Oct. 20th, 2022
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I wanted to create a kind of Asgard for Black Adam, and have the gods become a thorn in his side. But the Egyptian gods have appeared in various forms and I felt it would be too heavy a lift to definitively wipe out all of that established stuff. To be honest, I wanted to use the Kirby New Gods but my Deathstroke experience taught me that editors tend to be extremely protective of their franchises and I doubt we’d be granted the level of agency I would seek. So the Akkad are our own private set of New Gods. Ta-daa! I asked Rafa to ‘Kirby it up’ with the Akkad, a decidedly nonwhite pantheon of super-annoying meddlers, and Rafa just went berserk. -- Christopher Priest
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