"Captain Planet and the Planeteers (2025 Ongoing)" Talkback (Spoilers)

[wonderfly]

A new take on the Environmental Superhero!

Captain Planet and the Planeteers #1

Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Eman Casallos

Synopsis:
Earth. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart. With their powers combined, they summon Earth's greatest champion: Captain Planet. But they need to learn to trust each other first.

Gaia, the latest High Priestess of the Earth has been kidnapped! Our Planeteers are forced to come together against the newly formed might of Lucian Plunder! Even with Captain Planet on their side, will it be enough to save the very Earth itself?!?

Find out in Captain Planet #1 by writer David (Space Ghost) Pepose along with artist Eman Cassallos and cover artists: Mark Spears, Jae Lee (providing a connecting series of covers across the 1st 6 issues), Ben Oliver and Christian Ward!

A former crime reporter turned Ringo Award-winning comic book creator, David Pepose has written on hit titles such as Space Ghost, Punisher, Savage Avengers, Moon Knight: City of the Dead, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Avengers Unlimited, and Darth Vader: Black, White & Red, as well as acclaimed original series Spencer & Locke, Going to the Chapel, Grand Theft Astro, The O.Z., Scout's Honor, The Devil That Wears My Face, and more.

Captain Planet and the Planeteers, commonly referred to as simply Captain Planet, is an American animated environmentalist superhero television series produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Enterprises and broadcast on TBS and in syndication from September 15, 1990, to December 5, 1992.

Discuss this new ongoing comic below!

 

[Peter Paltridge]

That cover makes me curious. Is this just a completely different take on him? He doesn't look like the type to be making puns.

 

[Yojimbo]

That cover makes me curious. Is this just a completely different take on him? He doesn't look like the type to be making puns.

So far no. He still has the cadence of the cartoon. Only difference is he has a modern day hair do and facial hair. He even makes sure the mercs in the helicopters he defeats aren't harmed.

Basically a reboot set in the 2020s with the same Planeteers getting the rings from Gaia. Though it starts with Plunder's men invading Hope Island and nabbing Gaia but she sent the rings away in time. I think in the cartoon she just woke up from centuries long hibernation and saw what state the planet was in.

 

[Checkerboard]

This really has a nu power rangers vibe.

 

[Scofisticated]

One thing is for sure, Mati is not playing around after getting his ring. I'm still not sure how I feel about that page. I'll see what he is like going forward. But I think he served as a good conscience for the group. Yes and over simplified one (so much about the show was over simplified). But I dont know what to make of him threatening a mine worker with wild animals.

 

[Breakfast Master]

Issue Six's September solicitations reveals the first arc of the title climaxes with

Spoiler

a showdown against Captain Pollution

 

[wonderfly]

Captain Planet and the Planeteers #2

Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Eman Casallos

Synopsis:
CALLING ALL PLANETEERS!

Gaia, the latest High Priestess of the Earth, is under siege by the villainous Lucian Plunder and his never-ending supply of deadly tech and malevolent henchmen. Her only hope is to summon her newly empowered Planeteers to wield their elemental forces of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart against her captors. But will the team be able to come together in time to bring the might of Captain Planet to bear against the polluters' industrial-strength treachery?

The answers lie within this second issue of the all-new Captain Planet, organically grown from the fertile talents of writer DAVID PEPOSE (Space Ghost) and artist EMAN CASSALLOS (Vampirella) - with compostable covers from CHAD HARDIN, CHRISTIAN WARD, BEN OLIVER, and connecting art from JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!

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[wonderfly]

Captain Planet and the Planeteers #5

Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Eman Casallos

Synopsis:
Captain Pollution has seized the day, and things are looking deadly for both the Planeteers and the planet itself! Now, the team must come together one last time and find the strength to summon their most powerful ally for a final showdown against the corrupting force of Lucian Plunder!

Longstanding Friends of Gaia DAVID PEPOSE and EMAN CASALLOS turn up the heat in Captain Planet #5 — offset by cooling covers from CHAD HARDIN, CHRISTIAN WARD, BEN OLIVER, and connecting art from JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!

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[hobbyfan]

I like how the Planeteers have been aged up (especially Linka) oh so slightly. Unfortunately, making Lucien "Looten" Plunder into Capt. Pollution is a giant mistake.

 

[wonderfly]

Captain Planet and the Planeteers #6

Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Eman Casallos

Synopsis:
As the Planeteers take decisive action on the ground, Captain Planet engages the evil and twisted Captain Pollution in an epic duel high above the Earth and the fate of the world hangs in the balance!

Frontline eco-defenders DAVID PEPOSE and EMAN CASALLOS conclude their epochal first story arc in Captain Planet #6 flanked by supporting covers from CHAD HARDIN, CHRISTIAN WARD, BEN OLIVER, and connecting art from JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!

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[Breakfast Master]

Is this book even still running? I don't see it hyped anywhere, not even Pepose comes up on my bluesky feed anymore

 

[Yojimbo]

Is this book even still running? I don't see it hyped anywhere, not even Pepose comes up on my bluesky feed anymore

I think it stopped after #6. Guess sales weren't well and Dynamite didn't renew it for more issues.

 

[wonderfly]

If you want to support writer David Pepose (writer of the Captain Planet comic book), you might check out his Speed Racer comic book (to keep it from avoiding a similar fate):

 

[hobbyfan]

The six issues will be released as a TPB in July.