DC Comics has released an official preview for the next issue of its official Looney Tunes comic, which gives none other than Daffy Duck a Man of Steel-esque superhero origin story.
Written by Derek Fridolfs and penciled by Walter Carzon, Looney Tunes #262 is slated to hit comic shops this coming Tuesday, Sept. 21. The story "Stupor Duped" -- an obvious Superman parody -- finds Daffy Duck playing the role of newspaper reporter Cluck Trent.
Cluck finds himself out of a job as print media gives way to the internet. And, unfortunately for him, his other life as the superhero Stupor Duck isn't going too well at the moment either. Nevertheless, DC's preview offers a peek at Stupor Duck's origin, including the Duck of Steel coming to Earth in a rocket as a baby, not to mention an homage to Grant Wood's American Gothic, of all things.
LOONEY TUNES #262
- Writer: DEREK FRIDOLFS
- Artists: WALTER CARZON and HORACIO OTTOLINI
- Cover: DEREK FRIDOLFS
- $2.99 US | 32 PGS
- ON SALE 9/21/21
- With print publications on the way out and information going online, newspaper reporter Cluck Trent is out of a job. But at least he has his heroic identity of Stupor Duck to fall back on. Or does he? “Up there in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Uh…what is that? Who cares?”
Of course, this wouldn't be the first time Daffy Duck has assumed the identity of a DC superhero. In Duck Dodgers Season 1, Episode 9, "The Green Loontern," Daffy, as Duck Dodgers, finds himself in possession of a Green Lantern suit and power ring. "The Green Loontern" originally aired on Cartoon Network on Oct. 18, 2003.
On top of that, the character of Duck Dodgers is arguably something of a superhero in his own right. This interstellar alter ego of Daffy's first appeared in the 1953 animated short film Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, a parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. The Duck Dodgers character has since appeared in a number of other Looney Tunes productions, including the aforementioned 2003 Duck Dodgers series on Cartoon Network and the 2003 live-action feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Written by Derek Fridolfs and illustrated by Walter Carzon with inks by Horacio Ottolini, colors by Silvana Brys and letters by Wes Abbott, Looney Tunes #262 goes on sale Sept. 21 from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics