During his spotlight panel at C2E2, writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and fan-favorite artist Dan Mora (Superman, Justice League Unlimited, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest) announced and revealed covers and concept art for Immortal Legend Batman. Higgins and Mora will also be joined by Writer Mat Groom (Ultraman, Inferno Girl Red) and artist Erica D’Urso (Captain, Marvel, Inferno Girl Red) for this six-issue limited series launching under DC’s Elseworlds banner.

Available for preorder Friday, May 23, Immortal Legend Batman arrives at participating comic book shops and digital retailers Wednesday, August 27. This series combines the best elements of superhero storytelling with elements of the Japanese “tokusatsu” genre of entertainment, like the Western sci-fi/fantasy, encompassing everything from Japanese kaiju to manga. “In Immortal Legend Batman,Dan, Mat, Erica, and I are using elements of ‘superhero tokusatsu,’ so readers can expect to see cool and recognizable elements like mech/armor-style transformations, specifically named combat moves, a gradually expanding team, and more,” said writer Higgins.

Many centuries from now, humanity becomes a galactic civilization with capital megacities on multiple planets and smaller outposts on dozens more. To conquer the vast distances between solar systems, humanity tapped into dark matter to bend space-time around spacecraft, from hulking colony vessels to one-man mech suits. In accessing this dark power, humanity broke the barrier between their universe and their universe’s shadow. This resulted in the creation of “Shadows”: mindless, soulless apparitions craving nothing but violence and destruction. Due to the actions of these Shadow creatures, newly colonized worlds were brought to the brink of collapse. But three warriors found a way to access the energy that bound their universe to the shadow universe, becoming “immortal legends”: Immortal Legend Batman, Immortal Legend Robin and Immortal Legend Nightwing.

For more information on Immortal Legend Batman and the World’s Greatest Super Heroes, follow @DCOfficial on social media and visit the DC website at https://www.dc.com. A robust selection of classic new Elseworlds series is available to read with a subscription to the DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription platform (DCUI). For more information and a free trial, visit the DCUI website at https://www.dcuniverseinfinite.com. 

That Guy Tommy sat down with prolific Kaiju artist Matt Frank during the “Retro City” King of the Monsters-Fest. Since 2011, Matt Frank has been known in both Japan and America as the “Kaiju King,” becoming the fan-favorite artist for all things giant and monstrous!

Although he had been drawing since he was very young, Matt became a true professional artist somewhere between 2005 and 2008. His first official foray into the Godzilla franchise was as a cover artist for Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters for IDW Publishing, and he continued to make covers for Godzilla: History’s Greatest Monster in 2012. By 2013, he headlined the 25-issue series, Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, the longest running Godzilla comic ever published, as a story co-developer, cover artist, and lead interior artist, and the series became an instant classic among fans.

Though Godzilla will always be his first love, Matt is also an accomplished Transformers artist, beginning with The Beast Wars Sourcebook as a character illustrator, and also providing interiors for Transformers Animated: The Rise of Safeguard, Transformers Spotlight: Trailcutter, Mars Attacks the Transformers, and numerous titles for both IDW and Fun Publications. Matt even created 4 new Transformers characters, the Raptoricons, for the Official Transformers Collector’s Club in 2016.

Chris talked about how he and his brother would read Charles Schulz comics strips growing up. He went to art school and then later he got a job at Marvel comics. He worked in the bullpen where he learned the ins and outs of the comic world. He later got an opportunity to work on a little series called Mini Marvels. Chris Giarrusso’s art helped create the mini Marvel world. After that ended, he got an opportunity to work at Image comics on a comic called Savage Dragon, with one of his favorite artist Eric Larson. Here he created, G-Man a young superhero who gains the powers of super strength, super endurance and flight when he wears a magic cape.  His first appearance was in “Comic Bits”, published in Image’s Savage Dragon series. 

After that Image published volume one Learning to Fly in 2009. Then volume 2 Cape Crisis, was published in 2010. 

Chris said he still reads comics. He’s a big fan of Transformers, TMNT, and He-Man. He said that he likes the current run of Transformers that Skybound is writing. I asked him with Dynamite writing ThunderCats and Silverhawks if you would ever consider doing coverage for that run. He stated he would love to do a variant cover for either SilverHawks or ThunderCats. He said he if Dynamite would reach out he would say yes. (So Dynamite if you are reading this article reach out to Chris Giarrusso and make this happen!)

He said earlier this year, Marvel reached out to him about doing a series of variant covers on ongoing comics from X-Men to Venom to Spider-Man and Moon Knight. The list goes on. At the time of the interview, Marvel had just dropped the news that Godzila would be coming to the Marvel universe. I asked him if he would like to do a Mini Marvel Godzilla variant and he said yes. I also asked him if he would ever think about going back to Mini Marvels and doing a Multiverse version.  He said a multiverse Mini-Marvels would be great. (So Marvel if you are reading this article, give us a Mini Marvel Multiverse)

He also talked about working on Officer Clawsome with his buddy Brian “Smitty” Smith, a New York best seller. You can get it from Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Target, Bookshop and Powell’s. 

Check out the link for the full interview. We talked about so much other stuff.

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