Luby Work: Character Design: the Atomic Duo

The Heart and Soul of the AtomicDuo: Fatman, the Human Megaton! Fatman was just an ordinary, overweight janitor at the White Sands, New Mexico Nucear Testing Facility, until the fateful day he was exposed to high levels of ultra-rare Pseudonim isotope and gained fantastic strength and endurance! Now he works as the lead of the U.S. Super-Secret Service, fighting the encroaching Nazi Martian threat! In truth, though, Fatman is like a walking sledgehammer; a blunt instrument with as much brains at 9 lbs. of lead. Without his sidekick, Little Boy, he would never have a single successful mission.

Little Boy is the Brains and Skill of the Atomic Duo, without him, there would be no team. An Army Orphan, his skill and wit were honed on the mean streets. At 8, by a stroke of luck, he found himself in the very same halfway house as his partner, Fatman, at the time of Fatman's tranformation. Sworn to secrecy, he leapt at the opportunity to serve his country! In his 4 years of training, he mastered every physical and mental discipline presented to him and graduted to be Fatman's partner. He still thinks he got a raw deal...

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