More DC/Hannah Barbera Crossovers

This one better be Kino.

>BLACK LIGHTNING/HONG KONG PHOOEY SPECIAL #1

>Back from Vietnam, kung-fu master Hong Kong Phooey has set up his own detective agency in the inner city. Meanwhile, Jefferson Pierce (a.k.a. Black Lightning) has uncovered a plot by three assassins to collect the components of a sacred text revealing the darkest secrets of martial arts magic, and they’ll kill anyone who owns them—including the dog who holds the last chapter of the book, Hong Kong Phooey. MICHAEL CRAY Bryan Hill, Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz team up to deliver a story with all the power of a roundhouse kick to the chops!

>Plus, Jeff Parker and Scott Kolins team up once again in a bonus story featuring a pre-DEMON Jason Blood and Hanna-Barbera’s own “Spirit of ’76,” The Funky Phantom.

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>SUPER SONS/DYNOMUTT SPECIAL #1

>It’s no fun for Jon Kent to be visiting Big City with his parents for the funeral of an old friend, so his best pal Damian Wayne decides to follow along and give him the inside scoop on the city. But when they go to meet Robin’s local friend, Dynomutt, they find him injured and in need of help. And Dynomutt’s human superhero companion, Blue Falcon, has seemingly turned evil. What’s the reason for this betrayal between once-loyal companions, and what role might the evil Red Vulture play in this scenario? Fan-favorite SUPER SONS writer Peter J. Tomasi teams up with Fernando Pasarin and Oclair Albert to tell this story featuring the first encounter of the Dog Wonder with the sons of the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight.

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Where the fuck is my goddamn Duck Dodgers/Green Lantern crossover you assholes

This is going to be utter kino

>THE FLASH/SPEED BUGGY SPECIAL #1

>RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS scribe Scott Lobdell, along with Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund, is gearing up to deliver a rubber-burning story that pushes all the way into the redline! When Wally West tries to take down the villain Kilg%re, he’s surprised to find he has an unknown ally who can move just as fast as he can. Dr. Pernell, a brilliant S.T.A.R. Labs scientist, has found a way to power his dune buggy using the Speed Force. When the Flash agrees to help test the limits of the vehicle in a race, something unexpected sends them spiraling out of the Speed Force and into the unknown. They land in a post-apocalyptic future, but Dr. Pernell is missing, leaving a now-sentient Speed Buggy to help the Fastest Man Alive repair the time stream and stop the triple threat of Savitar, Speed Demon Buggy and… Reverse Speed Buggy?

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you already had one now go away

wallyfags might as well kill themselves

>AQUAMAN/JABBERJAW SPECIAL #1

>In a story written by Aquaman writer Dan Abnett with art and by Paul Pelletier and Andrew Hennessey, the town of Amnesty Island is besieged by a series of shark attacks, and the authorities call Aquaman for help! What’s unusual about this case is that the shark isn’t trying to kill people—he just wants to talk to them. All Jabberjaw wants is to get back to Aqualand, the future undersea utopia where he came from. But that peaceful city where man and sentient sea life have been living in harmony has been turned into a dystopian nightmare created by a new Ocean Master! Now the King of Atlantis and his friendly shark ally must team up to set things right.

>This one-shot also includes a bonus short story by Jeff Parker and Scott Kolins that tells the tale of the first-ever meeting between Captain Caveman, The Spectre and the wizard Shazam.

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>Lobdell
Ugh

>Bryan Hill
Eww

>Nam vet Hong Kong Phooey
>Classic Black Lightning
I'm fucking ready

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>Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund
I feel so dead inside

it's so painful

thank god i don't give a shit about speed buggy.

ah man and he's using Kilg%re!

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cbr.com/dc-hanna-barbera-new-crossover-one-shots/

Interview

>CBR: Dan, definitely want to talk about each one of these individually, but let’s start from a broader perspective: You’ve really championed DC’s Hanna-Barbera Beyond comics, and these crossovers — was it a no-brainer to do another round? Did you have enough ideas generated the first time around you had to do it again?

>Dan DiDio: We had a lot of fun with the first round of crossovers, and also the series themselves have been a real interesting mix of product that we’ve been able to kick out, and present these characters in new ways. But one of the things that I’ve noticed personally is that I was really focused on the Hanna-Barbera characters from the ’60s, because that was my sweet spot. Those were the ones I remembered well. Then I had folks in the building coming up to me, constantly asking me about different characters that we didn’t use. Characters like Jabberjaw, or Dynomutt, or Hong Kong Phooey weren’t my sweet spot. Because of that, I never really gave them the amount of attention. Then, as I started to look at these characters more, I saw there was a lot of potential here, as well.

>Sure enough, just as we found creators that were interested in Jonny Quest and Space Ghost, we found just as many characters that were interested in Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, and, of all things, Speed Buggy. It was a lot of fun. I enjoy any one of these things where we get a chance to look at characters from a different way, and present them in a story that we haven’t seen before. We’ve done it with Hanna-Barbera, we had a lot of success with Looney Tunes — we still have people talking about Batman/Elmer Fudd — I’m hoping that with every round of these crossovers, we create that one, two, three books that really pop out, and become something people really enjoy.

so... Luke Cage and Iron Fist?

>It’s fun seeing these Hanna-Barbera characters reimagined in different ways, and pairing them with DC characters say something about both. What kind of message, for you, does this send about the current era of DC and the willingness to have fun with the DC superheroes, and the freedom to put them in clearly unexpected positions and situations?

>We’ve been broadening out on a pretty consistent basis, in terms of stories, ideas and concepts that I really think take full advantage of our character base. It’s interesting, because DC was always built on a diverse product. You go back to the ’60s and the ’70s, you had war, horror comics, westerns, everything. Then we really focused on superheroes for a rather extended period of time. By doing crossovers like this, it plays to the strength of what superheroes are, but allows us to really broaden out the type of story we tell with it.

>We’ve had a lot of success with other companies crossing over, but doing these all in-house, with such an array of characters, is a lot of fun. Honestly, if Warner Bros. didn’t own the Hanna-Barbera characters, we’d probably try to do these anyway. That’s how much these characters resonate with the folks in the building.

jesus fucking christ how pathetic can DC be

it's they're new motto "We're doing the same exact thing as Marvel but much much worse"

>first-ever meeting between Captain Caveman, The Spectre and the wizard Shazam.

Captain Caveman is the first Captain Marvel... holy shit.

>It’s been a little more than two years since the initial announcement of DC’s Hanna-Barbera lineup — that day, there was certainly a lot of skepticism. Once they came out, I think people saw what they were, and were largely won over. Have you been surprised by how these books received, or is this pretty much what you expected and hoped?

>It’s what I had hoped for. We’ve had mixed sales success, but I argue that if you sat down and read any one of these books, you can’t argue the quality and the care that’s been put into them. It’s a level of risk that we’re willing to take.

>It’s been wonderful to work with the folks inside Warner Bros. — we actually have to negotiate these within Warner Bros. itself, this isn’t something we just can do arbitrarily. Diane Nelson was integral in helping us bring the Hanna-Barbera library over to the DCU. There’s a lot of respect put into every one of these characters and stories. We love the opportunity to really do what we do with our own characters — find the core of what makes these characters great, what people remember most, and find a way to contemporize the world around them.

>The approach to every one of these stories is, it’s a DC comic with Hanna-Barbera characters in it, as if they belong in that world. I think that just naturally makes the artists and writers approach it in a different style and sensibility. That makes this a really fresh take on this type of story.

hi ladderbro, how have you been?

>On that note, you look at the pairings for this round and in the initial crossovers, and as outwardly wacky as they may seem, you can see the connections. There are some similarities in the properties being mashed-up — how did these pairings come about?

>In this particular case, we started with the Hanna-Barbera character first, and tried to figure out who matched up best with them. There were a couple of naturals — Jabberjaw and Aquaman seemed like they naturally should meet. Nobody will argue that. Same thing with Flash and Speed Buggy — it just seemed natural to get that race going. We went with Super Sons and Dynomutt, because naturally, two boys and a dog seemed to go well.

>Probably my personal favorite night now is Black Lightning and Hong Kong Phooey. The idea to take a martial artist and a strong African-American character, and pair them together in a ’70s setting, where they operate as private investigators — you know, I’m surprised nobody’s ever tried that before. [Laughs]

>Then naturally what happened was, we had more characters that we wanted than the number of books we were able to put out. We were able to do a couple of short stories — and again, natural pairings. Captain Caveman/Shazam, seems natural when you think about it. As does the Funky Phantom meeting characters like the Demon. As you can tell, we’re just having fun, man. [Laughs]

>The Neptunes

Everybody, all together now.
ME AND MY FRIENDS GET NO RESPECT

>On that note, you look at the pairings for this round and in the initial crossovers, and as outwardly wacky as they may seem, you can see the connections. There are some similarities in the properties being mashed-up — how did these pairings come about?

>In this particular case, we started with the Hanna-Barbera character first, and tried to figure out who matched up best with them. There were a How did the creative teams came together for this? There are a lot of DC vets. Dan Abnett, makes sense because of his experience with Aquaman. Denys Cowan drawing Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey is exciting — how did the talent recruitment go for this?

>It went easy. Dan Abnett was working on Aquaman, so it seemed to naturally fit into his storytelling and continuity. Pete Tomasi was brought in to work on Dynomutt as soon as the Super Sons were added. Denys Cowan was the only artist we could think of for the cover, and to really bring that book to life. In Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey, the writer, Bryan Hill, has probably been the one that has been most actively petitioning for this particular book. He’s a huge Hong Kong Phooey fan. To be honest, it was his perseverance that really brought all of these characters more to my attention.

>Lastly, Scott Lobdell, he had me on “Reverse Speed Buggy.” When he pitched the story, and said the villain was going to be Reverse Speed Buggy, it seemed liked one of the best single pitch lines I’ve had in quite a while.

What does scooby do that we neglect.

>The ’60s Hanna-Barbera characters are largely a little bit more recognizable and have endured more to future generations. There will be a lot of readers who don’t know Jabberjaw or Speed Buggy or the Funky Phantom. What’s the approach there, knowing you’re introducing these characters to a portion of the audience for the first time?

>And that’s why we’re introducing them in the crossovers first. That was the whole purpose behind the crossovers. The idea is, these guys might not be as recognizable, but they is certainly a fanbase for them. For us to help reintroduce them into the marketplace is fun, and hopefully there’s enough interest in them that we can look at similar programs like we’ve built for our other characters with these characters. Who knows, these one-shots might also lead to standalone series, just like we had with the other Hanna-Barbera characters.

>Right, and we saw that with Snagglepuss the last time around. We’ve touched on all of them a little bit already — but let’s go down the line of the four books and get a little more commentary from you on each one. Let’s start with Aquaman/Jabberjaw, which, ad you said, is something of a natural fit — what excites you about this story?

>What excites me about this story is, it has a time travel component. If you’re not familiar with Jabberjaw, Jabberjaw is the shark that’s part of a rock band, the Neptunes, in the near future. So naturally we had a time difference between Aquaman and Jabberjaw, and we wanted to address that in the most serious matter possible, so we don’t have to talk about the fact that the shark is a drummer in a band. [Laughs]

>I don’t want to tip my hand, but there is another set of Hanna-Barbera characters that guest star in there, in a cameo role that is essential to the overall story. How about that?

Oh hey! Wally is getting more attention. That’s cool.
Would have preferred a Johnny Quest crossover.

>Reverse Speed Buggy?

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>Then there’s Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey — which is definitely definitely ’70s Black Lightning, right?

>’70s Black Lightning. We embraced him with both arms on this one. Hong Kong Phooey/Black Lightning is being written very straightforward, very serious, and therefore I think it’s going to really have a tone and sensibility that I think people will react in a great way to. There’s a lot of fun stuff going on in that one. Hong Kong Phooey runs a detective agency, and Black Lightning is brought in to help on a particular case that takes them on a really fun adventure.

>With Flash/Speed Buggy, we already know to watch out for the Reverse Speed Buggy.

>We can’t diminish the evil of the Reverse Speed Buggy! I think that is a threat that, honestly, if Flash cannot contain it, it has a chance to really affect all of the DC Universe. I’m glad he’s able to work with Speed Buggy in keeping that contained.

>And Super Sons/Dynomutt, folks first heard about that a couple weeks back — sounds like a fun pairing, also maybe Pete Tomasi’s last Super Sons story for a while?

>I don’t know, that sounds incorrect to me, but I only work here! [Laughs]

>This is a Pete Tomasi Super Sons production. I’ll tell you — looking at the art as we’re talking, Dynomutt looks like he could take on Krypto the way they’e drawing him over here. I feel like there’s going to be a lot of fun with these two. There’s also the potential of other canine guest stars in that book, if I’m not mistaken. So who knows who else might show up in that story.

WE BE PUTTIN' ALL OUR FOES IN CHECK

>Hong Kong Phooey
>#1 Superguy
>Is a Dog
>MFW

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>Are there more ideas if there’s another round?

>You know, to me, these are fifth week stunts that really make fifth weeks a lot of fun. I’m looking at every fifth week month as a way to find some crazy crossovers. We’re sitting here going, we’d love to go back and revisit the Looney Tunes characters at some point, as well. If these things click, then you’ll see more. I’m very happy to say, the last two rounds, the crossovers between DC and Hanna-Barbera and DC and Looney Tunes, have been very successful for us. I think it caught a lot of people off guard.

>The best part of it is, that level of success gets people more excited, and come at us with more ideas. It’s not about us generating ideas as much anymore, as it is starting to hear what people might want to bring us, and the type of crossovers they might want to see.

>I can tell you one that we’re thinking about already: Sylvester and Tweety and Birds of Prey. Seems like a natural to me. [Laughs]

>Now that it’s out there, that has to happen.

>I can almost promise you it will. [Laughs] As you can see, we have with this. That’s all that maters here.

>It’s a mix of product. It’s fun comics, it’s dramatic comics, it’s science-fiction adventure, it’s horror, it’s superhero adventure at its best, it’s thoughtful, insightful character studies — it’s not just diversity of characters and creators, but also content. I think that’s what we need to do right now. One size doesn’t fit all anymore. So what we got to do is, we got to keep on reaching and pushing out, and we’ve got to create product to find the people, and hopefully when they find that, it will lead them into the DCU, and all the other types of stories we tell.

>All four of the new DC and Hanna-Barbera one-shots are scheduled for release on May 30.

Best one.

But me and my friends get no respect.

MY DIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK

I WOULD PAY SO MUCH MONEY FOR AN ONGOING ABOUT PHOOEY AND BLACK FUCKING LIGHTNING HOLY SHIT

WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE WORLD
WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE DAY

Sounds wild.

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Good shit right here

Oh baby, this is gonna be good

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>Implying you wouldn't read an ongoing about Black Lightning and Hong Kong Phooey taking down badguys

YES! YES! YES!!!

I want more badass Elmer Fudd stories.

>Funky Phantom
>Pre-Demon Jason Blood

How the fuck does that work?

I'm dead serious when I say that not only was that the best King Batman story, but Fudd was the best Batman enemy in a long fucking time. I wouldn't give a shit if they literally made a Not-Elmer Fudd villain for Batman.
>Dat smooth as fuck shotgun maneuver

johnny quest had one tho. in the previous round

Literally who cares

Literally impossible to be more garbage than Marvlel. I’m still actually buying DC.

Fuck off back to Sup Forums capeshitter this is Comics

Oh hey it's you, glad to see you still got some IQ cells after all the constant sperging you did about Looney tunes and DC characters being together.

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I love how Connor's bit was with the dancing frog.

*doots*

>Kilg%re

How the fuck are you supposed to pronounce this?

Killgore in an "Your Head Asplode" voice.

Joke: Duck Dodgers/Green Lantern
Woke: Duck Dodgers and the Legion of Super-Heroes

No Tom and Jerry?

Luke Cage has lightning powers???

>Funky Phantom and Jason Blood
>Not Deadman and Funky Phantom

>Lobdell
why

So what. Who cares?

>Jeff Parker relegated to back-up work
this is the least fair world ever

Is Foghorn confirming that Connor was gay?

take a better look at that cover

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No but he black

Yes
YES
>Lobdell
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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>The idea to take a martial artist and a strong African-American character, and pair them together in a ’70s setting, where they operate as private investigators — you know, I’m surprised nobody’s ever tried that before

Didio really is one cheeky cunt

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Stupid crossovers that have lots of effort and love put into them are the best

this shit gives me life

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>Scott Lobdell
Nice. It's been a while since he done another DC book that isn't Red Hood.

I heard good things about his BB one shot so I'm interested to see how he handle this.

>Not Bronze Tiger/Hong Kong Phooey
One job.

Why doesn't Marvel do crossovers?

You're missing the point really badly man. Look at the match up and setting. Just look here

Because Disney doesn't trust them with their properties.

>He doesn't remember Transformers and Attack
on Titan Avengers crossovers.

.......fucking brilliant.

Will we ever get to see a Super Friends/Justice League Team-Up?

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Look me in the eyes and tell me you'd greenlight a Bronze Tiger comic and expect more than 5 people to give a glance.
Even Black Lightning is a recognizeable name compared to Bronze friggin Tiger.

Black Lightning is shit.

Why is he so based?

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Am I the only one tired of seeing "black" in a lot of POC characters? Black panther black lightning black Vulcan why not just name him lightning boldt or something?

They were established in the 60s and 70s. Be glad, DC doesn't call John Stewart the Black Green Lantern anymore.

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Because after telling DC that a racist white guy who can transform into a superpowered black guy was retarded and he would create a better character for them, Tony Isabella saw this hanging on a wall and thought it sounded good.

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These are all really fucking weird and I am almost inclined to actually read them. You fucks better be storytiming all this shit the moment they release.

>black lightning
It could have been worse. They could have called him Black Power.

>The Flash
>Wally

about time DC admitted that Wally is the only Flash that matters, fuck Barry and Wallace

I want Ennis to write another HB book. Dastardly & Muttley was great.

I'm tired of faggots like you saying "POC" more than anything

I didn't know how to feel with that ending

It was the best. That Irish bastard did it again.

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We're doing it how we like

>POC
Back in my days that stood for "piece of crap."

>he hasn't read the previous round of crossovers
You are missing out.

>Captain Caveman, The Spectre and the wizard Shazam

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What other HB book could he possibly write?

Good question. Sup Forums, can you answer it?

Secret Squirrel

These Parker/Kolins back-up stories sound amazing.

>>And Super Sons/Dynomutt, folks first heard about that a couple weeks back — sounds like a fun pairing, also maybe Pete Tomasi’s last Super Sons story for a while?
>>I don’t know, that sounds incorrect to me, but I only work here! [Laughs]


hell yeah, New Young Justice CONFIRMED!

so some kind of heroes that you hire?

>More HB crossovers
>Not one DC/Classic CN crossover
Eat a bucket of shit DC

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A gritty Huckleberry Hound/El Kabong western.

Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan