#wade eiling

[meemotin]

Captain Atom is so so underrated and overlooked. I’ve started to read his 1980’s solo run and it’s so good.

[vexic929]

Child in Time

Chapter 22

Warnings: none

Chapter 1: link

Previous chapter: link

Big Belly Burger did not usually warrant jealousy. At least, not in this century. Harrison could get himself one when this business was through. That was what he told himself as he wheeled down the hall and into the Time Vault, replaying the last tender morsel disappearing into Allen's undeserving mouth in the Cortex.

"Good afternoon, Dr. Wells." Gideon's smooth, tinny voice greeted as he crossed to the dais in a handful of purposeful strides.

"We'll see, Gideon," Eobard replied, casually readjusting his watch before directing his attention to the AI's holographic face. "Pull up the feed from cameras 118 through 127."

"Certainly."

Nine live videos replaced Gideon's face, forming a 3x3 grid. Soldiers in fatigues posted outside a concrete building. More soldiers, drinking beer and chatting off-duty in a break room. A couple more making their way down a dim, grey hallway. Still more in another room shooting paper targets with automatic rifles.

"Barbaric..." Eobard muttered, lip curling in derision.

Then - there he was. General Wade Eiling, conveniently crossing through camera 126 to take a seat in his office where camera 127 waited.

It wasn't that Eobard wanted to see General Eiling. Eobard would have been happy to never see the man again. Unfortunately, however, Eobard had gotten the feeling that the general would be paying another unwelcome visit soon and Eobard was very rarely wrong.

After several minutes of watching Eiling work in silence, Eobard finally spoke again.

"Bring up my log. New entry: Subject has retrieved the infant from the Impostor Reverse Flash however, attempts to convince him to return to his usual activities have yielded no results. It remains to be seen if this new overprotectiveness is temporary or an additional cause for concern."

Eobard paused, swiping his hand across the interface to pull up the cameras again with a frown. Eiling was thumbing through a thick folder stamped F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. while a sergeant major said something he clearly wasn't interested in listening to.

He swiped back to the log.

"Priority remains the restoration of temporal integrity. To that end, efforts will resume immediately toward identifying the Impostor, determining motive, and removing him from the equation. Only then can I truly make substantial progress in returning the infant and myself to our respective times."

Eobard did not immediately dismiss the log when he was through. His gaze lingered on the glowing text as though the neatness of the record might impose some order on the chaos Barry Allen had dumped into his carefully managed life.

"Pull up the Cortex security feed."

"Of course, Doctor."

The log vanished and the heart of S.T.A.R. Labs appeared in its place.

At first, nothing seemed to be particularly worrying. The computer monitors glowed their usual cool blue. On the far left edge of the frame, just off the ramp into the medbay, Caitlin stood beside a cot while Barry sat on its edge with the infant propped against his chest. Barry was holding a bottle at a careful angle, head bent, attention entirely consumed. Eo's tiny fingers were clenched in the front of Barry's shirt.

Caitlin and Barry's heads both jerked suddenly to the right. Eobard followed their gaze.

The distance between Cisco and Hartley was already too small.

Hartley's mouth moved first. Whatever he said made Cisco bark something back immediately, quick and hot. Cisco took one step forward. Hartley did not retreat. He only tilted his head and smiled that thin, poisonous smile Eobard knew far too well.

"Oh, god damn it..." Eobard muttered. Red lightning licked briefly at the edges of his vision as he crossed the Vault and seated himself again in one smooth motion. Glasses on. Expression calmed. Hands relaxed on the armrests despite the fact that he wanted very badly to put Hartley Rathaway through a wall.

By the time the doors to the Cortex opened for him, Caitlin had already planted herself between Cisco and Hartley with all the rigid, brittle determination of someone trying not to make a bad situation worse.

"Okay. Nobody is taking another step," she said, one hand braced out toward Cisco and the other angled toward Hartley. "Cisco, breathe. Hartley, please just...stop talking."

Cisco looked like he might have laughed if he had not been so furious. Instead, his mouth twisted hard and ugly.

"He started it-"

"I don't care who started it." Caitlin interrupted.

Hartley's expression sharpened, pleased in the most infuriating way possible. He tilted his head, blue eyes glittering behind his glasses.

"Temper, Cisquito. Though, I suppose lashing out is easier than admitting you're out of your depth." His gaze flicked deliberately toward the medbay where Barry still sat with Eo. "Then again, failing to protect the people around you does seem to be a pattern. Tell me, how did that containment unit work out for you? The one that was supposed to trap the Man in Yellow?"

Cisco lunged.

Caitlin caught him with both hands against his chest, heels scraping on the floor as she shoved back with all the strength she had.

"Cisco, no!"

"Enough."

Dr. Wells' voice cut through the Cortex like a knife.

Cisco was breathing hard, eyes still locked on Hartley, gaze murderous, though he no longer seemed ready to run Caitlin over to get to the other man. Caitlin lowered her hands by slow degrees, though she stayed exactly where she was, squarely between the two men as if she did not trust either of them not to make another, worse decision.

"Go back to your workshop, Cisco," Harrison said evenly.

Cisco stared at him.

The old instinct to obey was warring visibly with everything Cisco now knew, everything he no longer trusted, everything he wanted to say. Harrison could see it in the tension working in his jaw, in the way he shifted his weight forward and then forcibly back again.

"He doesn't get to-" Cisco began.

"Now." Harrison's tone sharpened only slightly.

That did it.

Cisco's nostrils flared. For one absurd second Harrison thought he might actually refuse. Then Cisco looked at Caitlin, looked at Barry, looked at Hartley with naked loathing, and gave a tight, furious nod.

"Fine." He took two backward steps toward the hall, then pointed at Hartley without taking his eyes off Harrison. "But if he says one more thing about me, about any of us, I reserve the right to kick his ass."

Hartley snorted. "How terrifying."

"Hartley, I swear to god, if Cisco doesn't hit you, I will. Shut up," Caitlin snapped suddenly, startling both of them.

For one blessed second, Hartley actually did. Barry, who had gone utterly still through the entire exchange, poorly covered a laugh and tightened his hold on Eo when the baby shifted against his chest with a small, uncertain whimper. Harrison's eyes flicked to Hartley, then to Cisco's retreating back, then to Caitlin returning to the medbay, calculating the fracture lines running through his team even as the beginnings of a new headache pressed behind his eyes.

In a military base a few miles away, General Eiling was still flipping through that damned file, and Eobard had the distinct, sinking sense that they were jumping from one crisis straight into another.

[somewherefornow]

RAY PALMER/THE ATOM + PROTECTING NATHANIEL ADAM/CAPTAIN ATOM in JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE ATOM PROJECT (2025)

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

WAIT I JUST THOUGHT OF A GREAT BARRY WHUMP STORY IDEA

Content: Blackmail, human experimentation, dehumanization, hidden whump.

Sometime after Firestorm goes off the radar, General Eiling sets his sights on the Flash. But since regular kidnapping was ineffective and resulted in a rescue last time, he tries a different approach.

He presents Barry with an ultimatum: Become a lab rat for the military, bring himself in every week or so for blood samples, tests, and very ethical experiments. Or have his identity as the Flash ‘anonymously’ revealed, jeopardizing the lives and safety of his loved ones (or something else for the blackmail— that’s just what I’ve thought of atm). Ofc, since this is whump, he chooses the first option.

A fun little detail about this deal though… He can’t tell anyone about it, and if he does, that person will mysteriously disappear. And they *will* know if he does, they’re keeping a close eye on such a valuable asset of course.

There’s just so much whump potential

The testing goes too far but Barry doesn’t have a choice so he suffers through it

Eiling reminding him that he chose to do this

Barry having to hide his pain (physical and emotional) from everyone. Especially since they can probably tell something’s going on

A test going WAY too far and leaving an injury that’s extremely difficult to hide

Dehumanization from the scientists and (probably) Eiling

Barry having a tracker put in him so he can’t try to back out or flee with his loved ones (bonus if Barry tries to escape when he sees what they’re about to put in him, but gets metacuffed before he can. Double bonus if he says something along the lines of “this wasn’t part of the deal,” because in my head this is the first thing they do to him)

Some more emotional whump— Barry breaking down after some weeks or maybe months of enduring this because he just feels so miserable and powerless (bonus if it’s either in front of someone on Team Flash, or he lets himself collapse and sob into them)

That’s all I’ve gotten so far but holy crap do I want this now

[peanutbutterstotch]

Captain Atom and General Eiling acting like a divorced couple made me low-key almost ship them

[skinansie]

I'm not getting excited about what this means for Captain Atom bc if DC loves to do 2 things it's a. use Nate's cast without even paying lip service to him and 2. disrespect women

[longwuzhere]

My Adventures with Superman Season 2 Easter Eggs

Welcome to another week of My Adventures with Superman WOW twist the knife more why don't you MAwS crew! Very emotional episode and a good one at that! OK lets get to the easter eggs!

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 5 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

Spoilers if you haven't seen the episode

The title of this week's episode is a reference to Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" poem specifically the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood". A good title for how General Sam Lane and Lois's lives "diverged" from one another after all the things that happened between the two.

Starting things off, General Sam Lane is hiding from Taskforce X and has covered the windows in Clark and Jimmy's apartment. Clark and Jimmy return and they get a knock on the door. General Lane is naturally jumpy at this but it turns out it's a package for Jimmy from S.T.A.R. Labs (I talked about the laboratory here) and the message says Jimmy is invited to speak at the symposium thanks to his Flamebird app and documentations about the occurrences around Metropolis, Superman, and the alien tech everyone's been getting. The message refers to Jimmy as Superman's "best friend" (and later on Lex Luthor calls Jimmy a "pal" both of which are often used as a way to referred to Jimmy in the comics. There's even been comics titled Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, that lets reader's see Jimmy's adventures in relation to Superman. The latest run of it is fan-fucking-tasic! Highly recommend reading it!

In a, I'm assuming rented limo, Clark reads off who will be at the S.T.A.R Labs Symposium. First is CEO Hamilton, who we can assume is Emil Hamilton, General Wade Eiling, and Senator Hackett. Later at the symposium we even see General Eiling in the animated flesh with Hank Henshaw (who I talked about here) and sitting next to Mayor Fleming and Senator Sackett (both of whom I talked about here and they are wearing their outfits from episode 4 season 1).

Emil Hamilton makes his first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #424 (1987) [W: Marv Wolfman, P: Jerry Ordway, I: Mike Machlan, C: Tony Zuiko, L: John Costanza] as a former S.T.A.R. Labs employee who lost his job and his technology credit thanks to Luthor buying them out and claiming it as his own. He's Superman's science confidante and helped build the Phantom Zone Projector and the Superman robots. But later on he delves into more villainous territories.

General Wade Eiling I briefly talked about here but I can expand on it. Like I said in the previous post about General Eiling, he made his first appearance in Captain Atom #1 (1987). He becomes an even bigger threat to the Justice League in JLA #25 (1999) [W: Grant Morrison, P: Howard Porter, I: John Dell, C: Pat Garrahy, L: Ken Lopez]. General Eiling gets rid of his old human body and transfers his consciousness to the body of the Shaggy Man, shaved it down to what you see here. Now, he's granted super strength, near invulnerability, super stamina, and heightened sense of smell.

At the symposium, we see some tech demos with one being the invisibility vest that Mist wore in season 1 (I talk about him here) and the shield that blocks laser fire. Glad that someone on the MAwS team is a Gundam fan because that shield is designed to look like the Gundam RX-78's shield.

In a flashback to Lois's past, General Sam Lane explains to Lois what her mom's name means in Korean. Much like her comic counterparts, Eun-byeol's name starts with an E just like Ella/Elinore/Elenor Lane. Very smart of the MAwS crew to keep the consistency. Based on what was said in these flashbacks, Lois might be an only child, so no Lucy Lane, Lois's sister in this continuity.

As Lois and General Sam Lane try to hide themselves from Taskforce X, we see them get cornered in the sewers by Atomic Skull who I talked about here.

Continuing their escape, General Sam Lane and Lois meet a pawn shop owner, a friend of Sam's named Winslow Schott, a weapons and technology expert. This name drop is a reference to Superman villain, the Toyman.

Toyman's first appearance was in Action Comics #64 (1943) [Cover art by Sam Citron and Don Komisarow]. In this continuity, Winslow Schott was a talented toymaker who turned to the life of crime in order to get his thrills. In his debut he makes two robberies with his toys, but Superman stops his third robbery. Toyman captures Lois and attempts to kill her but was stopped by Superman.

In the silver age, Toyman makes his first appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #9 (1955) [W: Otto Binder, P: Curt Swan, I: Ray Burnley]. Here Toyman goes by Winslow Percival Schott, which becomes his full name from then to this day. In the comic, some crooks kidnap Jimmy and use him to answer some Superman trivia on a quiz show.

Winslow would be revamped again in Superman #13 (1988) [W&P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tony Zuiko, L: John Costanza] where he is a digruntled toy designer employee who was fired for not being able to adapt to what children wanted at the time. So as a result of his firing Winslow would go after his former employers and kill them with his toys. This was origin of Winslow I am more familiar with thanks to Superman the Animated Series (highly recommend watching that cartoon too because its incredible and also Toyman in that show is FUCKING creepy).

There have also been other people who took up the Toyman name. Jack Nimball, the second Toyman uses the same gimmicks as Winslow, but Jack is dressed as a Jester. You may recognize the design in the Super Friends cartoon. The third and heroic Toyman was Hiro Okamura who was a rich Japanese teen with incredible intelligence and mechanical skills. Hiro would be most famous in the pop culture zeitgeist when he, Superman, and Batman teamed up together to stop a giant kryptonite asteroid from colliding with the Earth as seen in Superman/Batman #6 (2004) and the Superman/Batman: Public Enemies animated movie.

At the end of the episode, Clark feeling alone after overhearing Lois agree with her father that Clark was weird and hearing that Jimmy helped Lex get his start, he uses the beacon to contact Kara, his cousin who I talked about here. So I have a weird theory. It is possible that the person flying over Earth is not "Zod" but actually Kara?. In season 1's finale "Zod" uses the "kneel before me" line making all of us think its Zod, but the credits list the character with a female VA. So my idea is this was Kara receiving the signal from the beacon.

We seen in next weeks episode preview Kara will be showing up and that close up on the bracelet makes me think this is how she compacts the armor. Will I be right? Who knows, but all I can say is:

Very good episode this week can't wait to see what they'll do with Kara next week!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 5 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

and if you missed it my Season 1 Easter eggs list is here

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