If that’s not the greatest name for a comic, then I don’t know what is!
With Astonishing Wolf-Man now over, it looks like Kirkman is keeping Howard around to work on a new all-ages book. While we had originally assumed from the teaser that it was some kind of robot, it looks like it’s actually a crazy awesome robotic dinosaur! Even better! It’s a project that’s been in the works for quite some time now, and now with more free time it’s time to unleash it on the world. As Kirkman reveals in an interview with CBR:
Derek Dynamo is the son of a guy named Doctor Dynamo, and Doctor Dynamo had a colleague named Max Maximus. Together they found a hole in the Earth that went to a place they called Inner-Earth. It’s basically a hollow Earth concept; there’s another Earth inside of our Earth, and it lives in reverse and there’s a butt-ton of dinosaurs in there. [Laughs] It’s this whole other universe on the underside of our world. They started doing experiments and started working in this world, and eventually, Doctor Max Maximus discovered a way to genetically alter a Tyrannosaurus Rex to make it smaller and smarter. But it turns out that he’s a bad guy, and he tried to take over the world with [the T-Rex].
Doctor Dynamo, with the help of his son Derek Dynamo, stopped him and now they’ve formed a team, the three of them. They protect the dinosaur world from Max Maximus and they keep dinosaurs from escaping that world. They also protect a substance they found in this world they called Dynore, which they named after Doctor Dynamo. They’ve got a lot of work to do, and they work out of Seattle. They’re a cool group that saves the world on occasion.
Kirkman also goes on to note that this book will be in it’s own universe and will not be crossing over with Invincible like his other work does, which is a tad unfortunate but makes sense. It’ll be a much different book in terms of how he writes his other stories since this is an all-ages title, but it’s Kirkman and Howard so you can expect and assume good things from both.
For more on the title, check out the Exclusive interview over at CBR.
