DC Comics Announces Hanna-Barbera Line Of Comics
DC Entertainment announces new slate of Hanna-Barbera titles
Marvel comics has Star Wars. Now DC Comics has Hanna-Barbera. First announced on Entertainment Weekly, some of your favorite Saturday morning cartoon characters will now be starring in their own comics. Scooby Doo, Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, The Flinstones and more will be starring in all new adventures, written and drawn by some of the biggest names in comics.
After putting some initial ideas in place, [Dan] DiDio sought out creative teams, going after the best of the best and securing artists and writers such as DC co-publisher and veteran artist Jim Lee, Jeff Parker (Aquaman) and Howard Porter (Superman). But DiDio was firm about letting his creative teams take the reins. “What you’ll see is that Amanda Connor really looked at the Flintstones and found a way to move them forward, even though they’re set in the past,” DiDio explains. “And then we have a great other creators: Doc [Evan “Doc” Shaner, Justice League Darkseid War: Green Lantern] is having a great time with the characters, and we brought in Mark Sexton, one of the designers from Mad Max: Fury Road to take a pass on the Rocky Races.” But among all the excitement, there’s one book that stands out from the rest, that DiDio and Lee call their “crown jewel.”
Going back to my Star Wars comparison, DC is putting some of their biggest name talent on these Hanna-Barbera titles. That’s a sign DC wants these books to succeed. I hope they do. I’ll for certain be checking out Future Quest for Doc Shaner, Jeff Parker and Jordie Bellaire. I still envision Scooby Doo being turned into a Fast & Furious style franchise.
What can fans expect from this new series? “You’re gonna have an epic adventure in the future stories with Johnny Quest and Space Ghost,” says DiDio. “You’re going to have a scary, dangerous world inWacky Raceland that is just as strange and dynamic as you hope it would be. I think Scooby Doo is going to excite people and challenge people, and I think that we’re going to use Flintstones to really bring out that voice and social commentary that they might’ve brought out in the ’60s and raise it back for today.”
Something else that’s great is this is just the initial lineup of comics. Hanna-Barbera has a deep roster of characters that can be mined for comic greatness.
Source: EW
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