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And yet, for many readers, they’re sometimes seen as slightly obscure.
How would you tease the arc for the first few issues?
Nimit Malavia’s main cover for The New Gods #1.(Image credit: DC)
Ram V:Darkseid is gone and the entire cosmos is thrown into chaos because of it.
And that sort of sets in motion the character drama underneath it all.
How does that impact Mister Miracle, Big Barda and their young family?
Nimit Malavia’s main cover for The New Gods #1.(Image credit: DC)
He has to be a father and it’s something he knows nothing about.
How did your first get involved with this project?
What made you want to take on The New Gods?
Pete Woods' variant cover for The New Gods #1.(Image credit: DC)
I also felt like it was time to do something big and expansive.
So I said this was an opportunity for me to come in and potentially reinvent, potentially revitalize it.
Was that a different challenge for you as a writer coming off the back of Detective Comics?
Evan Cagle’s variant cover for The New Gods #1.(Image credit: DC)
So the joy there is doing interesting things with it.
It doesn’t matter if you already know the characters.
What made Evan Cagle the right artist for The New Gods?
Carmine Di Giandomenico’s variant cover for The New Gods #1.(Image credit: DC)
And I feel like nobody else’s work looks like Evan’s in periodical comics now.
Can you say who those are yet?
Jorge, obviously, is one of those.
Some of Evan Cagle’s interior art from New Gods #1.
Jesse Lonergan is doing a four page sequence in issue two.
Jesse’s work is tremendous and he’s a huge New Gods fan as well.
Issue three has Riccardo Federici drawing a significant chunk of it.
We’ll see what schedules work out.
How does New Gods fit into this new DC ecosystem?
Part of The New Gods pitch was that Darkseids absence is going to create the Absolute Universe.
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And so they actually connect the two universes in interesting ways.
So all of that is to come.
The New Gods #1 is published by DC on December 18.
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