Tom Peyer Will “Hit You Over the Head With Time” in ATLAS UNIFIED

This fall, superheroes Grim Ghost, Phoenix and Wulf the Barbarian come together with hard-boiled cop Mike Lomax in Atlas Unified, Atlas Comics’ first universe-wide crossover event.Billed as an event thirty-five years in the making and kicked off at last weekend’s New York Comic Con with a special zero issue, the story will is written by industry veteran Tom Peyer and features art by Jimbo Salgado, who has moved over to comics from animation, where he has worked for years, including with Disney/ToonCity.ComicBook.com caught up with Peyer at the New York Comic Con to talk about the series. First, though, he gave us a bit of a primer on the history of Atlas.If you’re familiar at all with Atlas Comics which you don’t have to be it lasted under a year, but they launched so many characters and a lot of them appeared once, Peyer said of the original run of the comics, which was founded by Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman in 1974. I’m putting a lot of them in there these characters who appeared once, like Sgt. Hawk and Kid Cody, the Western gunfighter.So, he explained, “it’s a big time-travel story. If you liked Hourman, I will just hit you over the head with time again.