With the recent announcement that James Gunn intends to have his DCU under one umbrella while allowing for an "Elseworlds" line of imaginary stories, I thought it might be a good time to mention my personal favorite Superman Elseworlds stories. Of all the DC characters, Superman is perhaps the easiest to fit into a "what …
World of Krypton is a miniseries published this year and written by rising star Robert Venditti. I’m not sure how this book was received by fans since I didn’t hear much about it, and if there was a lack of enthusiasm I can only guess it’s because the ground it covers has been well tread. …
Geoff Johns’ has often said that the greatest strength of the DC Universe is legacy. He focuses on this quite a bit in his stories, and we’ve gotten some real classics out of it. While I wouldn’t quite go that far with this one, I recently picked up a deluxe edition of Superman: Last Son …
I’ll confess I’ve never been that big a fan of comic book movie adaptations. It always seemed kind of redundant to turn a movie based on a comic... back into a comic? And usually they’re an afterthought not really done by A-listers, anyway. For every Batman movie adaptation by Denny O’Neil, Jerry Ordway and José …
Continue reading Superman Returns- The Prequels: The Donner Movie Adaptation We Never Had
One of the greatest qualities of Marvel’s on-again, off-again series “What If?” is that it explored places that a monthly comic couldn’t or wouldn’t normally go. Famous storylines in the company’s history were revisited with different scenarios and outcomes. There was often more death, more genuine shock and some pretty thought provoking stories. It was …
Continue reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman- A Few Thoughts
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