Fortunately, there was this one story that was in the compilation called The Mighty One that Jack Kirby had written, and I just fell in love with it.Īs we talked about different stories to tell, whether to make up a compilation story or to adapt one, I hit on this one and Jim Krieg did the same. I'm trying to think of how would you take any franchise that's really huge, tell a tiny story and show it to somebody who's never seen any of it and go, "Oh, this is what that entire franchise is." It's really challenging to do. How do we find a little tale that sets up his world and is contained enough that you could tell it in the amount of time we have? And which characters tell you the most of the wacky world? Which character should we include and which when should we not and how much time do we have to do all of this?" The hardest part was what to include and what not to. When we looked into this, we're like, "Wow, this world is way more expansive than we thought it to be. He also gets mentioned in Grant Gustin's The Flash in an off-hand kind of comment. I thought I knew what it was about, and he only makes one animated appearance that I know of, which was on Batman: The Brave and the Bold he was in a couple of episodes of that show. I had some familiarity with the character and the images. I was like, "Yes, absolutely." I knew of the character and his world in real general terms - not like you, who are completely new to the character. Then he called me up and said, "What do you think about Kamandi? We want to do a short." That was the whole thing: Kamandi short. Paul Giacoppo: Well, Jim Krieg and I have been wanting to work on something together he's reached out about a few projects. I know you've worked throughout the animated comic book genre for a while now, but how did your involvement with Kamandi come about? This whole showcase was really quite the amazing collection of shorts. I couldn't agree more, that one was hysterical. I remember Bruce Timm saying something like, "Yeah, we got The Question for the show, and now all I want to do is Question stories," and I think Jeremy and Jen did a fantastic job with the Blue Beetle short. That was my first real experience with The Question as an animated character and Shining Knight and Vigilante, and they just managed to make them all so cool. When I was breaking into animation, I was checking out Bruce Timm's Justice League show and they just have every character they could think of at the time, especially when they did Justice League Unlimited. DC shorts are all about telling people who obscure, but really cool, characters in the DC universe are and then telling a story that makes you want to know more about them. Oh my god, literally that's everything we had hoped for with this. Paul Giacoppo: Can we just stop it there, like interview's over, just write that! Screen Rant: I knew nothing about Kamandi before the short, and now all I want to do is learn more about him. In anticipation of its new release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with writer Paul Giacoppo to discuss Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!, adapting Jack Kirby's unique world, the hindsight of developing an apocalyptic story, and more.
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