With The Polarshield Project available for preorder now and hitting shelves everywhere April 2nd, 2019, Paste exchanged a few questions with Pearson to find out more about his take on Jon and Ian, the inspiration behind new character Candace, how he approached the book’s climate crisis and what it was like crossing over from prose to comics. Illustrated by newcomer Ile Gonzalez, The Polarshield Project kicks off a trilogy that re-imagines the titular Super Sons-Jon Kent and Damian “Ian” Wayne-from the ground up, maintaining their familial bonds to Superman and Batman but otherwise largely revamping their heroic journeys.
Pearson, perhaps best known for the Kingdom Keepers series, is first up to bat for DC Zoom with Super Sons: The Polarshield Project.
Designed to reach a readership frequently ignored by mainstream superhero comics, DC Zoom and DC Ink have recruited major prose talent from the middle-grade and YA worlds to write these new adventures, including Danielle Paige, Lauren Myracle, Laurie Halse Anderson, Shannon and Dean Hale, Meg Cabot and Ridley Pearson. The Foxglove Mission is the rare sequel that takes everything readers love about the Super Sons and raises the stakes without losing any of the charm or sense of wonder.One of the comic industry’s most-anticipated moments of 2019 is finally upon us: the launch of DC Comics’ DC Zoom imprint for middle-grade readers (ages eight to 12) and DC Ink imprint for YA audiences (ages 13 and up). While their quests threaten to divide the three of them, it's only through teamwork and trust that they can succeed. Meanwhile, Candace follows clues that hold the key to her destiny, and her journey is filled with twists and turns as she unlocks powerful abilities she never knew existed. In the aftermath of The PolarShield Project, Jon Kent and Damian "Ian" Wayne, the respective sons of Superman and Batman, are on the run! With their hometown in ruins, and in the absence of their heroic fathers, Jon and Ian are on a mission to find a sample of the deadly virus that's threatening Wyndemere and Jon's mother, Lois Lane.
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