Comic writer Brandon Montclare joins the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 196 on November 6, 2024. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled four comics by Montclare you should read.
Montclare is a comic book writer with credits to his name such as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Fear Itself: Fearsome Four, and Marvel Voices from Marvel and Rocket Girl from Image Comics. NPR proclaimed his adventure series “effervescent” while Broken Frontier called it “the Saturday morning cartoon you wish was on TV.” Brandon’s next. Brandon has also edited comics such as Madame Xanadu, Detective Comics, Batman and more for DC Comics as well as Sweet Tooth for Vertigo.
His latest comic DuckTales releases on November 6, 2024 from Dynamite Entertainment.
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Lunella Lafayette is a preteen genius who wants to change the world, but lives in fear of the Inhuman genes inside her! Now, Lunella’s life is turned upside down when a red-scaled beast is teleported from the prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call…today! Together they’re the most Marvelous Team-Up of all – Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur! But will they be BFFs forever, or just until DD’s dinner time? And Lunella soon learns that there are other problems with having a titanic T-Rex as a pet in the modern-day Marvel Universe. School, for one. Monster hunters are another – especially when they’re the Totally Awesome Hulk!
Then there’s the fact that everyone’s favorite dino didn’t journey through time alone. Beware the prehistoric savages known as the Killer-Folk – New York City’s deadliest tourists!
Rocket Girl
A teenage cop from a high-tech future is sent back in time to 1986 New York City. Dayoung Johansson is investigating the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for crimes against time. As she pieces together the clues, she discovers the “future” she calls home – an alternate reality version of 2014 – shouldn’t exist at all!
Fear Itself: Fearsome Four
As the Marvel Universe is wracked with FEAR ITSELF, only Deadpool sees it for what it truly is … a way to make money. Has Deadpool really been chosen as one of the Worthy, granted one of The Serpent’s Hammers? Or did he just take any old hammer and go to town with some rhinestones? Plus: do you fear … your protectors turning on you? Man-Thing has gone mad as fear consumes the world, and Manhattan will burn.
A team of talented artists spotlight the dark side of the Marvel universe, each through the eyes of a fallen hero. Howard the Duck, Nighthawk, Frankenstein, and She-Hulk mutate from hero to monster freaks – and instead of saving the city, the foursome just might end it.
DuckTales
The ridiculously wealthy Scrooge McDuck is the most famous resident of Duckburg-but his fortune goes far beyond mere currency. To his young nephews, “Unca” Scrooge is rich in something even more important than money stories!
Whether it’s the saga of how he dug his first million out of the Klondike, or the many times he saved his lucky Number One Dime from the clutches of Magica De Spell, the feisty tycoon is a font of mesmerizing tales and Huey, Dewey, and Louie can’t get enough! But even as they pester their Uncle to share more yarns of his legendary quests and globetrotting treasure hunts, the three boys are about to learn that the most valuable item Scrooge McDuck owns isn’t locked up in his absurdly capacious Money Bin -it’s the lifetime of wisdom he’s got stockpiled inside his head!
DuckTales hits shelves on November 6, 2024 from Dynamite Entertainment.
