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This series has been excellent, with Mark Waid and Chris Samnee retelling the early days of Batman and the first Robin in a way which seems both classic and fresh.

( Case in point.. )

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I made a post for those who like the ladies, but we also have some lovely upcoming covers for those who like the gentleman too.

( Yay! )

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Tom King: "Mister Miracle, which I think is probably the best thing I ever wrote, is ultimately this warm story about surviving adversity, which is the mood I was feeling at the end of this last decade. Strange Adventures is a much angrier book, a much more caustic book. Mister Miracle was about how we survive through love. But this is about how we react to evil and how we deal with it and confront it. To me, it's a much more active book, and it reflects more of the emotional place I am in now, where I'm done with surviving. I'm ready to fight."

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For the 80th Anniversary Wonder Woman special, Doc Shaner and I got to tribute the Sekowsky/O’Neil Mod Diana run, which I unironically love. Well maybe a little ironically. -- Tom King

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Doc has that rare gift that Darwyn Cooke, Alex Toth and Alex Raymond had — that insane ability to draw comics the way people imagine comics to be, a sort of Platonic comic ideal. If you go up to any person on the street and have them close their eyes and think of what a comic looks like, they’re seeing Doc Shaner panels. Now when we contrast those to Mitch’s signature real-world grounding of comics, it creates a delightful tension that reflects the gnawing tension at the heart of the series. -- Tom King

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I feel like all our fantasies are being crushed constantly. What we thought our country was, what we thought our safety was. All these myths I had growing up as a kid, I'm just throwing out the window each day. I want to write a book about the myths of them and what it's like to lose them. -- Tom King

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( The truth revealed )

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I think the thing I didn’t want to do the most was become stale. My first three books, Sheriff of Babylon, The Vision, and Omega Men were all about the Iraq War experience. My next books, Batman, Heroes in Crisis, and Mister Miracle were all about trauma and family and romance. I was super scared, I’ve done my best work, so the idea was to get experimental and do something weird and off and just not sit still. Not be a dying shark, to keep going. -- Tom King

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Adam Strange is one of a long line of characters, like Tarzan and Flash Gordon—stolid men with dimpled chins who thrive in “foreign lands”—who stand in as a metaphor for a 19th Century European dream of colonialism. Of course, colonialism was nothing like this dream, and it’s that contrast that interests me: the bloody gap between the myth and the reality. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

I was falsely accused of faking my CIA past which is crazy because I didn’t fake it. I remember the utter feeling of helplessness and frustration of being accused of something I didn’t do and having to prove who I was. That emotion was very much on my mind when I was constructing this. Adam might be a little more guilty than I was. Or maybe he’s not as guilty as I was, I guess we’ll find out. -- Tom King

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It’s once again our attempt to something like Watchmen or New Frontier, a contained story that speaks to its time that also expands what comics can be. Not saying we can do it or have done it, but we’ll try, or rather we’ll keep trying. Unlike Mister Miracle, this isn’t another tale of one man’s angst or trauma or recovery. Strange Adventures is fundamentally about something larger, deeper and darker—it’s trying to speak to the nature of truth and how our assumptions about that nature can tear us apart. -- Tom King

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It’s super-corny, but I’m madly in love with my wife and it informs and infects everything I write. I try to tell her, “Look honey, I wrote 85 issues of Batman as a love story, happy anniversary!” And she says, “No, you still have to take me out to dinner.” DC Comics has this romance in it in a way that Marvel doesn’t, it’s one of the few advantages we have over the competition. There’s a romantic ideal that we can lean into. But they’re totally different couples, because with Catwoman and Batman you have her being this villain, this untamed person. With Scott and Barda, you have a couple who’s been married forever and you’ll see that there’s a different dynamic between Adam and Alanna. She’s literally the princess of her world, she’s in charge of keeping it safe. And you have the princess married to the adventurer. It’s a darker relationship, I think. -- Tom King

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laughing_tree

I know my job is to have imagination, but one of the funny things about this comic is that it was inspired by a very mean tweet someone sent me. It was just the tweet you’re not supposed to read like, “Tom King just writes comics because he committed war crimes and he’s trying to hide it.” That’s not what I do, but how cool would it be if that’s what I did? That literally sent me off to the track, what would it be like if I was hiding my past? -- Tom King

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King says that [on Strange Adventures] he's trying to throw away the themes of his previous works (the Iraq war and his personal trauma). King says that he needs to make something more contemporary and that in the wake of the 2016 election everyone said that we were going to get great art but that he hasn't seen that great art yet so they're going to try do that. -- Newsarama

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( Flash Forward )

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Jeff Parker's done a great job of separating the workable elements of the "Future Quest" component series from their parodies. A lot of that is done by jettisoning some of the characters who became the silliest. That's why Falcon 7/Phil Ken Sebben has a vastly reduced presence and Birdman's and Space Ghost's villains have been almost entirely absent apart from the more generic F.E.A.R. organization. (It's also why they didn't use Sealab 2020--there's no way anyone could take those characters seriously after Sealab 2021.)

But still, in this week's Future Quest #11, we do get a quick cameo from a character I'd been waiting to see since the start of the series...

( And as a bonus, it's not really a spoiler since it's just conjecture )

thanekos

The best of the two depends on the circumstances.

Those circumstances can depend on whom the thing's being done for.

They can depend on the mood of that person.

( That can be estimated, correctly or not. )

Current Music: Sharks Are Circling - The Courteeners

thanekos

Story-wise, there's no reason for it to be.

Art-wise, there is- the first part's not drawn by the regular team.

The division between it and the second feels natural; they're two wholes that make one.

The first opened with a title page like a pre-opening credits scene.

( It's a neatly compressed scene. )

Current Music: Show Me - Team Me

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Man, I hope DC doesn't waste this Hanna Barbera world-building kick they're on - this could end up being another Bombshells! Not to mention the literal universe's worth of adaptable ideas for a Wave 2: anything from Samurai Jack to Sealab 2021...

Or at least Ultimate Comics: Jabberjaw. While I type a 5-arc proposal for that, Future Quest draws its first three behind the cut:
( And together they're going to learn the true meaning of Christmas )

Current Music: Cartoon Network Groovies - "That Time is Now" feat. The Superfriends

laughing_tree

"Hal is the most fun character to write in the DC Universe and I say this as the guy who writes Dick Grayson ... Hal is a pilot and every test pilot has a god complex. He already thinks he's a god, he's just missing the powers." -- Tom King

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Strange Adventures #7 - "It should happen to everybody"

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Strange Adventures #2 - "A little demanding"

Strange Adventures #1 (2020) - "They floated above the ground"

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Future Quest #11: Cameo time!

There's often the choice of doing something quickly, or doing it thoroughly.

Flash Gordon #5 from Dynamite's in two parts.

Future Quest #1: Gathered Together from the Cosmic Reaches...

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