ComicsPRO: Drew Moss Joins ‘ThunderCats X SilverHawks’ #2
by Erik Amaya
And now the whole band is back together.
On Thursday, Dynamite announced regular ThunderCats artist Drew Moss will join writer Declan Shalvey on the second issue of ThunderCats X SilverHawks, the flagship of the three miniseries comprising the crossover event between the titular teams. Shalvey took both writing and art duties on the premiere issue. “I felt it was the right opportunity to invest into the franchise a little more. Why let Drew have all the fun…?” he said in a statement. “I was also looking to write and draw something again, not having drawn a whole comic in nearly a year. The planets aligned, I guess, or Third Earth specifically aligned.”
Moss added, “I am really excited to be working with Declan again and with these characters I grew up with … Drawing the ThunderCats for two years and now getting to work with the SilverHawks too is a dream come true!”
“Drew and I launched this book together and he has built this larger saga with me brick-by-brick over the last couple of years,” Shalvey continues. “I knew if I was going to do art duties on the first issue of this big crossover series, there is no one else who deserves to draw the rest more than Drew. I’m very excited to see what Drew will do on an event-level book like this and it’s so cool to be drawing a series with him, and not just writing for him.”
In that second issue, “both the ThunderCats and SilverHawks squads find themselves reeling. The ‘Hawks descend upon Third Earth, with plans to apprehend every ‘Cat in sight. What they can’t account for is the ferocious feline instincts of Cheetara!” Supporting the issue will be variant covers from Shalvey, Lucio Parrillo, Eric Canete, Chuma Hill, and a cover using art from the animated series.
Elsewhere in the crossover, Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living #2 by Shalvey and Rapha Lobosco sees the sorcerer awakening on Second Earth. Stuck in a cycle where he is both ever-dying and ever-reviving, Mumm-Ra must “make a pact with the Ancient Spirits to learn their magics, and discover the dark cost of immortality.” And in ThunderHawks #2 by Ed Brisson and Vincenzo Federici, the now-SilverHawk armor-clad ‘Cats make preparations to escape from the dystopian future they landed in and “it will take a massive diversion, considerable power … and a sacrifice that will rock the team and the entire comics franchise to its core.”
All three #2 issues arrive in May.
