Screen Rant speaks with TomKingTK about tackling the bizarre world and characters of DC's infamous '1st Issue Special' with jfornes74 in the upcoming maxiseries 'Danger Street.'
The world of the 1970s 1st Issue Special comic is being turned into a connected Danger Street story from Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, as the trio will tackle an ambitious new maxiseries for DC Comics. In Danger Street from DC Comics, heroes such as Doctor Fate, Metamorpho, and Lady Cop will star together in the much-anticipated comic book - with the wildly different characters meeting under chaotic circumstances.
When DC Comics put a hardcover of something called 1st Issue Specials in my comps box, and I had never heard of it, I got a little excited. It's like, "What is this? This is something in comics that's new.
Tom King: Yeah, it's a wide range here. I wouldn't call anyone here an A-list character. Doctor Fate was just in a movie, so maybe he's B or C-list. And there's Metamorpho, another character you've heard of. There's the New Gods, for which I was writing a movie for a while. There are some big, heavy hitters and then more obscure characters. My intention in going forward was just to go back to the original material.
There are some characters that surprised me with how cool they were. The Dingbats turned out to be super fun; the interaction between Crunch and Non-Fat and Bananas. Those are such absurd names that even saying them out loud makes me regret that I'm working on this project. But taking them seriously and taking their personality seriously, what Kirby did with them was very cool.
Tom King: I was stealing from the TV show Fargo, which I really loved. What they do on that show is have a bunch of diverse characters who don't seem like they interact with each other at all, and then there's some sort of incident where they all become suddenly bonded, and you realize that each one is a domino that leads to the next one. I loved how they did that. And if you steal from the best, that's a good person to steal from. So, that's how I imagined it.
I was honoring Don Newton and Gerry Conway's New Gods, which is the idea that these gods are also superheroes, and that's why they were in superhero costumes. These are much less forces of nature as they are in Mister Miracle, where they're just metaphors for our life. These are actual characters who have to deal with problems. But it was interesting returning to them.
The actual central story has a really interesting combination of Metamorpho, Starman, and Warlord. What can you say about writing those characters, but specifically their plan? It's one of the most insane missions to try to get the respect of the Justice League that I've ever seen. Tom King: The Creeper was Steve Ditko starting to fall into Ayn Rand hole that he fell into for the rest of his life. Ditko is one of the greatest geniuses that ever entered our industry, both in terms of his writing and his art. But as everyone knows and as I wrote about in Rorschach, he was obsessed with this sort of Randian philosophy.
But as you know, Jorge is not in the minors. He knows how to hit a curveball. The curveball came, he hit it and knocked it out of the park and over the wall. Jorge does that thing that I like best in artists that I work with; people like Mitch [Gerads]/ He takes the utterly absurd and the insane and the crazy of comics, from the swirls of Kirby to the abstraction of Ditko, and he makes it real.
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