Atomika

For the fictional disc jockey (DJ) by the same name in the video game "Burnout Paradise" developed by Criterion Games, see Burnout Paradise and Criterion Games.

Atomika is an American comic book series created in 2005 by Andrew Dabb (writer), Sal Abbinanti (penciller) and Buzz (inker), and published first by Speakeasy Comics and later by Abbinanti's Mercury Comics.

Plot

In the 20th century the Soviet Union creates its own god, Atomika. With a skin of steel and the power of the atom burning inside him the new, red god confronts the old gods of Rus. Always controlled and advised by Arohnir, the real leader of the red empire and the man who forged Atomika in the furnaces of the earth with the fire of science. One after another the old gods of Rus fall under the power of Atomika, but does he understand Rus, its people? Atomika casts doubts on his mission, but do gods have doubts? Then he fights Baba Yaga, an enemy which seems to be the death of the red god... or a new life!?

Collections

The story is being collected as trade paperbacks:

• God Is Red (collects #1-6, Speakeasy Comics, 168 pages, September 2005, ISBN 0973703970, Mercury Comics, 2006, 148 pages, ISBN 1427600112)

See also

• Superman: Red Son

External links

• Mercury Comics
• Kevin Malcolm at Emerald City ComiCon for The Backroom Comics Podcast Episode 5 - Emerald City ComiCon Part 1, April 2009