have six issues to tell this story, it just felt off to me. Captain Atom isn't going to have time though this issue to have that first encounter with his boy because General Eiling sends him on his first mission, which in a way is Captain Atom cleaning up his own mess because during one of his quantum flares before he exploded, the flare hit a maximum security prison, where an inmate named Max Thrane was in the middle of being executed by electric chair and the flare combined with the city's power grid created a quantum bubble around Thrane, practically stopping time around him and keeping him from being electrocuted. probably because everyone believes that Vincent Mallory, which was the assumed name that Captain Atom was going by in the 90's was a deadbeat dad, who simply abandoned his family. At first it seems that somebody went to great lengths to keep the boy's identity a secret, but eventually it's all brought to light with a little more digging that Captain Atom's deceased wife's sister adopted his son after she died and he changed his name.
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