Future Quest #4: Mother's Day (of The Rise of the Super-Bot)

[zapbiffpow]

DC: The New Frontier + Hanna-Barbera characters = one of Rebirth's best team books today. Swear! Give it a chance when you have the...well, chance.  

 

Anyway, each backup contemporizes an HB-verse superhero's origins. This one, about healing from loss through giant-ass robotry, is about Frankenstein Jr. Check it!

 

 







I'm saving my fingers for a meatier Future Quest post, so just the comic and this: apparently the Kim-Conroys and Frankenstein Jr. are joining up with the Impossibles later in the story, turning a campy cartoon title into a legitimate separate party, a la Hilltop Colony to the Quest Family's Alexandria.

I think. The point is that this The Stand-style ensemble cast thing they're going is really great. 

Comments

[icon_uk]

I confess I have also been pleasantly surprised at the HB revamps too.

Not all to my tastes, but i have to give them credit for doing some freaky stuff with them, and when they have worked (subjectively speaking of course), they've been excellent. They even included the Impossibles in the most recent issue of Future Quest! :)

[zapbiffpow]

Oh, man, The Impossibles were great - they're basically Hanna-Barbera Teen Titans. I didn't know anything about them pre-this, but it's actually working in their favor since this is a chance to do like a canonical origin for them.

RE: freaky stuff - apparently Scooby Apocalypse (and so probably Wacky Raceland) are in-universe fiction, a la Ultimate Iron Man, so I imagine Mystery Incorporated!Prime and Wacky Racers!Prime are still bouncing around in the Future Quest timeline, ripe for a definitive-r portrayal.

[super_fly]

"If you have a clumsy child you make them wear a helmet, if you have kidnap-prone children you keep a giant robot around."

[zapbiffpow]

As stipulated in the average children's insurance package contract.

Also, apparently a stealth giant robot, given how easy it was for it to sneak up on them FEAR agents there.

[wizardru]

Wow, this is actually pretty great, how did...oh, Jeff Parker. Right, carry on then.

Clearly I need to grab these.

[zapbiffpow]

What's weird is I don't remember much from Jeff Parker's Aquaman run (or his anything else run), while his work here is red-hot.

As always, it's Editorial's lookout to slot talent where they'll do the best work. See Marguerite Bennett on Talon versus Marguerite Bennett on DC Bombshells; Judd Winick on Justice League: Generation Lost vs. Judd Winick on Catwoman; etc.

[astrakhan42]

Jeff Parker is one of those writers who's always better at taking pre-existing characters and making new team narratives out of them versus straight-up solo superhero books. Look at Agents of Atlas, X-Men First Class and Thunderbolts.

[zapbiffpow]

Thanks! I'll look at those books after I've finished with All-New Atom (as per another recommendation from here).