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

[windleopard2]

Why exactly was he so insistent on Slade being Damian's father?

[blues32]

How would that even make sense? As if the first thing Bruce didn't do upon being told this brat was his son was a bunch of tests.

[mastermahan]

They'd probably say "Batman knew the whole time but went along with the lie to try and reach Damian."

Which doesn't make 'Damian Wilson' any less of a bad idea, mind.