ATOMIC TALES: ATOMICA SPECIAL

With the Miniseries complete, Hubris Comics needed to gauge reader interest. By featuring Atomica in their quarterly anthology title, they could use the sales on the always variable title to help decide. When the issue hit the stands, they sat back and waited for the returns to come in.

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Originally Posted by OOC Starting to lose steam on the whole delusional superhero gig. I basically walked through the next few quests on autopilot mentally, thinking more about that thing I can't talk about. and buying +4 weapons for my DDO character I never play and outright avoiding some major side quests out of a deep sense of ennui and time wasted doing them. Might be time for a break.

Allison finished up work for Moira on the Wasteland Survival Guide, earning top billing and a rename. Atomica's Illustrated Guide to Wasteland Survival (Listing Allison as the research assistant and Moira as Editor) spread far and wide. More and more often, people recognized her, Talons hesitated to attack, and after a few weeks, even started to believe she was actually real instead of someone dressed up like the character in the big comic book format guide.

She responded to trouble with Fire Ants in Greyditch, letting the villainous Doctor Lesko fall to his own creations. She went to Arefu, only to find it completely deserted. The word "Croatoan" was spray painted on the freeway. She tried to make contact with Tenpenny Tower The villain refused her entry to its sovereign walls, leaving her waiting for the despot to make another move on her Wasteland. Calls for help had starting to come in over the shortwave radio, all cataloged and highlighted by the computer and holomap in the Sanctuary.

The centerpiece of the book was her facing down a Supermutant Behemoth in an old campground near the remains of a railroad. The fight left her drained of resources, but victorious. Supermutants began to refer to her by name.
The book ends with a fold-out pin-up of Atomica, a series of pages detailing her gear, and a map of the Wasteland, with places like the National Archives, the Museum of History, Canterbury Commons, and Big Town indicated.

The last page is a reproduced advertisement: