Tribute for *fairly recent spoiler*

[auggie18]

So, as those of you who read Titans: Villains for Hire know, Ryan Choi is dead. He was my first and favorite Atom, so I prepared this tribute for him.

First, two pieces of fanart.


First one I did of the Atom in happier times. Messed up the costume a bit.



Second one I found.





Second, a poem from Ain't it Cool News

A lament set to the lyrics of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" by Ambush Bug

Goodbye Ryan Choi
Feels like I never…knew you at all
You had the power to shrink yourself
While those around you grew.

Kooks crawled out of the woodwork
Whatever spewed from Simone's brain
And those tiny little quotes were cool,
Even made Byrne seem…not so lame.

And it seems to me…you lived your life
Like an Atom in the wind.
Never knowing…where to shrink to
When bad sales set in.
And Remender tried to save you.
He wrote the best that one man can.
But your series ran out far too soon,
You tiny, Asian man…

Low sales were tough
The toughest foe that you have ever faced.
Although Chronos and Giganta fell,
You were no match for fanboys' bad taste.

COUNTDOWN kind of sucked,
But you fought on anyway.
Only to find that Robinson…
Wanted Palmer…
In the new JLA.

So goodbye Ryan Choi
From the young man on the 52nd Earth
Who sees you as something more than a fill-in,
For that whitebread…Ray Palmer.

And it seems to me…you lived your life
Like an Atom in the wind.
Never knowing…where to shrink to
When bad sales set in.
And I would have liked to read more
But I was just one fan.
Your series ran out far too soon,
You tiny, Asian man…


For legality:



Damn right, he's a hero.

Suggested tags

char: atom/ryan choi, char: giganta/dr. doris zeul, char: atom/ray palmer

Comments

[cloud_wolf]

I hear ya on the East Asian part (so that's Connor, Cass, Ryan, Lian, Sin sorta, and some others) but it's not like there were so many Middle Eastern characters to begin with. =_= *waves little ME ethnicity flag with sadness*

[cuntfucius]

I am Middle Eastern, myself, but so far we have Black Adam, Osiris, Talia al Ghul, uh ... this list should stop right now.

[bluefall]

There's always Janissary!

DC: Where limbo is the best a minority can hope for.

[krassock.livejournal.com]

You also have Naif al-Sheikh from Justice League Elite. He's probably never going to show up again though.

[lieut_kettch]

Taleb Beni Khalid from Checkmate... when he isn't being impersonated by J'onn, that is.