DC Comics made some big reveals at the retailer Comicspro event today, including who will be taking over on Batman this September, and new “Summer of Superman” titles. The titles include Supergirl, launching May 14th, and Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton launching June 18th.
Sophie Campbell will write and draw Supergirl.
“I came up in the comics industry doing mostly graphic novels that I wrote and drew myself, so doing the same with Supergirl feels like I’m returning to my storytelling roots,” said Campbell. “My main touchstones to Kara Zor-El were the stories and the wild costumes from the 70’s, the 1984 Supergirl movie, and The CW show, which I was a huge fan of. In creating this version of Supergirl, I’ll be drawing on some of those influences as the series unfolds.”
So what’s Supergirl about?
Kara Zor-El has always been a key member of the Super-Family in Metropolis, but Campbell is taking Supergirl in a new direction among familiar surroundings, as she returns to the town of Midvale. With a new series, Supergirl also gets a new costume, designed by best-selling cover artist, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau. Supergirl’s fresh look will be spotlighted on the Supergirl #1 main cover by series writer/Campbell, a cardstock and foil variant by Artgerm, as well as variant covers by Bilquis Evely, Pablo Villalobos, Joshua Middleton and W. Scott Forbes.
DC also announced Ryan North and Mike Norton will take on Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, taking on an empathic eye of the ultimate outsider: a poor, lost dog who just happens to have superpowers.
“Krypto’s origin has always been done at kind of a high level,” said North. “The little guy starts out on Krypton, ends up on Earth, and helps Superman fight crime. The chance to really define Krypto—to show what a little lost dog would go through if he landed all alone on a strange alien world named Earth—was really enticing. And I also fell in love with the idea of treating Krypto as the actual dog he is: he doesn’t talk, and we don’t cheat by reading his thoughts in balloons either. Mike Norton’s art captures exactly what needs to be ‘said’ in every scene.”
So what’s Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton about?
Through the five issues of Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, Krypto explores Earth in search of his family. Finding himself lost and alone on our alien world—and with strange new superpowers quickly coming in—Krypto begins traveling the strange planet he finds himself in the middle of, always on the trail of his lost friend: Kal-El, a being now better known as Superman. Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1 will have a main cover by Jae Lee and a variant cover by Dustin Nguyen.
Finally, Mark Waid will return to Superman with artist Skylar Patridge with Action Comics #1087. This new team also takes the series in a new direction, spotlighting Clark Kent as Superboy, in his hometown of Smallville on the Kent family farm.
“I start the book with Clark as a 15-year-old boy, learning to be a superhero for the first time,” said Waid. “What is that like, learning to use your powers at that age? What kind of challenges are you facing? Skylar and I are also bringing Smallville a little more up to date—it still has that rustic feel to it, but farms don’t look like that anymore.”
This story will tie into the present storylines in DC’s comic books and takes the Boy of Steel to unexpected heights as he figures out what being a hero truly means. First stop, Metropolis’s Expo of Tomorrow! Will Clark be able to blend into the crowd? Or is Superboy about to make his public debut?! Action Comics #1087 will have a main cover by Ryan Sook, plus variants by Skylar Patridge, David Talaski, and Lesley “Leirix” Le.
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