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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Anna Atom vs Max Atom'' (short story)}}{{Short Story
|title1= ''Anna Atom vs Max Atom''
|image1= Anna Atom vs Max Atom.png
|caption1= First illustration of the story.
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|hero(es)= [[Anna Atom]]
|villain(s)= [[Max Atom]]<br>[[Ohmega]]
|featuring= [[Mayor Wilson]]<br>[[Kate Kerrigan]]<br>[[Amanda Allen]]
|setting= [[Earth-K]]<br>[[Transdimensional maelstrom]]<br>[[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]], [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]
|length= 4 parts
|crossovers= ''[[Kate Five (series)|Kate Five]]''
|writer(s)= [[Paul Hoppe]]
|artist(s)= [[Paul Hoppe]]
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|dates= March 31st, 2015-April 10th, 2015
|original_link= [http://cosmicbeholder.blogspot.com/2015/03/anna-atom-vs-max-atom.html]<br>[http://cosmicbeholder.blogspot.com/2015/04/anna-atom-vs-max-atom-pt-2.html]<br>[http://cosmicbeholder.blogspot.com/2015/04/anna-atom-vs-max-atom-pt-3.html]<br>[https://cosmicbeholder.blogspot.com/2015/04/anna-atom-vs-max-atom-pt-4.html]
|seriesnav= ''[[The Cosmic Beholder (series)|The Cosmic Beholder]]'' comic stories
|previous= ''[[The Search For Kate Five (comic story)|The Search For Kate Five]]
|next= ''[[Sensation Adventures feat Centennia (short story)|Sensation Adventures feat Centennia]]''
}}'''''Anna Atom vs Max Atom''''' was short illustratedstory, released as part of [[Paul Hoppe]]'s webcomic ''[[The Cosmic Beholder (series)|The Cosmic Beholder]]''. A short interlude, it introduced the open-source characters of [[Anna Atom]] and [[Max Atom]] to the cast.

==Contents==
===Plot===
[[Max Atom]] was hailed for years as the greatest superhero of [[Earth-K]]. However, over time, he got tougher and more authoritarian in how he wielded his power, while his daughter [[Anna Atom]], who inherited his powers and calling, has been advocating for a more open, transparent era of superheroics, in service to the public instead of her father's patronising dealing out of justice. Eventually, they come to blow, but when their final, equal strikes cause a massive explosion, the dust clears with both superpowered beings having vanished into thin air. While many assume that they simply annihilated each other, they actually ripped [[Rift|a hole into the very fabric of the universe]], throwing them through a [[transdimensional maelstrom]] “into some different, far away dimension” — which turns out to be none other than [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]. 

As they rematerialise in a [[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]] quite like their own, Anna resumes fighting Max, who soon pretends to falter under her furious blows, until the local authorities — with no context for the fight — swoop in and arrest Anna as a possible supervillains, while Max gets to be treated as a blameless victim, especially as [[Mayor Wilson]] recalls seeing him among the gathered multiversal superheroes during the “[[Indefinite Crisis of the Universe]] event” some years ago. Thus, Anna is arrested — too angry for words when [[Amanda Allen]] tries to interview her for Channel 6 — and taken into custody by [[Ohmega|people in opaque masques who don't look like police at all]], while Max basks in glory, with [[the Protectors]]' very own [[Kate Kerrigan]] is already trying to recruit him.

===Worldbuilding===
====Universes====
* This story opens in “the reality that is inhabited by Earth-K” (often referred to as simply [[Earth-K]] for short as per the superhero convention). The characters then travel to [[Reality Z-25 31-H]] through a [[transdimensional maelstrom]].

====Other====
* [[Max Atom|Max]] and [[Anna Atom]]'s powers are “nuclear-fueled”.

===Continuity===
* [[Mayor Wilson]], the mayor of [[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]] in [[Reality Z-25 31-H]], was previously seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, On Earth (comic story)|Meanwhile, On Earth]]'' and referenced in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, In Queens (comic story)|Meanwhile, In Queens]]''.
* [[Amanda Allen]] was previously seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Out Of Misery (comic story)|Journey Out Of Misery]]'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[Chasing Shadows (comic story)|Chasing Shadows]]''.
* [[Kate Kerrigan]], spokeswoman of [[the Protectors]], previously appeared in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, In Queens (comic story)|Meanwhile, In Queens]]'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[Epilogue to Destruction (comic story)|Epilogue to Destruction]]''.
* The masked troopers who take [[Anna Atom]] in custody, wrapping her in “power-dampening chains”, are recognisable as [[Ohmega]] troops as previously seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 6 (comic story)|Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 6]]'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Search For Kate Five (comic story)|The Search For Kate Five]]''.

==Behind the scenes==
===Read online===
''Anna Atom vs Max Atom'' is available online [http://cosmicbeholder.blogspot.com/2015/03/anna-atom-vs-max-atom.html on the ''Cosmic Beholder'' blog, starting here].

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