Black Adam #4 - "Theogony, Book Four: Power"

[laughing_tree]

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

Comments

[shakalooloo]

And they also have teleportation technology that makes a loud BOOM noise.

[remial]

what? boom tubes?
yeah, most pantheons have them. once you out grow the whole flaming chariot across the skies thing, you go to the local dealer. you head towards the source wall, take a north at the screaming goat guy, go a light second, and there he is.

sure they have different brand names but they are all basically the same thing, like the differences between a Buick and a Caddie. Different brand names but owned by the same parent company, you know?

He mostly deals in new, but if you really push the issue he can set you up with a used system. Avoid the Yugo equivalent, everything he tells you about those is 100% true. Major gas guzzler, low mileage, always gonna be in the shop, etc.

[repto]

Gotta admit, the idea that godlike magi-tech teleportation always converges into the form of a boom tube is kind of a cool idea. Like Kirbytech is just a fundamental force of the universe.

[cainofdreaming]

Mother Boxes do tap into the Source, yup.