Jim Shooter (W) Roger Robinson (A) Michael Komarck (Cover)
The dark god Moloch the Devourer pits his demonic hellfire against the thermonuclear fury of Doctor Solar. Whitmore Pickerel, whose power to bring his imagination into existence unleashed the Devourer, conjures the mighty sun-god Surya for protection. But instead, Surya bows before Moloch, and the Man of the Atom faces cosmic-scale war on a second front. With the power of Solar pitted against the god of the sun, can the planet survive?
All-new series written by Jim Shooter!
New artist: Roger Robinson (Azrael, Batman: Gotham Knights).
Date Available: 10/20/2010
BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS
Doctor Solar lives, with an origin that hints nuclear holocaust behind the wonderment of the power sitting around us, everywhere, all invisible. Yeah, there are other radioactive “heroes” out there, but none that stir up the shadows of an unstoppable Armageddon like our Doctor. Jim Shooter does a good job of emotionally tormenting our hero, not making him the super-extrovert-aggressive as is standard. The story itself plods, in part, since it keeps an arms distance to the main character; it shoves the cannibalistic darkness, festering around the corner, into our face, but does not let us know the tormented Dr. Solar at short distance. Still, the art does its duties, and the threat is original. Brimming with potential, I’d like to see where this one goes.
