Exclusive DC Preview: The Kamandi Challenge #9

09/26/2017 09:20 pm EDT

Tomorrow, it's time for Batman writer Tom King and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman to deliver a new issue of The Kamandi Challenge, picking up where Keith Giffen and Steve Rude left off last month.

The concept of The Kamandi Challenge is that each incoming writer/artist team will leave a cliffhanger to be picked up by the previous team, "challenging" them to get the characters out of the mess they've put them in.

At the end of the eighth issue, Kamandi faced off against a giant sea monster, noting that "[expletive], it never ends!"

The series was conceived not only as a fun event series and a way to make the Kamandi property something that DC can use again, but as a celebration of the hundredth birthday of Jack Kirby, which will come later this year.

You can check out the solicitation text below and the preview pages in the attached gallery.

After the epic battle among the animals of last issue, Eisner Award-nominated writer Tom King and legendary artist Kevin Eastman (making his DC interior art debut) weave a suspenseful tale of Kamandi lost at sea! Imprisoned alongside a menagerie, Kamandi devises a plan to escape. Will they ever see land again? Or are they trapped in the veiled Vortex forever?

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