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4. The Nuclear Family

Man, nuclear science sure is crazy, right?

Dr. Eric Shanner was a scientist working during the early days of atomic research. (which is weird, because I thought he was an artist whose work I loved in that Convergence: SHAZAM book, but whatever). Unfortunately, safety regulations weren't really a thing back then, so Shanner was irradiated. He then spread it to his entire family, and they all died. Yeesh.

So he built a robot version of himself, and robot versions of his whole family, and gave them all super powers. What powers? Well, they can each imitate a different stage of a"¦nuclear"¦blast. Double yeesh.

I dunno. That just feels in poor taste. Maybe it's because I live in California, and there's a 50 percent chance that I'll be nuked by a foreign power and a 50 percent chance I'll be nuked by my own president’s incompetence, but regardless. Like, people have actually been annihilated by nuclear weapons. And they’ve died. Horribly. And these guys were created in the ’80s, when nuclear war was troublingly close to happening. I'm just saying"¦yeesh.