The Kamandi Challenge #1 STORYTIME

Didio and Giffen's third time, hope they land it

>>89410490
>eyeballs growing out of eyeballs
Gross.

I am so fucking hyped for the Giffen/Rude issue of this.

>>89411003
Why do sentient mutant animal people always latch on to the nukes?

>>89410921
That's a cool ass tank

>>89411073
I'm kinda disappointed that it's not the Hall of Justice.

>>89411109
How does he know that's a Jackdaw?

>>89411255
YOU DAMN STUPID ANIMALS

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HA HA !

SEE YA NEXT TIME

CREATIVE TEAM: PETER J. TOMASI & NEAL ADAMS

SEE YOU THEN!

>>89411242
He went to robot school man.

>>89411303
so this is didio's excuse to why he rejected paul pope's pitch in a rude way

i was reading this thinking, man it must take so much to coordinate all the writers and artists to tell the story and then i remembered the point was to keep doing cliffhangers and wild stuff

>>89411457
This seems more like a bullshit excuse

>>89410089
>rover and kirby
Ha.

>>89411457
That was 8 years ago

>>89411716
you're right, I wonder how many pitches have been rejected since then
I know Busiek did one

>>89409858
Thanks

>>89409858
Kek, I thought Ellis was writing Kamandi for a second. I feel much better, now.
Thanks OP

God damn this is fun. More people should be reading this. Please don't flop.

>>89411303
I really like how Didio would've continued his story. Gonna be really interesting to see all the differences between what the first writers planned and how the next writers actually solve it.

>>89410423
>To be continue in the very next page
I laughted.

>>89410228
>Robot Jack Kirby beating up a rat man

Off to a great start

>>89410423
>I need to complete this The Kamandi Challende or else I really will be Kamandi: The last boy on earth (tm) created by Jack Kirby.

>>89410886
That symbol... is it Brother Eye?

>>89416279
Probably.
In the original Kamandi, it was retconned that his grandad was Buddy Blank.
And the portal that Kamandi's granma here looked like the representation of Brother Eye that Didio and Giffen used for their OMAC series.

Whoa.

>>89410775


>I CAN SI~NG!

>>89418146
>PRINCE TUFAN! PRINCE TUFAN!

>>89411068
Have you ever seen a rocket like that up close

Anybody else kind of wish DC finished collecting the original Kamandi past where Kirby left the book? It feels wierd owning two omnibus' with the ending relatively close.

Before I dig in and read, is this a totally new take on Kamandi, or does it follow up after any previous stories?

>>89418795
Seems to be totally new (but there could always be some kind of twist)

>>89418795
New take

>>89418830
>>89418833

Cool. I've had the two omibus sitting around since they came out, but I'm retarded and haven't gotten to them. So I can knock this out quick and not feel too guilty.

Side question: Is DiDio and Giffen's OMAC canon to this? This thread makes me think there's an implication of that.

>>89418878
There's a slight visual implication in Didio and Giffen's prologue...but that could just be because they worked on it haha.

I'd love it though.

>>89411303
>NEAL ADAMS
Fuck Yeah

>Grandma Iris

Gee, I wonder what her connection to Brother Eye could be.

>>89419240
Yeah, OMAC is obviously implicated here

Tom King's story is going to feature the Atomic Knights, mark my words.

Anyone else finds this comic... oddly arousing?

>>89421367
You might be a furry, bro.

>>89415012
doesn't matter if it will flop. This is DC's tribute to 100 years of King Kirby. While of course Marvel is another fucking shitty event and variants.

Anyone feel like this is gonna be canon to Jack Kirby-verse of Multiversity?

>>89421367
get out you furry freak.

>>89424673
I know they'll at least put out all of this. But I was hoping that if it did well enough maybe we'd actually get an on-going.

Cheers

So Kamandi was educated in virtual reality and has a grandmother named Iris.

This is all sounding very familiar...

>>89425457
All he lacks is the super speed and the lack of attention.

>>89421367
Is it because he never wears a shirt.

>>89416345
The one that dies in the very first Kirby issue?

>>89409831
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hcjcSQvkc

Based Didio giving an interview
>Creative Team was picked out of a hat
>Palmiotti and Conner still gets paired

>>89425542

>>89426129
Yes.
Poor Buddy.

>>89426838
>That Rockafort cover

NHHHHHGGHHH

>>89426838
no all creative teams got picked out of a hat besides one

Bump, pretty good read

>>89411303
Oh man I really like this. For any fan of superhero comics who knows all the creators and their quirks, this is super great. Getting to see what they come up with and how they deal with different situations. I'm so glad this exists!

>>89411457
There wasn't really any animosity as confirmed by Pope in his interview with Newsarama. They really just didn't want people to write Kamandi.

>"At the time, Kamandi was sort of a guarded character. Pretty much everybody wanted to work on Kamandi. And they told me that the marketing structure, which I can now see from working with Macmillan and First Second, you know, you have to know your audience, and they basically said, “you know, the marketing’s not in place for the audience you’re thinking of aiming this project toward.”

>They said, “For us, when we think of all-ages comics, we think of these licensed comics, we have Scooby-Doo and Space Ghost and Bugs Bunny.”

>To me, it was sort of like this realization that it would be very difficult to have this kind of project unfold successfully– and this conversation goes back to 2005 or so, so this is before “New 52” and new editorial directions and all this other stuff."

>"The closest we came to doing the kind of project I was hoping to do was my Adam Strange story in Wednesday Comics. It has all the elements I wanted, the kind of weird verve of those old comics that I love and aspire toward. I consider that all-ages. And that book did really well.

>So there’s no animosity there. And if you read the transcript, especially a line or two that’s taken out of context of the larger discussion, and just focus on a sarcastic, caustic comment…that comment wasn’t intended to be mean-spirited. It wasn’t me hammering my shoe on the table, “We will bury you!” kind of thing."

>And I just wanted to say that, because I have friends at DC, and I don’t like ad hominem attacks. And I don’t want to get into a sparring match when there’s not going to be a winner, you know?

>Nrama: Given what you said about the sarcasm – are you willing to say on the record that no one actually said, “We make comics for 45-year-olds?” Because that’s what’s really been latched onto in these comments.

>Pope: Well, from my recollection, that was pretty much an accurate statement. It was an informal conversation, so there was some humor intended in the delivery, but the clear gist of the statement was, “We’re making comics for adults, we’re marketing comics for adults.”

>I’m almost 45 myself, I read comics, I don’t have any problem with the grim and gritty direction of comics. It’s just that I would like to see a wider spectrum. So my artistic response is to go off and create something entirely new and different, which hopefully has a blend of Kirby and Moebius and all those things I loved as a kid, and which I want to see more of in American comics.

>The reader in my head now is that little kid who loves superheroes and science fiction, 10 or 11, and I wouldn’t give that kid many of the comics that are being published today, outside of Adventure Time or something. So Battling Boy is for them.

>>89423307
No, I was talking about the way he is chained and collared and treated like a pet
Also, this >>89425957

>>89409831

>>89411255
They had 40 pages to tell a story and we are getting an entire multi issue story arc.... Fuck decompression sometimes. This is why comics are dying.

>>89430860
A-are you literally retarded?

>>89430860
the whole point is that a creative time leaves kamandi somewhere and the next team has to take off from there

>>89416345
Buddy was Superman's grandson?

>>89416179
It's almost like ther're trying to emulate Kirby's writing style or something.

>>89409884
Glorious

>>89430297
That's the whole deal about earth A.D.
Animals act like humans and percieve humans as animals or pets.

>>89409831

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>>89411003
>Those elephantmen

>>89409831
RISE, SUPERDEMON.

>>89418955
This

Is this on earth 50?

>>89439177
Earth-51

>>89439240
Yeah, right, I forgot. So yes.

The Bump Challenge

>>89409831

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Posting the Special

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The end

>>89411303
Thank you anon.

>>89412603

>>89442484
I'm glad they finally gave us digitals of #60 and #61. Maybe they'll finally get around to doing the same for 28-59.

>>89410089
>Rover and Kirby
KEEK

>>89415949
>>89410228
>Kirby gets his face ripped off
>"RUN"
what the fuck that's horrifying and awesome

>>89447336
>I'm glad they finally gave us digitals of #60 and #61. Maybe they'll finally get around to doing the same for 28-59.
I hope.

>>89409831
>uploading the unlettered cover with watermark

>>89409831
Yeahhh

>>89449548
King

>>89410704
Fuck yeah. Same

>>89450207
Rise

KAMANDI bump

More people should read this.

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>>89456156
Anybody want to take a road trip to Command D in Dracut MA to buy the next issue?

>>89448244
I know right.

>>89442166

>Demolition Dumpling.

Jack, you madman!

>>89442565

fucking australians

>>89459744
https://youtu.be/Cbbc7UT6XAM

I'd never heard of Kamandi before reading this. It was fun and I look forward to more issues. Though tell me, are all the planet of the apes parallels coincidental?

>>89411255
So far this reads essentially like Ultimate Kamandi, a retelling with the same characters and slightly altered plot.
Not bad, but it has nothing on the original.

>>89461518
In 1966 Thor 135-136 Kirby introduced animal people pretty similar to ones in Kamandi, so at least sme of the ideas were likely kicking around n the king's brain long before Planet of the Apes.

>>89461738
Neato! Thanks

>>89409831
Bump

>>89409831
Thread theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFyCPicGbXM

>>89410089
Kirby must have loved his cigars because every time he is depicted its always with a cigar lmao.

>>89409831

>>89409831

>>89467143
Fuck Yeah

>>89411219
Eaglesman is great

>>89472798
Of course

Never read Kamandi before this, seemed too "Planets of the Apes-y" but reading the Challenge and the special I might just torrent the whole Kirby run.

>>89465769
This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUmCG1MZ1O8

>>89470370

>>89425457
>So Kamandi was educated in virtual reality
That doesn't make any sense. Why would the VR be programmed to have Rat people attack before his education was finished and why would everyone be robots?

>>89484112
>Why would the VR be programmed to have Rat people attack before his education was finished?
Rat people weren't part of the plan. They ambushed before Kamandi eduacion was finish.
>Why would everyone be robots?
Last boy on earth.

I am now shipping Tuftan and Kamandi.

>>89477531
BTBATB was a gift.

>>89410921
THERE we go! Tiger-babe spotted!

>>89484917
I think we all are.

>>89484917
What about Lady Tawna? Wait...the tigers would first have to make peace with the lions.

>>89485119
>BTBATB was a gift.
I miss the show so much.

>>89485504
Good

>>89410423
Kek

>>89410089

WHY AM I READING KAMANDI'S LINES IN FINN'S VOICE?!?

>>89489465

>>89420978
And Kevin Eastman art.

I was guessing he'd find a way to use New Gods, but that's more reasonable.

>>89442670
yoooooo Sandman!