There’s a new superhero in town, and she packs a punch of artistic flair and kick-butt powers – introducing Primer!
Ashley Rayburn is a teenage girl who’s jumped from foster home to foster home since she was a kid. Trouble always seems to find her despite her best efforts, and the only constant she’s been able to rely on is her artistic abilities. She’s always had a passion for art, which is why when she finds a set of body paints hidden away in her new foster home, she assumes they’re a birthday present for her.
But these aren’t ordinary paints! They’re a new secret military weapon that, when applied, unlock an arsenal of superpowers. When Ashley puts on the paints she becomes Primer, a new teen superhero whose life is about to change forever!
We’re super excited because creators Thomas Krajewski and Jennifer Muro are dishing out all the deets you need to know about Primer before you pick up your copy. Keep reading to get to know this colorful hero from DC Kids!
Primer is a teenage superhero whose secret identity is Ashley Rayburn. Ashley’s dad is in prison for a lot of crimes, and when Ashley was younger he convinced her to help him with a very serious crime.
Ashley regrets what she did, even though it was NOT her fault, and now she wants to make up for it as Primer!
Primer gets her name from the body paints she wears, because the word “primer” is a paint term. (It also just sounds really cool!)
She has thirty-three different body paints, and each one gives her a different superpower. Ten of those powers are: flight, strength, speed, invisibility, teleportation, telekinesis, self-duplication, shooting ice, shooting fire, and morphing herself to look like anyone she wants. And there are twenty-three MORE powers on top of that!
Ashley is a fantastic artist and her favorite medium is paint, so when she puts on her paints to become Primer, she always uses a cool new design — she never looks the same way twice!
Oh, but she can only use THREE paints at a time. She can’t use any more than that for a very good reason…
Ashley is a foster child who just wants to find a loving family, but that’s hard to do because she’s so mischievous! And when she does find a good family to live with, it’s ALSO when she finds the paints that make her Primer.
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