There's nothing wrong with character stories, but I think other writers have accomplished the same without the story being so disconnected. On the other hand, however, the story has much to do with Ryan but little to do with the Atom, as Ryan spends much of the story without his powers and the resolution has nothing to do with the size-changing mythos. On one hand, Simone writes a detailed, psychologically complex story of a young Ryan essentially terrorized and broken down by a bully in sequences as moving and brutal as anything you might read. When Ryan learns that his high school sweetheart Jia is being stalked by her ex-husband, he travels to Hong Kong to help what he doesn't know is that the ex-husband is now a revenge-seeking zombie. It's the second story "Jia," where this is most apparent. But neither story gives a sense that it moves the Atom series forward as a whole, and as such it feels like this trade is just biding its time. To be sure, Gail Simone writes two very engaging stories here, one where the new Atom Ryan Choi visits a future Ivy Town, and another where he returns to Hong Kong to save a lost love. Future/Past is one of those trades, coming between the first trade and the Hunt for Ray Palmer Countdown-crossover trade as the second new Atom trade, this down time probably comes a little too early. We've talked here sometimes about "in between" trades, those trades that collect the little stories from a series that fall between the big events.
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