DC “Summer of Superman” plan includes a new five-issue DC All In comic book series, Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton by writer Ryan North and artist Mike Norton. Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton is set to debut on June 18, and delivers a heartfelt and moving view of humanity, good and bad, through the empathic eyes of the ultimate outsider: a poor, lost dog, who just happens to have superpowers.
“Krypto’s origin has always been done at kind of a high level,” said North. “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.”
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.
