At NYCC 2025, writer Scott Snyder dished on the fun of the upcoming DC Ok.O. occasion
It is a happenin’ time for these of us who love watching dudes struggle. There is a new Mortal Kombat film on the manner with Karl City as Johnny Cage, the precise Mortal Kombat character Sub-Zero is coming to DC Ok.O., Absolute Batman will probably be combating white nationalists in an annual out later this month, and writer Scott Snyder is having “the most fun [he’s] had” placing collectively DC Ok.O. with fellow writer Joshua Williamson. DC Ok.O. is the writer’s present company-wide occasion, the place the heroes and villains of the DC Universe are pitted towards one another in, effectively, a Mortal Kombat-style match that can depart one ultimate character standing to struggle Darkseid.
At New York Comedian Con 2025’s Retailer Day, Snyder defined to comedian retailer homeowners, “Fight Month is December. It is all these characters in one-shots the place one character fights one other character. I am doing one in every of them, the Pink Hood one, it is gonna be a blast. The fun of Fight Month is that it is not identical to one situation the place they struggle, it is best of three, to allow them to respawn. Once they respawn — it is so dumb, however I find it irresistible — they’ll tackle any model of themselves from continuity that they wish to struggle the different individual, and so it is simply fully fucking bonkers. And the most fun that we have had.”
After all, Pink Hood will probably be combating the Joker in the one-shot Snyder is co-writing with Joshua Williamson, with artwork from Dustin Nguyen. It is an vital and emotional rematch towards the clown who initially murdered him again when he was only a Robin in the 1988 storyline ‘A Loss of life in the Household.’ At DC’s Subsequent Stage panel at NYCC, Snyder famous that Jason Todd will respawn at one level in the situation as Robin in the notorious warehouse the place he was killed by the Joker. That is one approach to confront your trauma!
My query is, as Popverse’s rabid Jason Todd fan, will Pink Hood select to respawn as the model of himself from a weird 2006 arc in Nightwing the place he was a cannibal tentacle monster? I am not kidding you – the story exists in Nightwing (1996) #122, and it was written by Bruce Jones and pencilled by Paco Diaz (with fantastic cowl artwork by none aside from Jock). Certainly, that will be the most environment friendly approach to take out the Joker, proper? I apologize to all of you studying this who simply realized this data for the first time.
DC Ok.O. #1 is at the moment obtainable. DC Fight Month begins December 2026.
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