DC’s “Summer of Superman” initiative is going to the dogs in June, as the publisher announced this week that the team of writer Ryan North and artists Mike Norton and Ian Herring will return to Krypton to tell the story of Superman’s bestest friend Krypto.
Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton will take our heroic canine — the breakout star of the Superman trailer — from Krypton to Earth.
“Krypto’s origin has always been done at kind of a high level,” North said. “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.”
DC shared more details on what to expect from the five-issue miniseries:
DC’s Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton comic book series begins Krypto’s journey on the planet Krypton. Jor-El and Lara are working on a ship capable of keeping someone alive in interstellar space, but when their first test—with Krypto inside—goes catastrophically wrong, the dog is thought lost. Unbeknownst to them, Krypto and his spacecraft merely entered an unexpected space-time gateway, and days later from his point of view—even though it’s been decades in real time—Krypto lands on Earth.
Through the five issues of Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, Krypto explores Earth in search of his family. Finding himself lost and alone on our alien world—and with strange new superpowers quickly coming in—Krypto begins traveling the strange planet he finds himself in the middle of, always on the trail of his lost friend: Kal-El, a being now better known as Superman.
“Each issue of this miniseries is a complete short story, combining to tell the full story of Krypto the Superdog,” North said. “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.”
Take a look at some of Norton’s interior artwork:
“I’m always ready for drawing more dogs in comics,” Norton said. “Krypto is dream project!”
Jae Lee and June Chung drew the main cover for the first issue, while Dustin Nguyen provides a variant:
The first issue will land in stores on June 18.
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