From SDCC: DC's Young Animal imprint

[superboyprime]

San Diego Comic-Con brings us more information about Young Animal, DC's new 90s Vertigo-esque imprint...

A bunch of new images from the upcoming titles were released, available through DC's twitter.

Doom Patrol, by Gerard Way and Nick Derington:







Apparently, the imprint's going to be trying to play around with the physicality of comics. For example, Doom Patrol #1's cover will have a peel-off sticker of a giro, which can be removed to show a hidden image underneath. (They're also discussing a blacklight comic and a Batman-villain Bane coloring book.)



Each Doom Patrol issue will also have a back-up feature, "Super Powers," written and drawn by Tom Scioli (of Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe fame). They haven't said this anywhere but, Scioli being Scioli, I can't imagine this could possibly be in-continuity:



Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye, by Gerard Way, Jon Rivera, and Michael Avon Oeming:





Shade the Changing Girl, by Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone:



Mother Panic, by Jody Houser and Tommy Lee Edwards, DC's "first adult book based in Gotham City, about a character addicted to cybernetic augmentation." Each issue will also have something called "Gotham Radio" as a back-up feature, written by Jim Krueger.



At the Con, there was also black-and-white ashcan that gives info about the titles in the form of old school Who's Who's entries. The folks at io9 took some pictures:

Comments

[laughing_tree]

I'm excited for this and simultaneously fearful that the sales will be shit.

Everyone, this is our chance. Please, please don't let the sales be shit!

[mrstatham]

The biggest seller will be Way's book, mostly because it's him - lots of people followed him to the Umbrella Academy and (disappointingly) the tie-in Killjoys book (just about the single biggest waste of glorious Becky Cloonan art I've ever seen) - and partly because it's Doom Patrol. The others? I think they'll struggle a bit more, and will rely on DC wanting to support them, much like Marvel and a number of low-selling books that they seem to have now acknowledged aren't gonna sell much, but want to put out.

[empgonzo]

As much as I'm pumped for all of these. Cave Carson and Doom patrol especially, the Umbrella Academy fan in me is still screaming and clawing the walls for Hotel Oblivion.

[big_daddy_d]

Doom Patrol and Mother Panic are what I look forward to most.

[cynic79]

I'll be picking up Doom Patrol solely for that Tom Scioli backup. The man is a mad genius.