Kamandi Challenge #1
The Kamandi Challenge is a DC legacy at this stage and in order to honour Jack Kirby's 100th birthday they put their A-list roster of writers and artists together to bang heads and create more of the series. The original Kamandi was created by comic legend Jack Kirby while he was at DC and spanned around six years of publishing. The series was briefly revived at times after that but never took hold as a standalone title again.
I’ve just read #1 and the Special for the first time and this comic book is to other comic books what Vodka is to Beer. Pure distilled raw adventure is how I would describe it. Kamandi is a teenage boy, the last survivor of the Human Race as we know it discovers he is on a planet that has suffered catastrophe and is now occupied by intelligent animals.
The only other humans are feral and treated like pets by other animals but Kamandi (named for Command D, the bunker he grew up in) is educated by his grandfather and a skilled fighter. This comic is a lot like the serials of old, one adventure after another forcing you to use your imagination at times.
The only other humans are feral and treated like pets by other animals but Kamandi (named for Command D, the bunker he grew up in) is educated by his grandfather and a skilled fighter. This comic is a lot like the serials of old, one adventure after another forcing you to use your imagination at times.Speaking of that A-list roster they have Dan Jurgens (Superman: Lois and Clark/Action Comics), Joe Tomasi (Superman/Detective Comics), Dan Abnett (Aquaman), Scott Tynion IV (Detective Comics/Batman Eternal), Tom King (Batman) and a load of others delivering 12 issues starting 25th of January.
I hope it’s a blast, I enjoyed reading the original so much because it sparked an excitement in my head reading through the adventures of Kamandi.
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