Hi @DCFanArtClub and welcome to July! This month we are back to three topics picked from 1) New to DCUI, 2) a DC ‘family’ and 3) a wildcard or something from the archives.
For July, those topics are 1) The Warlord, 2) The Green Arrow family and 3) Zatanna!
The Warlord was created by Mike Grell and the original series ran from 1976 - 1988. It has had 3 additional series over the years with the most recent coming in 2009.
It starred Travis Morgan who was a Vietnam vet pilot who passed through a hole in the Earth’s crust and ended up in Skartaris. This was a sword and sorcery world with all the usual trappings of fantastic beasts, scantily clad women and skull codpieces.
The Warlord series has started to be added to DCUI after winning the first fan vote. You can check out the early issues (along with a couple Legends tie in issues near the end of the series) right here.
Incidentally, I was browsing the comic sales at my local Half Price Books and they had a bunch of Warlords for 40 cents each! I bought what was there and one of the issues was nubmer 63 – which just happens to be Dan Jurgens first DC artwork! Pretty cool!
The Dawn of DC is underway and one of the first characters to receive a new series was Green Arrow. The first couple of issues are available here.
For the Green Arrow family, we have characters like Black Canary, Connor Hawke, Roy Harper (aka Speedy, Arsenal or Red Arrow) and others who are all eligible.
To tie this in with our first topic, Mike Grell (him again!) revitalized Green Arrow in the 1980s with The Longbow Hunters and then continued on to write a new ongoing series.
One issue that was recently added to DCUI (number 28) just happened to guest star Travis Morgan and was drawn by Dan Jurgens! I had no idea that Grell and Jurgens had a long history of working together.
The issue was based a lot around the question of why do Ollie and Travis look so much alike? Can’t deny there is a resemblance there.
Rounding out the month is Zatanna! I’ve been trying to fit her into an art club topic for a while now and July seems like a good spot. Her latest series from 2010 is available here with 12 of the issues written by the legendary Paul Dini!
A character with a long history who mostly appeared in the Justice League and various guest spots, she primarily is known for her backwards-speak magic spells and fishnet stockings. The 2010 series was long overdue and really was a chance to flesh out her character.
It also featured some amazing covers and variants by folks such as Brian Bolland and Adam Hughes!
So let’s… warD annataZ!!
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. Cool with Warworld and GA. I’ve wanting to do a Zatanna for a while definitely have something for that one.
LOL, When I read Warlord last night, Travis Morgan did kinda remind me of Oliver Queen with his appearance!
