If there’s one hero in all of comics you can rely upon, it’s DC’s Superman. Everybody is aware of the place they’re with the Man of Steel — we all know that he stands for Fact, Justice and a Higher Tomorrow, that he’s an unmistakably good man, and that, odds are, you’re going to be okay if he’s there to assist out. However… what if one thing modified that?
Enter the artistic crew behind Picture Comics’ acclaimed (and Eisner Award nominated!) Ice Cream Man, W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran — a bunch who’re about to carry their model of genre-twisting, existential horror to the oldest superhero of all of them in the new five-issue collection Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum.
Revealed underneath the DC Black Label imprint — which signifies that the story is instructed outdoors of continuity (so something can occur!) and additionally geared toward older readers who may be prepared for one thing somewhat extra uncommon and difficult than the norm — The Kryptonite Spectrum is the story of what occurs when Superman finds new variations of the radioactive materials that can impact him, and what occurs when he units out to find what these new Kryptonites are succesful of.
Described by editor Paul Kaminski as “art-pop storytelling,” the collection is “usually warped, (*17*) and occasionally horrific, and lean[s} into the wealthy stylings of the silver age Superman franchise.” Author Prince says that it’s about one thing else as nicely, nevertheless.
“Martín, Chris and I wish to inform a bonkers story that additionally explores actual, human issues,” he stated in an announcement about the collection. “These Kryptonite shards are, in reality, items of Kal-El’s house. It is his own residence that hurts him. This concept that ‘house hurts’ can additionally be utilized to Batman, Surprise Lady, et al. So, we’re exploring that concept inside this framework of our regular experimental storytelling. Dwelling can be traumatic—and but there’s no place fairly prefer it, as Dorothy reminds us. We’re interrogating all these items inside the bookends of one thing decidedly wacky, and full of make-your-jaw-drop Man of Tomorrow moments. It’s what we do finest: an admixture of unhappy, humorous, and unusual. (And, as a result of it’s Superman, HAPPY!)”
Nicely, I’m satisfied. Or perhaps the proper phrase ought to be ‘involved’? (That every one-caps HAPPY is way from convincing, put it that means.)
The collection launches August 13 with covers from Morazzo and O’Halloran, Tula Lotay, Juan Ferreyra, Wes Craig, and Alex Eckman-Garden. You can see all of these covers, in addition to inside pages from the first situation by Morazzo and O’Halloran, in the gallery beneath.