Parodying Marvel’s pin-up specials from the 1990s, DC have announced “G’nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition,” a 48-page one-shot where the dog-like Green Lantern presents summertime artwork of the company’s biggest characters, by artists like Amanda Conner, Paul Pelletier, Nicola Scott, Mikel Janín, Daniel Sampere, Gleb Melnikov, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Emanuela Lupacchino, Joëlle Jones, Megan Huang, Terry Dodson, Babs Tarr, Pete Woods, Joe Quinones, Otto Schmidt, Michael Allred, Sweeney Boo, and Jenny Frison.
The special will also include a few stories, such as a reprint of Steve Orlando and Paul Pelletier’s Midnighter and Apollo story, ‘Out There,’ from 2020’s “DC Cybernetic Summer,” and a new, eight-page Penguin story written by Julie Benson and Shawna Benson, with art by Meghan Hetrick. It will have “three potential centerfolds,” which DC will reveal in the coming months.
The comic marks the first starring vehicle for G’nort, who was created by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, and Kevin Maguire, and first appeared in 1988’s “Justice League International” #10. A bumbling and incompetent G’newtian who pestered the Justice League into letting him join them, G’nort has also been a Darkstar, an Orange Lantern, and the sole member of Super Buddies Antarctica (a group Maxwell Lord created to get rid of him.) His archnemesis is Scarlet Skier, a similarly buffoonish Silver Surfer parody who later became his best friend.
“G’nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition” will be released on August 23, with a main cover by Vasco Georgiev, and variants by J. Scott Campbell and Adam Hughes (the former portraying Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle instead of the Green Lantern), as well as a 1:25 variant by Pablo Villalobos. You can check out all the released artwork here.
