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Z35 DMZ34 DM VOICES MZ32 DMZ33 VOICES D Z31 DMZ30 DM Z 28 MZ29 his month, the war in DMZ comes to Staten Island. That “forgotten borough” is one of the most frequently requested locations I am asked about, in interviews or in person, when people want to know their status in the fictional DMZ world (the others are Hell’s Kitchen, , T and Roosevelt Island – I’ll try to get to everything, eventually). My own personal experience with Staten Island, aside from listening to old Wu-Tang cassettes, is limited to visiting twice, once to scout locations for an ex-girlfriend’s film, and going to a college house party in Brainchild StudioS/nYc St. George. It’s obvious which one I chose to draw upon for DMZ. Y 330 West 38th Street, Suite 904

c Brainchild StudioS/nYc , New York 10018 So in the spirit of the vibe, I asked my collaborators on DMZ to supply me with their ultimate DMZ House Party playlists, or, in the words of p: 212.647.9278 editor Will Dennis, the “ 5 beer drinking/house party/shout along/get fucked up/DMZ rock out mix tape songs... not the sappy ass love songs S u m m e r 2 0 1 0 e: [email protected] that you put on a mix tape for a girl. I’m talking TAKE ME DOWN TO THE HOSPITAL kinda shit here.” You heard the man. Boys?

Visit Brainchild Studios at: (cocreator, artist): JEROMY COX (colorist): BRIAN WOOD: “Hit the Light” – Metallica (because “Where Is My Mind” – Pixies “What’s It All About” – Reducer SF (kind www.brainchildstudiosnyc.com I’m a fucking fat thrasher! – the party “I Don’t Want To Hear It” – Minor Threat of frat-posing-as-punk shit, but great begins) “The Choice Is Yours” – Black Sheep sing-along material, and since it’s a song “Ace of Spades” – Motorhead (because “Add It Up” – Violent Femmes about striking out with women at a bar, Lemmy is the father of all of us – the “Party At Ground Zero” – Fishbone it’s a totem of sorts to play at the start party rocks!) of a night) “Cowboys from Hell” – Pantera (Because “Re-Ignition” – Bad Brains (I would find they are the most powerful metal band little wrong with playing nothing BUT in history – we’re drinking hard) Bad Brains all night long at a party, but “Creep” – Stone Temple Pilots (because I’m maybe that explains why no one ever half the man I used to be–I’m becoming comes to mine) to be too much drunk) “Anything, Anything” – Buckcherry (ok, “Little Wing” – Jimmy Hendrix (because it’s a cover and Dramarama’s version during the night there is a time for love) wins in all other situations, but the “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” – Otis speed and ferocity of Buckcherry’s r e m m u S Redding (because now I want to be makes that beer disappear. Another calm, baby) bad-luck-in-love song)* “Brave Captain” – FIREHOSE (SST – best KRISTIAN DONALDSON (guest artist): record label ever?) “Ace of Spades” – Motorhead “Peace of Mind” – Boston (for those final 0 1 0 2 “Rebel Yell” – Billy Idol moments stumbling over empty cups at “Scenario” – A Tribe Called Quest the end of the night) “Las Cruces Jail” – Two Gallants * “Wrong” – Archers of Loaf, spiritual “Astro Zombies” – The Misfits substitute to be played if/when too (Drink – GUINNESS) many people make fun of you for WILL DENNIS (editor, enabler): Buckcherry. (cover artist): “Rocks Off” – Rolling Stones (from the “Twice As Hard,” “Seeing Things” – Black original get silly drunk record EXILE ON What Would Matty Play? Who knows. I like to Crowes MAIN ST.) kick the poor guy when he’s down, which is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” “Streams of Whiskey” – Pogues (please basically all the time, so I’m going to say he –The Band play this at my funeral) has crap taste in music and probably has “Brownsville Girl,” “When I Paint My “Wasted” – Circle Jerks (’nuff said) Candlebox on his iPod. (DMZ trivia moment – “Masterpiece” – Bob Dylan “Sweet Child O’ Mine” – GnR (’cuz who the logo on Matty’s baseball cap is that of doesn’t want to hear this song Riccardo Burchielli’s heavy metal band). JARED K. FLETCHER (letterer): at some point in the night?) “Boychuker” – Rocket from the Crypt “If Only You Were Lonely” – The “Protect Ya Neck” – Wu-Tang Clan Replacements (best drunken band ever) “Barroom Hero” – Dropkick Murphys “Russian Roulette” – The Spunks “Ain’t No Fun” – NEXT MONTH IN DMZ #36 (if it’s that kinda party, i’ll be swillin’ o.g. coors tallboyz!!!!!) Bio-weapons,Abu Ghraib,“we don’t torture”... a mini global war on terror playing out over a couple square blocks in Staten Island. Next arc in DMZ:“War ” – Parco Delgado’s back, and so is Riccardo, as the DMZ goes sovereign. Now, who needs a beer?

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DC Comics traces its heritage back to NEW FUN COMICS in 1935 but did Then, in 1972, a simple white circle with bold DC initials was introduced. not begin branding itself until its 1940 publications. Presented in a simple The company then modified the logo again in early 1974 to read “The circle, DC’s initial mark on the comics read “A DC Publication.” The “DC” Line of DC Super-Stars.” From late 1975 through most of 1976, the logo referred to , one of the oldest and most popular titles was moved to the center of the cover, anchoring a bar of information published at the time. above the logo. It then moved back to the left corner. DC Comic’s current brand mark, the DC “Spin”, introduced in the summer of 2005. With ’s phenomenal success in the early 1940’s, and to enhance In early 1976, a redesigned DC logo (referred to as the “Bullet”) was potential sales of the other titles in the line, DC changed its mark to read created by noted graphic designer Milton Glaser. It employed evolving “A Superman DC Publication” with late 1941 releases. elements of the past, while establishing a fresh interpretation for the times. This “Bullet” was used up until 2005, becoming the single longest- By 1949, the various businesses that made up DC Comics were formalized running logo in the company’s history. into National Comics, Inc., which was reflected in the logo’s new design that read “Superman–National Comics”. The current DC logo (referred to as the “Spin”), created by Josh Beatman THE DC “SPIN” FEATURED IN LOGOLOUNGE 5 of Brainchild Studios/NYC, continues the evolution of the mark. Reflecting Logolounge 5, Rockport Publisher’s best-selling hardcover series, collects 2,000 award-winning logotypes selected by an international panel By 1970, DC made an attempt to capitalize further on the sales success of DC’s expansion from comics publisher into larger forums for entertainment, of judges from a pool of over 33,000 entries. character–driven titles. The previous NATIONAL mark was retired, replaced the DC logo echoes the company’s new momentum forward, while still with an image of the host title’s character in a circle and a simple “DC” acknowledging DC’s rich history and the mark’s visual legacy. and title identification. DC Comics I Comic-Con International I Vertigo Crime I ?????? DC Comics 5 DC Comics 7 + CRIME =

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Will Eisner Comic Industry Award • 2010

JIM KRUEGER and Has it really been two years since this whole JUSTICE BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN STORY thing started? It only seems like yesterday that I was having a conversation with Alex on a cold September SCRIPT night about the prospect of us working together on this. ABSOLUTE JUSTICE DOUG BRAITHWAITE and ALEX ROSS USTICE starts with a , and I was transfixed — this was better than ART Jfor me it has been a dream to work all the other children’s stories read to me designed by Josh Beatman on. And I suppose you could look at it as so far in my short life! The strange thing is something I have been practicing for my I have no recollection of what issue it was whole life. I’m sure everyone reading this — the only thing I can remember was LETTERIING has a memory of their first experience of the image of Superman flying through comic books. My own is when I was about outer space, towing a line of planets with and Curtis King three or four years old. My dad would a gigantic chain. ALEX ROSS take me with him when he went to the newsagents to buy his newspaper. In the After this early introduction to the world COVERS COVERS corner of the shop was a spin rack filled of superheroes, I was obsessed with with comic books. That comic rack drew attempting to draw them and, seeing my me like a magnet, and one character in par- interest, the teachers at my infant’s school ticular grabbed my attention. I’m not sure gave me a big canvas to work on — when whether it was the red and blue costume they allowed me to paint superheroes or the flowing cape that attracted me, all over one of the walls of the school! or maybe it was the strange emblem on I remember reading the of his chest — the ‘S’ symbol on Superman America when I was about seven, and one looked to me like two yellow fish swimming issue in particular made a huge impression round each other. I remember my dad look- on me — issue #137, Superman versus ing over at me at the rack, then he let me Shazam. The image on the cover of those choose a comic, a choice based purely on two going head to head, one of them gone JUSTICE VOLUME TWO Published by DC Comics. Cover and compilation copyright © 2007 DC Dan DiDio Senior VP-Executive Editor • Joey Cavalieri Editor-original series • Michael Wright Associate Editor-original series what I saw as I hadn’t yet been taught to bad, was mind-blowing to me. It is still Comics. All Rights Reserved. Originally published in single magazine form Anton Kawasaki Editor-collected edition • Robbin Brosterman Senior Art Director • President & Publisher in JUSTICE #5-8Copyright © 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. All Georg Brewer VP-Design & DC Direct Creative • Senior VP-Creative Director • Patrick Caldon Executive read. When we got home, I settled down amazing for me to realize, thirty-odd years characters, their distinctive likenesses and related elements featured in VP-Finance & Operations • Chris Caramalis VP-Finance • John Cunningham VP-Marketing • Terri Cunningham VP-Managing Editor this publication are trademarks of DC Comics. The stories, characters and Stephanie Fierman Senior VP-Sales & Marketing • Alison Gill VP-Manufacturing • Hank Kanalz VP-General Manager, WildStorm next to dad and he read the comic to me later, that I’m involved in creating similar incidents featured in this publication are entirely fictional. DC Comics does Jim Lee Editorial Director-WildStorm • Paula Lowitt Senior VP-Business & Legal Affairs • MaryEllen McLaughlin not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories or artwork. VP-Advertising & Custom Publishing • John Nee VP-Business Development • Gregory Noveck Senior VP-Creative Affairs — complete with all the sound effects! imagery in JUSTICE. Cheryl Rubin Senior VP-Brand Management • Jeff Trojan VP-Business Development, DC Direct • Bob Wayne VP-Sales DC Comics, 1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Company Printed in Canada. First Printing. ISBN: Volume Two Cover by Alex Ross. Publication design by Brainchild Studios/NYC.

THE WILL EISNER AWARDS

WHAT HAS FROM BRUCE WAYNE’S PRIVATE FILES The WILL EISNER AWARDS, considered the “Oscars” of IN THE BATCOMPUTER COME BEFORE SUPERMAN the comic industry, honor its best and brightest each year It Begins with a dream...or rather a nightmare. he world’s vilest villains all wake identities of the , and more of the T up from the same feverish glimpse JLA falls by their hand. The Ultra-Humanite of a possible near-future: one where the makes the believe combined might of the fabled Justice he is being consumed by his greatest at a gala held in San Diego, during Comic-Con League of America is not enough to save weakness…fire. The finds the world from total himself being taken over by an uncontrol- disaster. Humanity lable force that rips himself apart. Green . . .knowing that he would use his superb talent to bring the has relied too much Lantern is transported far away via a on its heroes, and has boom tube by Sinestro. All our stories somehow involve the loss of parents at some point in our lives. International, the largest and popular culture become too weak to and become victims of But SUPERMAN lost far more than that. He is the last surviving member of an alien The compulsion to draw stayed with me, at the age of 15. Two years later after pencils to life, in a way all his own, made me secure in the defend itself. So now Scarecrow and . The despite the obvious distractions of sports attending classes at the London Cartoon . . .Jor-El and his wife race from a planet called , a world he has learned collapsed at its core due the greatest criminal attacks at a women’s and girls (and not necessarily in that order). Centre, Marvel gave me my first paid work. knowledge that what we were producing would be something to its people’s abuses of its natural resources. Moments before its destruction, minds on Earth have conference. The targets Lara, sent their son It sounds obsessive I know, but in my early I’ve been in it for the long haul since then Superman’s parents, Jor-El and his wife Lara, sent their son in an experimental decided that the only and Hawkwoman at the teens, it was quite usual for me to sit up and I have to thank goodness for some of we could all be proud of. in an experimental spacecraft to find new life and safety across the universe on a small planet known event in the Hemisphere. way to save the world museum they work in. Ray Palmer, the as Earth. A childless couple, , found the crashed craft and child within. until 3am drawing stuff — most of it super- the older guys in the business, people like is by taking down , is shot in the shoulder. The spacecraft to find They never reported the or the orphan to the authorities, but instead, heroes. My intention was to go to Art the late, great Archie Goodwin and the the members of the finds that he can’t stop running. And believing their prayers for a child had been answered, raised the boy as their College, but it didn’t work out that way genius Al Williamson — both of whom had lives most of us never do: I don’t know artwork is delivered. And believe it or not, new life and safety Justice League…one Superman is overwhelmed by the own, naming him . because a teacher happened to see some faith in me at a time when my classic about you but being a super-fit specimen as I’m writing this, I don’t know how this by one. combined forces of , Solomon across the universe of my drawings in the back of style of drawing wasn’t so fashionable. will — for me anyway — continue to be a whole story pans out. I haven’t seen the Grundy, Metallo and the Parasite. While he seems almost invulnerable by human standards, his major physiological my schoolbook and he said the words that I suppose the result of that faith was when , and in reality, very few of us have final script — I didn’t want to. This way I on a small planet The first hero to fall is weakness, ironically, is the shattered remnants of his home planet, Krypton. probably got me where I am today: “You Alex, someone who I had long admired, the guts to take on the job of fighting the respond to the story as much as I did as a , thanks to And once the World’s Greatest Heroes are known as Earth. This Kryptonite, depending on quantity and exposure, will kill Superman. know, you could do that for a living.” I had asked me to pencil JUSTICE. bad guys. The one thing we may get the kid. So, it’s still a dream — I just hope there’s the deadly . Taken to the defeated, the villains present their plan of never dreamt of that as an option for me, chance to experience is to fly, free as a a seven year-old out there who is inspired villain group’s underwater base, the King changing the world to the Earth’s popula- Superman was adopted. Perhaps that is what has determined his course in this as the comics I loved were produced in And you know, after 20 years in the busi- bird, but even that will remain the dream by JUSTICE to live his dream one day too. THE ORIGINAL JUSTICE HARDCOVERS of the Seas is subject to experiments by tion. Accusing the heroes of being absent world. This has formed his primary sense of hope, even after destruction. He America, which may as well have been ness, I still get an enormous kick out of we dream only when we are asleep. the alien Brainiac. Meanwhile, the villains and unable to make the real changes believes that this world can be changed to a better one. But this hope may be a a million miles away as I had no way of drawing the characters I loved as a kid. It’s DOUG BRAITHWAITE begin to change the world around them needed for a better society, the villains weakness to him just as Kryptonite is. He has taken a human disguise, operating getting there. However, with help from the the best job in the world as far as I’m con- orking on JUSTICE has allowed November, 2006 in dramatic ways that the JLA couldn’t or build “perfect” cities without disease or amongst us as a reporter for the in . That is how he same teacher, Steve Medway, I ended up cerned: it tests the skills I’ve been working me to pay tribute to all those who W wouldn’t — as desert wastelands bloom poverty, and invite the people who they’ve remains aware of world events and is able to be anywhere, almost at any time. walking into the Marvel UK office in London on virtually all my life, but it’s not just about worked on the classic J.L.A. of my child- & THE ABSOLUTE EDITION with life, people with disabilities walk again, cured to live in them. It’s looking like there’s the art, it’s about the things these super- hood and the story Jim and Alex have put and world hunger has an end in sight. no hope left for the Justice League. His alien-inherited physiology enables him to fly. All his senses are heightened to the heroes represent for all of us. Yes they’re together is as gripping as they ever were to degree that they can be used offensively as well as defensively. And those bullets Yes they’re superheroes, superheroes, and yes, they have special me back then. Pencilling the great scripts Working on JUSTICE has allowed me But the criminals’ deeds are not entirely But they’re not the only heroes left in the he chooses not to outrace bounce off him. Not like us. Not like the people of Earth. powers, but equally we can relate to them Jim has produced has probably been the altruistic, as they discover the secret world… Still, he is similar to us in that Superman’s compassion is both a strength and weak- and yes, they have special powers, because they’re just like people we’ve biggest challenge of my career so far — to pay tribute to all those who worked ness. There is not a day that he does not risk his very life, unheeding the cost, for known all our lives. We know them, warts I know I have never worked so hard in those who need him most. While his physiology makes him an alien, he is a human, but equally we can relate to them and all, and we respond to them knowing my life. Then to hand on the work to Alex, on the classic J.L.A. of my childhood almost frustratingly so. both sides of the coin. We have the writers knowing that he would use his superb because they’re just like people to thank for that relationship with the char- talent to bring the pencils to life, in a way and the story Jim and Alex have Justice, a 3-volume hardcover series acters. I marvel that a writer of Jim’s talent all his own, made me secure in the knowl- we’ve known all our lives. can make you empathize with them and that what we were producing would put together is as gripping as they in the next breath make you think they’re be something we could all be proud of. utter jerks. I love the fact that in the writing It’s great that the fans are excited by the ever were to me back then. the characters reflect the problems we all series. But they are not the only ones — was designed by Brainchild Studios/ have in relating to others, whether it is our you wouldn’t believe the excitement friends, family, colleagues or lovers. But generated in our house every time a most of all I love the fact that they live the package of Alex’s completed painted NYC. These hardcover books were later adapted to DC’s Absolute format, where additional never-before-seen materials were FROM BRUCE WAYNE’S PRIVATE FILES IN THE BATCOMPUTER BIOGRAPHIES

added to produce the spectacular slipcased POISON IVY JIM KRUEGER was a creative director at before eventually leaving to become a freelance writer/property creator. Some of his comics work includes The Clock Maker and for , PAMELA ISLEY is insane, dangerously so. Due to this, she cannot be dealt The Matrix Comics for Burlyman Entertainment, and Foot Soldiers, Galactic and for . with by appealing solely to her mind. This is the mistake, I believe, of so many Krueger has also collaborated with artist Alex Ross on numerous projects for Marvel, including Earth X, Universe X modern psychological treatments. We are far more complex than any one and Paradise X. Besides writing for comics, Krueger is also a filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced the short edition. In April 2010, Absolute Justice was system of thought can claim to understand. film They Might Be Dragons (which was awarded "Best Short Film" at The New York Independent Film Festival), directed Eleven for RIPFEST 2006, and is preparing to direct his first feature. He has also just finished his first novel, She became a criminal because of love, or what many mistake for it. The Frankincense Monster and Other Haunted Christmas Stories. Krueger is president and publisher of his own Isley came from a rich family and had what would be considered a normal entertainment company, 26 Soldiers. upbringing. In college, she majored in botany and fell in love with her professor. Her teacher fooled her with promises of love and marriage, nominated for BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN, and tricked her into stealing from a local museum’s new Egyptian exhibit. ALEX ROSS studied illustration at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then honed his craft as a storyboard artist before entering the comics field. His miniseries Marvels (Marvel Comics, 1993) created a wider What she stole was an urn containing ancient poisonous herbs. But the acceptance for painted comics. He moved on to produce the equally successful KINGDOM COME (DC Comics, herbs, intended to poison and kill Isley, instead mixed with her unique 1996). Receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards for these best-selling works, Ross made a name as both an physiology, changing her, transforming her, making her immune to all poisons. artist and storyteller, dedicating himself to bold experiments within the comics medium. With a miniseries for Vertigo an extremely competitive category, amongst Her sex appeal is now a weapon that she uses against all men, usually through the (, 1997), several projects for Marvel Comics (Earth X, Universe X and Paradise X), and six oversized use of poisonous lipstick. My refusal to graphic novels focusing on DC’s iconic characters (collected in THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER-HEROES), he be manipulated by her allure has only continues to bring comics to a broader audience. In 2003, Ross was the subject of a ten-year retrospective of his caused her hatred of me to grow. work for DC Comics, Mythology (Pantheon Books), written and designed by . He is currently continuing the company of the industry’s most creative. The winning work on the 12-part maxiseries JUSTICE for DC. Alex Ross lives in Illinois. Her immunity to poison and her wild femininity are not her only weapons. In fact, these abilities DOUG BRAITHWAITE hails from London, England, and broke into the comics industry at the age Absolute Justice are nothing compared to her of only 17 when he did work for Marvel UK. Soon he was working for comics companies in America, where his first announcement was made at Comic-Con International on intelligence and knowledge assignment was pencilling an issue of DC Comics’ . From there, Braithwaite’s elegant pencilling of plant life. She commands style has graced many of DC’s top-tier characters, including Superman, , Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, and is capable of manipu- and the JLA. He was also a penciller on Marvel’s series. His first collaboration with Jim Krueger and lating the very life form Alex Ross was for Marvel’s Universe X and Paradise X, where he ended up pencilling nearly every Marvel necessary for every character. He continues to work on JUSTICE for DC. July 23, 2010. creature on Earth to breathe. That alone makes her one of the most dangerous beings alive.

The original cover to Justice #2 and several interior spreads.

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PETER J.TOMASI HANK KANALZ Assistant Editor-original miniseries VP-General Manager,WildStorm TABLE OF CONTENTS ANTON KAWASAKI LILLIAN LASERSON Editor-collected edition Senior VP & General Counsel

ROBBIN BROSTERMAN JIM LEE 6 THE NEW BARDS: An Introduction by Elliot S. Maggin Senior Art Director Editorial Director-WildStorm 10 CHAPTER ONE: Strange Visitor PAUL LEVITZ PAULA LOWITT 58 CHAPTER TWO: Truth and Justice President & Publisher Senior VP-Business & Legal Affairs 110 CHAPTER THREE: Up in the Sky GEORG BREWER DAVID MCKILLIPS 158 CHAPTER FOUR: Never-Ending Battle VP-Design & DC Direct Creative VP-Advertising & Custom Publishing 206 EPILOGUE: … RICHARD BRUNING JOHN NEE Senior VP-Creative Director VP-Business Development 216 MEMORIAL: Keys to Original Covers

PATRICK CALDON GREGORY NOVECK 218 FROM HERE TO KINGDOM COME: Mysteries Unveiled, Senior VP-Creative Affairs Executive VP-Finance & Operations Secrets Revealed by KINGDOM COME CHRIS CARAMALIS CHERYL RUBIN 222 ICONS OF VIRTUE by Alex Ross VP-Finance Senior VP-Brand Management 223 SKETCHBOOK: Norman McCay JOHN CUNNINGHAM JEFF TROJAN VP-Marketing VP-Business Development, DC Direct 224 The Spectre 225 The League TERRI CUNNINGHAM BOB WAYNE VP-Managing Editor VP-Sales 241 A Silent Cavalry

STEPHANIE FIERMAN 259 Titans Senior VP-Sales & Marketing 267 Wild Cards 277 A New Breed 293 GENESIS: Developmental Art by Alex Ross 301 KEYS TO : An Annotated Guide

Published by DC Comics. Cover, introductions and compilation copyright © 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. 307 GALLERY Originally published in single magazine form in KINGDOM COME #1-4. Copyright © 1996 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. All characters, their 326 EVOLUTION: The Development of the Orion Pages distinctive likenesses and related elements featured in this publication are trademarks of DC Comics. The stories, characters and incidents Dedicated to featured in this publication are entirely fictional. DC Comics does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories or artwork. 328 TESTAMENTS: A Checklist of Kingdom Come Appearances DC Comics, 1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 CHRISTOPHER REEVE KINGDOM COMECOME 334 DC DIRECT GALLERY A Warner Bros. Entertainment Company who makes us believe that a man can fly. Mark Waid Alex Ross Printed in China. First Printing 336 GENERATIONS: A Kingdom Come Genealogy ISBN: 1-4012-0768-5. 338 CURTAIN CALL: The Kingdom Come Cast with Todd Klein ISBN 13: 978-1-4012-0768-7. Slipcase and cover art by Alex Ross. 339 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & BIOGRAPHIES KINGDOM COME font created by Alex Ross & Todd Klein. Publication design by Brainchild Studios/NYC.

In , heros are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — 340 WITNESS TO THE END by Clark Norman Ross some that have existed or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. DC COMICS, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

I BELIEVE IN SUPERMAN. FOR REAL. I REALLY BELIEVE IN WONDER WOMAN, SO HELP ME. Bard and I had maybe a dozen tribution years later. Like twenty in the lives of Superman, Captain IF WE WERE TO PEEK IN ON THE LIVES I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS. I BELIEVE THAT MEN little germs of ideas packed under or so years later. Marvel,Wonder Woman, Batman OF THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON. I BELIEVE THAT my scalp. I’d try this one on him. and the others, when they learn IN GENERATIONS TO COME, EVERY PASSOVER ELIJAH THE PROPHET COMES OVER I’d toss him that one. I’d pitch him Jeph has never that they are not SURELY WE WOULD THINK WE WERE another one. Some of them he suffered, I don’t gods. And it is FOR A SIP OF WINE. liked; some of them he didn’t. believe, for my about the time in GAZING UPON OLYMPUS. Some of them inspired ideas of inconsiderable their lives when the Bard’s own; some of them oversight, and in finally they learn of good against evil, of course, but maybe twelve or thirteen and I made him snort or snore. By the fact has always that despite their more than that. There are clashes was a student at this college and end of a couple of hours — they been my friend. limitations they the meta- f we were to peek in on the of judgment, clashes among Jeph’s stepdad was a big mucka- were a loud, He’s done well, must be potent human race. Ilives of the people of the different interpretations of what muck at the college and stepdad intense cou- too. With his and responsible It is the source Earth in generations to come, is good and of what is , and and I made friends. I went over to SO I WENT ple of hours, buddy Matthew anyway. Now is of conflict surely we would think we were clashes over who is to suffer the stepdad’s house for dinner one as hours I he wrote the first the time in the life throughout gazing upon Olympus. And of wages of the evil born of our best day and Jeph and I got to talking TO GOTHAM spent with great super-hero of the human race the story. And course, again, we would be wrong. intentions. This is a love story. there about our common ground: TO SEE THE the Bard of movie of the when all of us need the story’s They are our children, our grand- This is a story of hatred and rage. our mutual love for super-heroes BARD AND I Bards always modern period, to learn these same synthesis is children and our successors who This is the Iliad. This is a story and their stories. We came up would be Commando with things. That is why the realization of how we — we ourselves; you with a nifty story over mom and HAD MAYBE A — I was , and lots this story, despite its garish pri- that this THE NEW BARDS and I — choose to use whatever stepdad’s dinner table. See, I’d DOZEN LITTLE emotionally of other great stuff. And one day mary-colored clothing, distinction special powers just sold my first GERMS OF exhausted later on I was editor of Jeph’s first is an important one. is false. As AN INTRODUCTION and abilities we comic-book IDEAS PACKED and still he comic-book series of his own, clearly as it I, like Mark and Alex, have to have, when even script, a Green wanted to an eight-issue masterpiece with The heroes of fable and fact to another hero, \bºy Elliot S. Maggin believe in heroes. I do. I believe those powers and Arrow story called UNDER MY hear more. Tim Sale called CHALLENGERS OF whose virtue we all aspire are not Mahatma Gandhi, asserted that in Superman. For real. I really abilities are only “What Can One SCALP. So I dredged THE UNKNOWN. Now he writes only colorful people leading vivid he is a Hindu as well as a Muslim believe in Wonder Woman, so a little bit beyond Man Do?” and I up this idea for Hollywood and he writes for lives; they traditionally understand — as well as a Christian, a Jew or help me. I believe in Santa Claus. those of mortal had a problem. about what DC and Marvel and he’s happy the value of human life in all its a Buddhist if that becomes I believe that men have walked men. This is a I had a meeting might happen if the Guardians and he’s still my friend, and now places and conditions. But real-life appropriate — so do we learn on the moon. I believe that every story about truth soon with Julius came calling on Superman with I get to make this right too. heroes, unlike many of the icons here that the most ordinary n the waning moments of In the story that you hold in time in the history of civilization Passover Elijah the prophet comes obscured, justice Schwartz, the the tiniest little criticism of how we have created, also understand among us are heroes, and the Ithe twentieth century, the your hands, Mark Waid and is to find a way to confront it over for a sip of wine. I believe in deferred and the Bard of Bards, to he was going oday there human dignity and human most colorful and vivid among super-hero is Everyman. Alex Ross tell us that our proper responsibly. Not modestly. Not metaphors. Metaphors are real. American way see whether I was about his job. Tare new immortality, and these are us are quite ordinary and flawed. unself-consciously. Not with faith That is why the Scriptures are distorted in the a one-trick pony Now you’re talking bards and new concepts that are lacking in, for It is a conclusion to which our will surely stride the Earth as Look at the way we live: traveling in a power greater than ours to composed not only of the hands of petty or I could do this resh stuff, the old stories. Not long example, Superman’s education. new bards lead us as elegantly titans in those days, wearing over the Earth at astounding WE HAVE descend from the sky and set proverbs and prophecies that semanticists. sort of thing man let me know. ago Mark and Alex Heroes especially need to under- and precisely as Socrates led our own features and our own speeds with unimaginable ease; AN OBLIGATION things right despite our best Pastor McCay, in the pages that again. I had to come up with a He got excited. went to Gotham to stand the value of the things of a us through an argument or shortcomings. They are our communicating instantly at TO UNDERSTAND efforts to screw up. We have an follow, spouts in involuntary Super-hero stories — whether hit-it-outta-the-park idea for a He yanked people see Dan Raspler — life: its artifacts, its ideas, its loves. Pythagoras led us through a messengers to that resplendent will with people in the farthest obligation to know who we are reflex; but that is why those their vehicle is through comic Superman story or else spend in the from the who, it seems to It is the markers you leave along geometric proof. future. And they will bring with corners of the ; engineering THE and where we are and what we Scriptures surround and books or otherwise — are today the next three years in law hall and made me, was just a that road that define you. It is the them into their time whatever economies, driving environ- RAMIFICATIONS can do. We have an obligation to embrace those pronouncements the most coherent manifestation school. I guess I told Jeph a few me repeat the smart, ambitious trees a man plants, the children he ven super-heroes need to values and iconography that we mental forces, working wonders. OF THE THINGS understand the ramifications of in stories — the allegories and of the popular unconscious. of my ideas and I guess Jeph told idea for them. kid last time I saw raises and the stories he tells that Egrow. We know that now. have to offer them today. Here If a person from only a hundred WE DO, the things we do, and to choose metaphors — that teach us our They’re stories not about gods, me a few of his. And Jeph came him and then signify his life. It is the palaces a When you read KINGDOM COME, in the pages that follow is an years or so in the past could to do them — or not — with our values. Here before you is a clash but about the way humans wish up with this thing he called “Why I called the story became a big people build, the heritage they you will too. admirable start.To cite the look in on our lives, that person AND TO CHOOSE eyes open. themselves to be; ought, in fact, Must There Be a Superman?” It “Must There Be muckamuck like inspire, the art they create that sentiment of another old friend would suppose that we were TO DO THEM to be. They’re the successors to was about the Guardians of the a Superman?” and Jeph’s stepdad — makes their civilization. I’ve been whom I miss (And if you travel not mortals, but gods. He would — OR NOT — That is what KINGDOM COME the stories that once came from Universe planting a new idea in Saint Curt and Murphy drew it to sell Dan on an idea about what trying to tell Superman for years west anytime, Alan, come find be bowled over by what the is about. the hoedown and the campfire Big Blue’s head. The idea was and it made me happy and I put the world would be like if all the that he mustn’t just save lives, he me, will you?):This is an imaginary most ordinary among us could WITH OUR EYES and the wandering bard. We — that maybe, in his zeal to preserve the words in Superman’s mouth super-heroes were to retire and has to spit-polish the real estate story…aren’t they all? do with a car or light switch or OPEN. THAT IS As I write this, I am completing all of us — come up with these life and ease the path of the pretty much steadily for the next their children, grandchildren and too. He’s never understood that. an automatic teller machine. WHAT a novel — about a hundred stories all the time around dorms human race, Superman was fifteen years and never went to successors generally turn out He never got it until Mark and This is the way many of us have KINGDOM COME thousand words, one strung after and carpools and along cafeteria keeping ordinary everyday good law school. And I swear I did not to be schmucks. Alex told him. They got through — Elliot S! Maggin always looked upon our super- the other without pictures other lines at work and at school. humans from growing on their have a clue where the idea had to him, finally, and for that I’m heroes — as though they were IS ABOUT. than the occasional free-standing Here’s one: own. Maybe he was killing the come from. Who knows where The theme of “Must There Be a proud of them. Where the Wind Hits Heavy gods. Our person from a lost illustration by Alex Ross — butterfly by helping it out of the ideas come from anyway? I didn’t Superman?,” that of another New Year’s, 1997 century would be wrong about response to the inexorable called KINGDOM COME. It is an I have a friend named Jeph. chrysalis. Not for sure, but just remember — still don’t remem- life, is the theme the new bards of In KINGDOM COME, Mark and us, of course, but no more wrong march of progress that has elaboration in prose of the story You know Jeph. I was maybe maybe. That was Jeph’s idea. ber, in fact, but I believe Jeph — KINGDOM COME continue. Maybe Alex draw a dichotomy between than we are about our heroes. brought us to this place and that follows. In order to write nineteen or twenty and he was So I went to Gotham to see the until Jeph told me about his con- complete. It is about the time the human race and what we call

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SUPERMAN EVOLUTION TESTAMENTS Each page of KINGDOM COME went through various stages of production A CHECKLIST OF KINGDOM COME APPEARANCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORION PAGES and development. The first stage (not pictured here) was the preliminary To get to the personal roots of the character, I wanted to illustrate the farmer’s son, revisited in outline. This summarized an entire sequence from the story. Consulting his later years, after he had removed himself from the super-hero business for a time. His gray The KINGDOM COME series proved to be so popular that it spawned a novelization (and an audio book of with the editors, Dan Raspler and , Mark then wrote a detailed temples extend into his beard and long hair, betraying a sense of his surrendering to his age. said novel), numerous items of merchandise, and a semi-sequel in 1999 that actually took place in current-day script which paced the story by breaking down the While I played up the carpenter role as well for its obvious symbolism, the bare-armed, DC continuity, planting the seeds for KINGDOM COME’s possible future. Not only that, but a number of other contents of each page. The dialogue and the setup workman look for Superman is one of his earliest, coming partly from the 1942 creators were so inspired that they introduced, into their own books, characters, concepts and/or designs that for each and every panel were presented in text for George Lowther novel and many pre-costume drawings by Shuster. first appeared in the KINGDOM COME miniseries. Alex to then visually represent.

A partial list of the most notable K.C.-related appearances, references and merchandise follows. (For DC Direct product, see pages 334-335). Before producing full-size artwork, Alex drew small thumbnail roughs which allowed him to work out compositional problems. This provided an opportunity for all involved to check the pacing of 1996 SUMMER NOVEMBER the story prior to producing the actual finished art. Kingdom Come Extra — A limited-edition SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF #1,000,000 THUMBNAIL ROUGH trading card set is released by Fleer/SkyBox. — The Metal Men combine to form Alloy. Once all notes, modifications, and approvals were (actual size: 3 1/8”x 4 15/16”) An example of one of the received, the thumbnail images were transferred onto Kingdom Come T-Shirt I — A T-shirt from many photo references used DECEMBER oversize boards that eventually became the finished Graphitti Designs featuring an original by the artist. illustration by Alex Ross is released (see #143 — The Kingdom Come Kid artwork. Copies pages 324-325). Flash () makes a modern-day of the pencilled art in-continuity appearance. were made in order for Peter Tomasi to 1997 FALL Make no mistake. map out the placement of the word JLA ANNUAL #1 — The Brain Trust makes a 1999 FEBRUARY This is not, in its strictest balloons. (Note the differences between current day appearance in a backup story. JLA/TITANS #3 — Victor Stone, a.k.a. Cyborg, sense,“director’s cut” the script and the art, which necessitated adopts his Kingdom Come “Robotman” look material. These aren’t a reorganization of the placement of the 1998 JANUARY in this story. rediscovered “missing word balloons within the various panels.) #15 — , Arsenal, THE KINGDOM #1 — The first issue of a pages” that somehow The balloon placements were then sent adopts a “Red Arrow”-inspired costume. multiple-part “5th-week event” of one-shots, got lost behind Alex’s to Todd Klein, the letterer, so he could featuring a storyline set in present-day filing cabinet on create and letter the word balloons FEBRUARY continuity. The villainous Gog threatens to Tuesday. They do, from the script. In most cases, lettering NEW YEAR’S EVIL: GOG #1 — The first annihilate Superman by killing him over however, comprise a is done directly on the art board. For appearance and origin of Gog (whom we learn and over again as he works his way back sequence Alex had KINGDOM COME, as with most painted raises from childhood) is explored in a through time. envisioned painting books, the finished lettering was placed one-shot written as part of a “5th-Week” event THE KINGDOM: #1 from very early on: Orion on acetate overlays. in DC Comics’ publishing schedule focusing THE KINGDOM: #1 on Apokolips, having on villains. THE KINGDOM: #1 — usurped his father Alex then rendered the images with ’s son is introduced as the title hero. ’s throne. gouache paints. First, he did a mono- MARCH THE KINGDOM: PLANET KRYPON #1 chromatic black & white stage to fully Kingdom Come (Warner/Aspect) — a 352-page THE KINGDOM: SON OF THE BAT #1 Alex never lost the detail all the forms, and then he novelization is released written by Elliot S. THE KINGDOM #2 — The concept of desire to paint this transparently layered over the color . Superman’s design was certainly the starting point Maggin, which is an adaptation of KINGDOM “” is introduced. image, not even after Some opaque of the entire series’ look. If I wasn’t as inspired by his COME by Mark Waid & Alex Ross. (striking though it might be) we could find no room for it within the strict page count of the original monthly painting and - appearance, the rest of the characters would have Kingdom Come: Audio Dramatization (Time MARCH series. The elbow room of an expanded collected edition, however, gave Alex the opportunity to indulge brushed lighting held no interest for me. Fortunately DC allowed me Warner Audio Books) — an audio version of the THE FLASH #146 — The Kingdom Come himself — and you. effects were also to hark back to the classic Shuster-style broad body above book adapted by John Whitman. Kid Flash returns for the “Chain Lightning” used. The letter- and bone structure with the wide head, short hair Approximately three hours in length and storyline, and stays until issue #149. But what to make of this after-the-fact sequence? We didn’t even know where to put it within the narrative ing and painted (a big request at the time) and a constant squint. featuring a full-cast recording, this audio SUPERBOY #60 — Gog makes a cameo appear- until using Orion suggested Orion’s brother-of-sorts, Mr. Miracle, Super-Escape Artist. How could we use art were then dramatization also featured guest voices such ance in the beginning of a multipart storyline him? Well...who better to design an inescapable gulag? Would Superman think of that? Not necessarily... combined and I was heavily influenced by the Fleischer cartoon as Mark Waid, KINGDOM COME’s editor and where Superboy explores Hypertime. but Orion would suggest it if Superman were to come to Apokolips asking to use the planet as a prison, sent to the features based on Joe Shuster’s designs, with his assistant editor Dan Raspler and Peter Tomasi, WONDER WOMAN #142 — Wonder Woman’s a dumping ground. Still, the Last Son of Krypton would never suggest uprooting natives from their home- separator to old-fashioned “S”logo on a black . This same In the earliest visual concepts for this project I was humanity as he could, and aging naturally would novelization editor Charles Kochman, Batman Kingdom Come “eagle armor” is shown on world. However, given where we were in the story just before gulag construction began, Superman would produce the look can be found in a few other places in the early aiming in the Frank Miller/DARK KNIGHT RETURNS offset his more godlike attributes. My version of editor/writer Dennis O’Neil, Executive Editor display in her Wonder Dome. She continues absolutely consult with Orion, the ultimate Dog of War. In fact, their conversation would allow us a chance finished comic comics themselves and always stood out to me as a direction, where Superman hadn’t aged in 20 years. Superman was the most satisfying visual and , and other members of DC’s staff. to wear the armor in battle on occasion. to touch upon something missing from our original series: Superman’s inability to comprehend the dark PENCIL ARTWORK page. dramatic way to go with the design. The stylistic As others had pointed out to me, my drawings emotional accomplishment of KINGDOM COME potential of his own power... (actual size:11 1/8”x 17 1/2”) change I brought to the letter is meant to show the already gave him a time-worn, weathered look. It to me, as he stands out as the most compelling OCTOBER APRIL FINISHED PAINTED ART passage of time. As it has changed since 1938, it could occurred to me that it better suited the character to figure I’ve ever illustrated. JLA ANNUAL #2 — Magog makes a very THE FLASH 80-PAGE GIANT #2 — The Kingdom — Mark Waid (the finished version of this page further transform into the simplest graphic possible. experience as many of the humbling aspects of brief . Come Kid Flash is featured in a story. can be found on page 105)

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from his bones anyway. Ann would eat you alive.” n n of the Viking Age, coming up on the first thousand i o i d kept us on the path. to be too much drunk) “Anything, Anything” – Buckcherry (ok, house into a bar and grill that serves more brands of beer t e n giants from the Cloud Kingdoms on their side, Fabletown n

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(You may wish ring with Killer, he’s not really them to find out.) new. It was invented in the 1820s.) You’ll lim m hat in reTvIiPewSin e, o•f ParEtnAcou•rage Fotra joints abnedthkheayve. Figures to RODNEY THE ROBOT oes S part s”?aTctors TEACHINbGy are simpbleginning poltyogsoenlesc.ted body ould they them as data hat d it get polygons Pensp, postleyungdcoienlsnstosr tmhaerkers Sheets•of unlianbeoduwthite paper aot fwsides readings anedtcu.ses moving at all? That’s right—the need two plain white index cards, a straw W al as swn as Reviews wthiatth mea•ns thamt oerneable numbtehr up thetops.epnrosvoirde younger students with packets of pre-cut strips.) as re Aeklineo student “Simple”the bones forctohmeputer picks ive us are quadrilaterals, govne. This is an is is nk th Tell Scissotros othripnakpaerbocuuttter named a tfotourgside actopr—olymo people who made this film put and some tape. “Th ts thi dstupdaertnts. ask thleinme segments. means alelosware fwficituhl 2fig. uPruet—thtehestvrirptsuoaifnleacshtack and staple them together at one end. uden Arwldiathn andor more muscles thatsid figeurtehdsei animated a drawing I). together a whole series of CAN STAND UP do st Parltwo by three anhdt“calnosdedt”he - trianglesm, ak includes imagery (CG is, virtua formed to stanodthueprr, ig poly aesskare that Placenethreatsetadck on a surface in front of you with the unstapled end the figduaryes A themcross each draw the to the quiszi,d a cheaortf computer-ge still pictures of Slim (called HERE’S WHAT TO DO: ween closseodme do not youtheir answers creaexteampl of yarn bet will e we After theywahtetnempt can can closest to youa. ball “frames”)—each orld lirnheasvegmentsm to move. it TstEarAtedCHING TIPSand and muSstculedse.nts TED with real w that th—eo the up where mshoarpeeasbout bones ELA groups student the istinc will end research dtoiffleraernnt wn as its name. Rsmal3l. Trace or draw tahertf.irOstnefigure from the activity sheet at the of which STEP 1. Draw a picture of Slim’s face TO A CHALLENGE. less d ipnet?ncil to do somteake many Before stud(kennots begin to reasnedarch the parts wofork in ome that aytopuor them can polygons IpTroYgressive student is just a (or something else if you prefer) at the bec ed th a polygon part some students TIoVfunstapled ehnidnkotfhtehenefxirtst strip of paper. Trace or draw the second reach that that while the eye, askantdhaenmgletso identify pHaarvtse of the eye thaesy pAieCces tobtall to l eady gon. Explain Note length • polygons peanstssthe irtua to anoth- tiny bit center of the first card. At the center of the alr gerof sides. Athe same to create yarnsatnuddfigure from tihfevathcteivyiatyrnsheet in the same position on the last sheet nouumnber KEY: are all already know, and encou. rage thetmo to explain the functiothne sk apcatsses l different second card, draw a picture of a blank TV anvye y ANSsWER that ask studecnatnsonly pull end of A imp rea ht atoveh tuhreave sides caTnh’tepnu, sh; they hold the Thatthsetudent lace wan re opnics) In fact, mguoosfncelseasdcho.part. Discuss howhtyhethvearious poafrttshoesmfhtohueldeye work with the bout of paper. Frienpd the middle strip and draw an image that would from the one before. Then screen. Make sure what you draw on the may d sphoalyg 1. True. all poly expla3in00 bones. Some line segmaent. re to You rcetgaunlar thinknot amndotroe than e the first linewe they colle tthheeysame, b.aby isbbroairnsnhtweoeitphroduce vision. Footrhoerlder students, cotvoermtahke names of the the ncetxotrs appear haillfmwasy between the two images. Fill in the remaining strips they project them fast Where is the dot in the cube above? Is it first card is slightly smaller than the TV ents arethaallt 2. Truefe. lAike activity draw only 206 bones. makes a he f OUR CLASS CAN, TOO! tud thatres st lion the atdoult with who in t s be enough to make you at the back of the cube? Or at the front? screen. Tape the back of the first card to s d figu e moons erent lveoalvuingteaenrs student, thiosrpsart to appropxricmeate the transition between the first and final images. mate tthoetpholyg later fueseditfof g.eItnphvaeirtrte,s of the eye before copying the activity sheeert. Duringact cket s f ani idenetaifsyt ut th gluteus maximus so on. uld ti actor think you’re watching Slim Okay, you know this is just a flat drawing, the top part of the straw. o the l t abnot polygons. muscle is the and .bWe o rtual from d ouare lse. Tthheembiggest segment, shosueled se vi e nge othernfigfiunres 3. Fa ate students ecau to hir move. That’s called an opti- so what’s up? (That’s right! With this optical ra nts ca tyogcornes. on). is a activity, poef robne sive tude osfepdol you sit Ask for a showreofBhands to deteorfmthiene which of ’s lencghteha Wxhpeennstudents have assembled their books, have them cal illusion—when your brain illusion, there are no right or wrong STEP 2. Place the back of the second card en, s ere u (the muscle Figujust like everything an arm ess e hy Th ehxaatmwples parts up opfolliyvginognsc.ells, the within be l , or w ues t bearae madHetahree two lines, ABanodraCllD, your studsteanntdsintghink is theoyualrdn expWehriyment with flipoping the pages at different rates of is tricked into seeing some- answers! It’s whatever your eyes tell you (with the TV screen) on of hniq 4. False.sBtooneEs, G, and length can pass w nes? less t tec dentB, C, this same ns so they eal o re or sFtiguures ing B are the reaso ohaf nthreir spetemdo. 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Expl DE the ACTIV who cool, ptohleyigrons two bomnees it out, GUI ideaRofELATED is as puppeteers —or poalert occur wherea wirefra as those thattheir animbaatcokrgsround appears to be black. Explain that this to cnotms bt ine is called theyvasmbloeojothinetds, sucEhR’S ygon. to think of Ask your stude ng that of jofinitssh—edim, mo real. Oponle way versatile puppets. your are a draBwi two cEaxtpelgaoinrihesowwasa movie creates anloToEpktAmicoaClreiHllusiontwhehhenanadse, “rpieesrfoefct” incorcecduirbslbyecause the eyes become tired staring at 4’ 11” prep wireframe Slimjoints that permit and manipulate that are ild! the skull, tahnadt moavdaeble of course. et create kind of puppets ACTIIVIITY 1 IT’S AN EYE THING n w Once in the ck 1 ru bent wire.join the bonsetsill pthicetudreetsai(lfsrames) is projectseimdpoalnelktr,oabaosuctrebeanll.-aEnacdh-sforame is about mariotnheettwehs—itetphaert of the paper. Because the letter “A” is 10 all be mtoumchove. T students to learn their own simple it, and added spine, and mwoilluth and might create painted legs, arms, snleigchkt,ly difcferereantet from the one flashedabremfosrae.nTdhlegfrsames appear DE Oldernsotutdbernigthst, the part of the eye that sees it (the retina) your students movement of the GUI controlled by strings. characters allow for a rotating the kEneRes’S The joints that at just the right speed (24 framrthesmpoevresmeceoTnnEtdoA).f TCheHbrain interprets is resting. When the eyes shift to the plain white paper, 8 the back-and-fo marionettes. ACTIIVIITY joints that enable (spine) and Y 2 MAK hinge the changing images as continugoliudsinmgojotiontnsbecause our eyes the light on the part of the retina that has beeTnhresftinlmg Adventures in Animation is about actors What do you see happening to your drawing? ING of joints include part THE MOVES s. 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Now distribute the activity sheets. Tell students that it is think of one another as special. Give a few examples by telling San Diego, CA with a total attendance of 145. 40 years later usually Krypto who helps others. But now, it is Krypto who children how you think another teacher is special because she Leading the way in the I’m Special program is Krypto, the main character in ’s needs help. Tell students they will use their imaginations to or he always has a smile in the morning, or how the school animated series, Krypto, the Superdog. Krypto hails from the planet Krypton. Along with his best pal tell the story of what happens next in their very own special director is special because she makes sure all the children are this block-buster, 4 day event that originally showcased Kevin and a host of other heroic animals, Krypto battles the forces threatening the people and animals of adventure with Krypto. Remind children of the super power well taken care of. Metropolis. 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Z35 DMZ34 DM VOICES MZ32 DMZ33 VOICES D Z31 DMZ30 DM Z 28 MZ29 BRIAN WOOD his month, the war in DMZ comes to Staten Island. That “forgotten borough” is one of the most frequently requested locations I am asked about, in interviews or in person, when people want to know their status in the fictional DMZ world (the others are Hell’s Kitchen, Queens, T and Roosevelt Island – I’ll try to get to everything, eventually). My own personal experience with Staten Island, aside from listening to old Wu-Tang cassettes, is limited to visiting twice, once to scout locations for an ex-girlfriend’s film, and going to a college house party in Brainchild StudioS/nYc St. George. It’s obvious which one I chose to draw upon for DMZ. Y 330 West 38th Street, Suite 904

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Visit Brainchild Studios at: RICCARDO BURCHIELLI (cocreator, artist): JEROMY COX (colorist): BRIAN WOOD: “Hit the Light” – Metallica (because “Where Is My Mind” – Pixies “What’s It All About” – Reducer SF (kind www.brainchildstudiosnyc.com I’m a fucking fat thrasher! – the party “I Don’t Want To Hear It” – Minor Threat of frat-posing-as-punk shit, but great begins) “The Choice Is Yours” – Black Sheep sing-along material, and since it’s a song “Ace of Spades” – Motorhead (because “Add It Up” – Violent Femmes about striking out with women at a bar, Lemmy is the father of all of us – the “Party At Ground Zero” – Fishbone it’s a totem of sorts to play at the start party rocks!) of a night) “Cowboys from Hell” – Pantera (Because “Re-Ignition” – Bad Brains (I would find they are the most powerful metal band little wrong with playing nothing BUT in history – we’re drinking hard) Bad Brains all night long at a party, but “Creep” – Stone Temple Pilots (because I’m maybe that explains why no one ever half the man I used to be–I’m becoming comes to mine) to be too much drunk) “Anything, Anything” – Buckcherry (ok, “Little Wing” – Jimmy Hendrix (because it’s a cover and Dramarama’s version during the night there is a time for love) wins in all other situations, but the “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” – Otis speed and ferocity of Buckcherry’s r e m m u S Redding (because now I want to be makes that beer disappear. Another calm, baby) bad-luck-in-love song)* “Brave Captain” – FIREHOSE (SST – best KRISTIAN DONALDSON (guest artist): record label ever?) “Ace of Spades” – Motorhead “Peace of Mind” – Boston (for those final 0 1 0 2 “Rebel Yell” – Billy Idol moments stumbling over empty cups at “Scenario” – A Tribe Called Quest the end of the night) “Las Cruces Jail” – Two Gallants * “Wrong” – Archers of Loaf, spiritual “Astro Zombies” – The Misfits substitute to be played if/when too (Drink – GUINNESS) many people make fun of you for WILL DENNIS (editor, enabler): Buckcherry. JOHN PAUL LEON (cover artist): “Rocks Off” – Rolling Stones (from the “Twice As Hard,” “Seeing Things” – Black original get silly drunk record EXILE ON What Would Matty Play? Who knows. I like to Crowes MAIN ST.) kick the poor guy when he’s down, which is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” “Streams of Whiskey” – Pogues (please basically all the time, so I’m going to say he –The Band play this at my funeral) has crap taste in music and probably has “Brownsville Girl,” “When I Paint My “Wasted” – Circle Jerks (’nuff said) Candlebox on his iPod. (DMZ trivia moment – “Masterpiece” – Bob Dylan “Sweet Child O’ Mine” – GnR (’cuz who the logo on Matty’s baseball cap is that of doesn’t want to hear this song Riccardo Burchielli’s heavy metal band). JARED K. FLETCHER (letterer): at some point in the night?) “Boychuker” – Rocket from the Crypt “If Only You Were Lonely” – The “Protect Ya Neck” – Wu-Tang Clan Replacements (best drunken band ever) “Barroom Hero” – Dropkick Murphys “Russian Roulette” – The Spunks “Ain’t No Fun” – Snoop Dogg NEXT MONTH IN DMZ #36 (if it’s that kinda party, i’ll be swillin’ o.g. coors tallboyz!!!!!) Bio-weapons,Abu Ghraib,“we don’t torture”... a mini global war on terror playing out over a couple square blocks in Staten Island. Next arc in DMZ:“War Powers” – Parco Delgado’s back, and so is Riccardo, as the DMZ goes sovereign. Now, who needs a beer?

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