As far as everyone on Earth-Zero is concerned, the Justice League is dead – but in reality, Pariah has used the team’s essences to start creating a brand new multiverse. Each of these worlds is based on an individual hero, and for some, it feels like absolute heaven – at …
Read More »Batman and Superman fuse in Worlds Finest #4 – literally
Superman … Batman – the two most popular characters DC has ever produced, fused into one being. We saw a hint of it a few weeks back on a variant cover of June 21’s Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #4 and speculated a bit on what it could mean, but didn’t have …
Read More »Action Comics Annual 2022 first look – Superman and Mongul had very different childhoods and moms
The cosmic warlord Mongul – created by comic book brand names Len Wein and Jim Starlin – has been menacing Superman and the entire DC Universe for decades, but everybody was a kid once, and for the first time DC readers will get to see Mongul’s formative years and why …
Read More »DC killed Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Justice League – heres how they did it
You’ve known that it was going to happen since January. The World’s Greatest Super Heroes are meeting their end (for real, kinda), but what you still don’t know are the details. Just how would Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, and the rest of the Justice League actually perish in the main …
Read More »Lobo and Nuclear Man join The CW Arrowverse in DCs Earth-Prime #2: Superman & Lois
On April 5, DC brought its popular universe of TV heroes back to the comic shops that inspired them when they released Earth-Prime #1 – Batwoman, a limited comic series set within the CW universe. Shortly after the release of the first book, DC announced that the overarching villain of …
Read More »Flashpoint Batman and Doomsday Clock merge in Flashpoint Beyond
In the main DCU, Bruce Wayne became Batman when his parents Martha and Thomas were murdered in Crime Alley. But in the DC Omniverse, there’s an alternate reality where Bruce was murdered and where his father, Thomas Wayne, became Batman in a 2011 event called Flashpoint. But that Flashpoint world …
Read More »Best Superman villains
As one of the most powerful superheroes in the DC Universe, Superman has his share of equally powerful and dangerous villains – some of whom are upping their own game by joining up with the so-called ‘Dark Army‘ that will seemingly kill the Justice League in April 26’s Justice League …
Read More »Review: Like Silver Age Comics? Youll Love Batman/Superman – Worlds Finest #1
To a contemporary audience, the Silver Age of comics can come off as a bit campy. There’s a reason for that; once you’ve seen Batman track down a modern-day Zodiac killer, it can be difficult to make sense out of the time that he turned into a radioactive zebra. And …
Read More »Heroes punching heroes – the best superhero rivalries in comics
Heroes fighting heroes is a staple of Marvel Comics storytelling, and in 2022 the publisher is leaning heavily on the trope, pitting Thor and the Hulk against one another this spring in ‘Banner War‘ and then upping the ante in the summer when the X-Men, the Avengers, and the Eternals …
Read More »Batman fends off an alien invasion while Superman is MIA in Batman – Fortress
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Gary Whitta and fan-favorite artist Darick Robertson are teaming on a new “brutal and shocking” May-debuting eight-issue series called Batman: Fortress. Batman: Fortress #2 cover (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) Global power and communications are disrupted and Earth is plunged into …
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