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Captain Planet is back after 33 years with a "sexy" makeover and a message that's as important as ever: "Reality has gotten a lot less subtle"

Interview | Writer David Pepose digs into his upcoming Captain Planet comic from Dynamite Entertainment

(Image credit: Dynamite Entertainment) Newsarama: David, we've known each other for a long time, and something that I think is kinda funny is that Captain Planet #1 was announced almost 10 years to the day that you started talking about how much you wanted to make it a comic. Eman put in a lot of small touches, like his hoodie has the number of his favorite football player, and leaning into the walking stick that he had in the original Captain Planet, and giving him a knee-brace. Ma-Tiwas about to stage a kind of a violent revolution, until he encounters the power of Heart, and it cleanses his mind of all rage and anger and violence, and turns him into this avowed pacifist - who can absolutely wreck you.

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