Look, up in the air! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, actually, it’s a dog, because Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton is coming from DC Comics in June.
Written by Ryan North with art by Mike Norton, the five-issue series is set in the main continuity of the DC All In initiative, and will provide done in one short stories with the overarching idea that Krypto is looking for his family.
“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. Krypto tells us who he is and how he’s feeling like all dogs do: through his expressions and behaviour, through body language and barks and snuggles and licks and sighs. Dogs are some of the most expressive animals, and we absolutely love them, and I wanted to tell a story that really captured and honoured these animals—Krypto in particular.”
Added Norton, “I’m always ready for drawing more dogs in comics Krypto is dream project!”
In the series, Krypto begins on Krypton, as Jor-El and Lara decide to test their space travel tech on the Kryptonian dog. When something goes wrong and Krypto is seemingly lost, he actually ends up entering a space-time gateway, and landing on Earth… Days later for him, decades in real time.
And throughout the series, Krypto will search our planet to try to find his family, while teaming up with Kal-El, aka Superman.
“Each issue of this miniseries is a complete short story, combining to tell the full story of Krypto the Superdog” continued North. “Throughout these stories we see Krypto face a strange new world. He travels from town to town, meeting and befriending people, sometimes helping to solve their problems—and sometimes finding problems of his own. He’s a very good dog… Even in the face of evil, Krypto never gives up hope,” concluded North. “He is strong, and he is brave—and brave enough to be kind.”
Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1 features colors by Ian Herring, and will hit stores on June 18. It will feature a main cover by Jae Lee, and a variant by Dustin Nguyen. You can check out the covers, as well as unlettered interior art, below. And click for larger versions.
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