I’m in full on prep mode for AWESOME-tober-fest 2017 right now. It’ll be my 10th year doing it and I’ll be talking about Ghosts!
I have a full slate of stuff lined up; books, movies, comics, and cartoons. It should be a lot of fun. I also have, as usual, a monster/Halloween themed Cavalcade Comics cover ready to go. But before we get there, my friends, I have a completely different Cavalcade Comics cover for you.
My good friend and Hellbent for Letterbox co-host Michael May started up a Thundarr the Barbarian podcast called Thundarr Road where they are following the journeys of our favorite barbarian as he traverses his way through the apocalyptic wasteland of future Earth. However, they aren’t doing it in episode order, they are following his journey geographically as if he actually made the journey from future Manhat all the way across the country west. It’s an interesting journey and it’s been fun so far. In the very first episode they had mentioned the similarities to an old 70s Jack Kirby comic called Kamandi and I thought that was a great comparison and it would have been awesome to see these two characters together. And it’s kismet as Jack Kirby actually did early character designs on the Thundarr cartoon.
So, without further ado, here is the team up between the Jack Kirby Thundarr and Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth.
These guys would totally be post-apocalyptic besties. You could almost imagine that they would have met except Kamandi’s post-apocalyptic world was ruled by hyper intelligent animals and Thundarr’s world is ruled by wizards.
For the Thundarr, Ookla and Princess Ariel in the cover I used one of Kirby’s Thundarr drawings.
As I said, Kirby was brought on in like 1979-1980 to do character designs for the show. There are several of these drawings out there. As you see I had to find an appropriate Sun Sword and add it to Thundarr’s hand.
Kamandi actually comes from Kamandi – The Last Boy on Earth #2 (1973).
If you look in the background of my cover, some of that stuff comes from Kamandi #1 (1972) as well as Kamandi #2 (1973).
So I hope you enjoyed this cover as much as I enjoyed making it. And go check out Michael May’s Thundarr Road podcast. It’s a lot of fun. And stay tuned for the 10th annual AWESOME-tober-fest Halloween celebration in like a month!
