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Everyone’s favorite super pet Krypto will fly into theaters this July alongside David Corenswet’s Man of Steel in DC Studios’ hotly-anticipated Superman film. Before that, the Superdog will headline DC’s “Summer of Superman” series, Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, which will explore his origin story.
Per DC, the five-issue Krypto series, which debuts in June, will deliver “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.” Ryan North will pen Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton and collaborate with artist Mike Norton and colorist Ian Herring. In addition to Jae Lee’s main cover, the series’ first issue will arrive with a variant cover by Dustin Nguyen.
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Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton#1 (Of 5)
Written by RYAN NORTH
Art by MIKE NORTON
Color by IAN HERRING
Cover by JAE LEE
Variant cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
DC’s Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton “begins Krypto’s journey on the planet Krypton. Jor-El and Lara are working on a ship capable of keeping someone alive in interstellar space, but when their first test—with Krypto inside—goes catastrophically wrong, the dog is thought lost. Unbeknownst to them, Krypto and his spacecraft merely entered an unexpected space-time gateway, and days later, from his point of view—even though it’s been decades in real time—Krypto lands on Earth.”
DC’s description continues, “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.”
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North is excited to explore Krypto’s early development and arrival on Earth. “Krypto’s origin has always been done at kind of a high level. The little guy starts out on Krypton, ends up on Earth, and helps Superman fight crime,” he began. “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.”
North continued, “Mike Norton’s art captures exactly what needs to be ‘said’ in every scene. Krypto tells us who he is and how he’s feeling like all dogs do: through his expressions, behavior, body language, barks, snuggles, licks, and sighs. Dogs are some of the most expressive animals, and we absolutely love them and I wanted to tell a story that really captured and honored these animals—Krypto in particular.”
The Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton writer added, “Each issue of this miniseries is a complete short story, combining to tell the full story of Krypto the Superdog” continued North. “Throughout these stories, we see Krypto face a strange new world. He travels from town to town, meeting and befriending people, sometimes helping to solve their problems—and sometimes finding problems of his own. He’s a very good dog.”
Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1 will arrive in comic book shops on June 18, 2025.
Source: DC
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