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[Azrael]

THE KAMANDI CHALLENGE #1
Written by DAN ABNETT and DAN DIDIO
Art by DALE EAGLESHAM, KEITH GIFFEN and SCOTT KOBLISH
Cover by BRUCE TIMM
Variant cover by DALE EAGLESHAM
Variant cover by KEITH GIFFEN and SCOTT KOBLISH
Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the order form for details. Prepare to take part in one of the greatest adventures from the infinite future of the DC Universe, and join the industry's top creative teams in a round-robin, no-holds-barred, storytelling extravaganza titled THE KAMANDI CHALLENGE!
Born from the mind of Jack "King" Kirby, the post apocalyptic Earth of Kamandi has been a fan favorite for decades, and now 14 intrepid teams of writers and artists build on this incredible foundation and take the title character on an epic quest to find his long-lost parents and travel to places seen and unseen in the DC Universe.
Each issue will end with an unimaginable cliffhanger, and it's up to the next creative team to resolve it before creating their own. It's a challenge worthy of "The King" himself! In this premiere issue, the Last Boy on Earth is dragged from his safe haven by a group of tigers, only to face the nightmarish threat of the ultimate weapon!
On sale JANUARY 25 • 40 pg, FC, 1 of 12, $4.99 US • RATED T

[Hermit]

Per chi conosce il personaggio bene, che aspettative avete di questa serie?

[Kenshiro]

Il personaggio è interessante, appare pochissimo nel DCU (per ovvi motivi temporali) e le premesse di un team creativo differente ad ogni numero sono anch'esse interessanti, sebbene potrebbero essere una lama a doppio taglio (trama sconclusionata, forte disomogeneità nel comparto artistico...).
La valuterei solo una volta conclusa.

EDIT: Tanto per fare un pò di chiacchiere, ma questa serie è stata fortemente voluta da DiDio che è un fan dichiarato del personaggio (o meglio, è un fan dell'uso di personaggi oscuri del sottobosco DC). La mia più grossa preoccupazione è che voglia fare da co-writer in ogni numero.

[Hermit]

Gli artisti coinvolti sono buoni, quindi mi era venuta una mezza idea, ma non ho nessuna voglia di buttare soldi

[Azrael]

THE KAMANDI CHALLENGE #2
Written by PETER J. TOMASI • Art and cover by NEAL ADAMS • Variant cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
After the thrilling events of issue #1, writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Neal Adams rescue the Last Boy on Earth and send him on his next adventure. Now, Kamandi must save Tiger King Caesar and his people from impending doom. Will he be the hero they need? Or will he use the chaos of the situation to escape for good?
On sale FEBRUARY 22 • 32 pg, 2 of 12, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

[Azrael]

DC's KAMANDI CHALLENGE #1 Gets Bigger, Coming Faster, But Will Cost More

On sale JANUARY 18 • 96 pg, FC, 1 of 12, $7.99 US • RATED T

http://www.newsarama.com/32287-dc-s-kamandi-challenge-1-gets-earlier-release-with-expanded-content.html

[Azrael]

THE KAMANDI CHALLENGE #3
Written by JIMMY PALMIOTTI
Art by AMANDA CONNER
Cover by BEN CALDWELL
Variant cover by AMANDA CONNER
After the stunning cliffhanger of the last issue, the red-hot team of writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Amanda Conner takes the wheel and steers us toward a wild new adventure. Now, Kamandi is embraced by the God Watchers as a holy messenger! Can he keep up this charade long enough to survive? Or will the truth lead to the end of the last boy on earth?
On sale MARCH 29 • 32 pg, FC, 3 of 12, $3.99 US • RATED T

[Azrael]

The Kamandi Challenge #1 (PREVIEW)



http://www.cbr.com/the-kamandi-challenge-1-preview/

[Azrael]

The Kamandi Challenge #1 (PREVIEW)



http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/01/20/exclusive-dc-preview-the-kamandi-challenge-1/

[Azrael]

THE KAMANDI CHALLENGE #4
Written by JAMES TYNION IV • Art by CARLOS D'ANDA • Cover by PAUL POPE • Variant cover by CARLOS D'ANDA
After the jaw-dropping end of the last issue, writer James Tynion IV and artist Carlos D'Anda take us on a high flying adventure. Kamandi's journey has led him to the wondrous Western Wall—but is he prepared for what lies on the other side?
On sale APRIL 26 • 32 pg, FC, 4 of 12, $3.99 US • RATED T

[Azrael]

Review: KAMANDI CHALLENGE #1

9/10

http://www.comicosity.com/review-kamandi-challenge-1/

[Azrael]

KAMANDI CHALLENGE #1 REVIEW

8.3/10

http://au.ign.com/articles/2017/01/26/kamandi-challenge-1-review

[Hermit]

Letto il #1
Con un po' di scetticismo l'ho preso (4.50€ li mortacci  ) ma mi è piaciuto molto
La prima storia di Didio è introduttiva del personaggio, mentre la seconda di Abnett è molto più avventurosa e ricca d'azione. Le vicende mi hanno colpito perchè è un mondo tutto nuovo, ma trattato con semplicità. Ottimi i disegni di Eaglesham nella storia di Abnett. Proseguirò sicuramente, nel prossimo numero c'è Tomasi

[Azrael]

Kamandi Challenge #1 (Published by DC Comics; Review by Matthew Sibley; 'Rama Rating: 7 out of 10):

Kicking off with a prologue by Dan Didio, Kamandi Challenge pays respect to not only Jack Kirby, the creator of Kamandi, but also DC Challenge, a round robin experiment from years before. This series will see 14 teams of writers and artists produce a portion of the series and then let the following team pick up where they left off and go in whatever direction they choose. Didio, Keith Giffen and Scott Koblish open with an ordinary day for Kamandi that fast becomes out of the ordinary. And while the letters page reveals Didio's version would have involved Kamandi making friends with who he encounters, follow-up team Dan Abnett and Dale Eaglesham go in a direction which is drastically different. This idea of not knowing what's coming makes the series thrilling, or at least makes the idea of what later issues can be thrilling because this issue is serviceable, but not more than that. It doesn't fully capitalize on the idea that anything can happen because the prologue is about getting Kamandi into a situation reminiscent of Kirby's work. Luckily Abnett goes in a wonderfully weird direction with his story which is able to quash some of that feeling. If the series is going to continue in this manner, then the only thing you can expect is that you won't truly know what to expect.

[Azrael]

Kamandi Challenge #1
Written by Dan Didio and Dan Abnett
Art by Keith Giffen, Scott Koblish, Dale Eaglesham & Hi-FI
Lettering by Clem Robins
Published by DC Comics
Review by Scott Cederlund
'Rama Rating: 7 out of 10

DC Comics has set up an exquisite corpse of a story to celebrate Jack Kirby's 100th birthday. Over 12 issues, we'll get 14 creative teams (there are two of them in this first issue and two in the last) who are tasked with resolving the previous creative team's cliffhanger, write and draw their own story featuring Kamandi, a Kirby creation who is the last boy on Earth, and then craft their own cliffhanger for the next creative team to take care of. So the story here is following the creators of the comics and can they outwit both their predecessors and successors. In the category of everything-old-is-new-again, DC tried this back in the 1980s in what ended up being the ultimately forgettable DC Challenge, but Dan Didio has never been one to let a perfectly serviceable concept lie around unused. Kamandi Challenge #1 is less about the spirit of Jack Kirby and all about the crafting of story by committee that exemplifies mainstream comics today.

As far as story goes, Dan Didio, Keith Giffen and Scott Koblish set the stage for this series about a boy trapped on a futuristic Earth, dominated by animals and where humans are the base creatures of the world. This first story sets up two puzzles left to others to solve. First, Kamandi is raised in some kind of virtual reality world and when he wakes from it, he's told to find his parents and save the world, but that's not followed up much yet in the remainder of this issue. More immediately, Didio, Giffen and Koblish set up the first cliffhanger as Kamandi is thrown into a gladiatorial ring to face off against Tiny, a giant, loincloth-wearing ape. Picking up on that cliffhanger, Dan Abnett and Dale Eaglesham really establish this futuristic world, its players and its politics. The first story was a dream that Kamandi had to wake up from, so the second story is the waking world which looks more like the world that Kirby himself created over 40 years ago.

Giffen has always artistically bowed down to the feet of Kirby, and Didio's story gives him every opportunity to continue his genuflection. Giffen and Koblish actually ease the reader into the world of Kirby as Kamandi's virtual-reality dream puts him in a small, American town where Kirby himself is a shopkeep along with his longtime inker Mike Royer. Giffen gets to draw the story of a teenager whose world is about to be turned upside-down. At times, Giffen looks more like another Kirby devotee, Erik Larsen, than like Kirby himself. With a looser line than the two of them have really done before, Giffen and Koblish create a very spacious story that gets confusing now and again. The events that lead to the revelation of Kamandi's actual reality is unclear as something really nebulous crashes through the artificial sky over Kamandi's head, leaving the reader as confused about events as the main character is.

For the second story, Eaglesham embraces Kirby's design aesthetic. While Eaglesham has always been more from the school of Neal Adams or John Buscema than from Kirby, everything from the technology that lines the walls of this futuristic society to the prisoner's garb that they make Kamandi wear all come out of the work of Kirby. Where Giffen seems to be doing his usual Kirby schtick, Eaglesham looks inspired to be working in Kirby's shadow. His pages in this comic really define the world that this series will be set in and Eaglesham outdoes himself on every page, creating a society where dogs and tigers are the ruling race and Kamandi is the scientific oddity. If DC were willing to forget their basic structural conceit of this series, it would be fantastic to see where Eaglesham could go in continuing to tell stories with Kirby's creations.

Even as the art ranges from good to really, really good, the two writers of this comic stumble at the beginning of this ambitious project. Dan Didio and Dan Abnett spend a lot of their time searching for their own angles to Kamandi and his challenges and cannot get out of their artists' ways. Both of them are guilty of overwriting the story and not letting their co-creators tell the story through the images that they draw. In Abnett's portion of the comic, it's hard to tell if his writing is providing directions to Eaglesham or if he thinks something in Eaglesham's art is unclear and it's up to to the writer to over clarification. For a series that requires both immediate resolution and new conflict with every opening and closing page, it would seem that the writer carries the brunt of the work but both Didio and Abnett's writing feels clumsy and overdone. Each writer spends too much time telling us about Kamandi and his troubles than working with their artists and showing us the conflict.

But for Kamandi Challenge #1, narrative is secondary to the concept of the story. In some ways, each issue of Kamandi Challenge is about living fast and leaving a beautiful corpse for the next creative team to deal with in 30 days. That seems very anti-Kirby, who was all about creating these rich and grand narratives. He created Kamandi roughly around the same time as he created The Demon and OMAC and after he created the Fourth World saga, all of which are these large worlds that he built up over time in layers, adding narrative block to narrative block to create these concepts that still intrigue and amaze us. Through its artwork, Kamandi Challenge #1 hints at the legacy of Jack Kirby but misses the spirit and chutzpah that Kirby put into each and every page he drew.