His name is Vinnie, he comes from Bay Ridge and he calls himself Captain Brooklyn.
Yeah, a Brooklyn superhero -- other than you.
Brought to life by co-writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Frank Tieri and artist Amanda Conner — Captain Brooklyn, a three-issue Image Comics miniseries, will be released in May.
His formal coming out will be at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan.
Vinnie is just your average Brooklyn guy trying to make it in the city, but when his grandfather gets sick, he gets into trouble with the wrong people, makes some bad choices, and ends up facing deadly consequences.
That's when he finds out about his super powers and things start to get interesting, because he can barely control them.
The colorful Brooklyn characters surrounding Vinnie include his grandfather, his low-life best friend, his hot Russian neighbor and bunch of cats.
Palmiotti, Conner, his wife, and Tieri, his longtime friend, are all Brooklyn connected. They were hanging out one night after a comic con, talking superheroes. When Tieri left early and somebody said "Hey, there goes Captain Brooklyn", Conner begin drawing Frank as Vinnie.
Captain Brooklyn, they say, is an amalgam of all of them.
Tieri calls the Captain Brooklyn series "super-over-the-top", in the spirit of The Pro, a comic about a hooker-turned-superheroine that Palmiotti and Conner worked on -- but even more Chuck Jones-violent.
Palmiotti and Conner have teamed up over the years on projects for DC Comics like Power Girl and All Star Western.
Although Captain Brooklyn is set in Bay Ridge, the story bounces all over Brooklyn, from the Gowanus to Coney Island, drawing on the authors' own Brooklyn memories.
The Brooklyn vibe and the Brooklyn dialect are everywhere in Captain Brooklyn: street smart, full of attitude and big dreams.
Palmiotti thinks it must be something in the pizza.
Palmiotti and Conner have teamed up over the years on projects for DC Comics like Power Girl and All Star Western.
Although Captain Brooklyn is set in Bay Ridge, the story bounces all over Brooklyn, from the Gowanus to Coney Island, drawing on the authors' own Brooklyn memories.
The Brooklyn vibe and the Brooklyn dialect are everywhere in Captain Brooklyn: street smart, full of attitude and big dreams.
Palmiotti thinks it must be something in the pizza.
The article from USA Today.
The New York Post picks up the Captain Brooklyn story.
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