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Cover for Nightwing #109
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icon_ukThe end of the pirate-themed trilogy involving Captain Blud and the mysterious storage facility known as "The Hold"
We saw the covers for 107 and 108
How could the possibly top those fornautical nonsense piratical themed adventure?
Well, this IS Dick Grayson so... yeah, they go THERE!
( Embiggened under the cut )
We saw the covers for 107 and 108
How could the possibly top those for
Well, this IS Dick Grayson so... yeah, they go THERE!
( Embiggened under the cut )
Monkey Prince #1
Mar. 1st, 2022 01:45 amcyberghostface
"It’s a thrill. There’s a lot of overlap between the Monkey King and the American superhero genre. They both are heroes, they’re battling for the fate of the world, they’re both dressed up in fancy, colorful costumes, and they both have these fantastical, superhuman powers. It felt good to bridge that gap between those two loves—American superheroes and the legend of the Monkey King.
We wanted to firmly ground our character in the DC universe. We wanted it to feel like a story that couldn’t be told anywhere else. The main character isn’t the Monkey King himself, he’s actually his son—that’s why he’s called the Monkey Prince. Second, we wanted to tie him into DC heroes and DC conventions. We wanted a relationship between the character and the heroes and villains that already exist in the DC universe." -- Gene Luen Yang
( Scans under the cut... )
Batman/Catwoman Special #1 - "Interlude"
Feb. 26th, 2022 10:09 pmlaughing_tree
Written for John Paul Leon who drew about third of it before he passed, it’s now a tribute to him. Finished by JPL’s friends, it’s about life and death and all the holidays in between. -- Tom King
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Monkey Prince #0
Oct. 17th, 2021 10:00 amcyberghostface
DC has announced Monkey Prince (who first appeared in DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1) is getting his own series next year and has released this free story on DC Universe Infinite.
( Scans under the cut... )
superboyprime
"But as for the King, I have always thought he was ahead of his time, and [the first appearance of the Mutant Force] is no different. The issue features an argument between Magneto and Captain America over who gets to decide a mutant’s fate. Cap considers himself the moral authority, but Magneto argues it should fall on a mutant to judge the actions of another mutant. As a human, even an enhanced human, Cap doesn’t have the context or authority to judge a mutant’s actions. And of course, it blows up into explosive Kirby madness, but the core idea there is one that’s still relevant today when it comes to respecting and listening to cultural boundaries and lived experience. And here was the King, working through that theme decades ago!" - Steve Orlando
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cyberghostface
"One of the issues with doing something with the Monkey King is that in Asia, specifically in China and in Japan, he is so popular that it feels like almost every working cartoonist in China and Japan has done something with him. There is adaptation after adaptation of Journey to the West, of the story that originally tells his adventures. And even Dragon Ball Z, which is one of the most popular anime and manga series on the planet, is essentially a retelling of the Monkey King story. So, one of the questions that we struggled with early on was, first, how do we not overlap with any of the stuff that's out there? And second, we just felt like there was no reason to bring him into the DC universe unless it could feel very natively DC.
"In the original Monkey King story, a lot of the action is built on this idea that demons wanted to eat holy people. They wanted to eat the heroes and saints of the time, because they believed that by eating holy people, by eating these heroes and saints, they would be able to get immortality. There was something magic about their flesh. So, DC is full of heroes. It's full of these paragons of moral virtue. So, it felt like a really nice and easy overlap, so we wanted to play with that idea."-- Gene Luen Yang
( The Monkey Prince Hates Superheroes )
S.W.O.R.D. #3 - "Everywhere Man"
Mar. 10th, 2021 12:38 amlaughing_tree
It’s not a superhero team in the sense of ‘We need to fight crime with six people and we need a super-strength person and a magic person.' It’s a team built around roles. There’s an org chart. We have a station to staff, and various employment trees. -- Al Ewing
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icon_ukBruce and Damian have a LONG overdue father son moment, which leads to something terrribly sad.
( Looks like the rumours are true )
( Looks like the rumours are true )
icon_uk...which hasn't been fair as some of the recent stories have been rather good, but having just seen THIS from Nightwing #38, if I didn't post this IMMEDIATELY, I suspect I would need to resign from Scans_Daily forthwith..
( Context? We don't need no stinking context! )
( Context? We don't need no stinking context! )
