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Who Watched the Watchmen? DC Universe Rebirth

October 27, 2022 by Ritesh Babu 1 Comment

DC Rebirth era of comic books

It is often said that Watchmen is the most influential comic ever to be released. That comics wouldn’t be where they are without it, for good and for ill. But how did we get here, exactly? More to the point, just what influence did Watchmen provide to the larger world of comics? What, ultimately, is the legacy of Watchmen? Who watched the Watchmen?

Before Watchmen failed. It had proved to be a disaster that nobody seemed to really want more of. DC’s hopes and dreams of winning hearts and minds whilst exploiting the Watchmen IP had come crashing down. Nobody, it seemed, cared about what came ‘before’ Watchmen, much like they weren’t dying for a sequel about what happened ‘after it’. It turned out they just liked Watchmen, on its own.

And so the enterprise of Watchmen exploitation had to be rested…for a while at least.

Enter: DC Universe Rebirth #1

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Gotham City is Hell: Why We Deserve Batman

October 22, 2022 by Steve Baxi Leave a Comment

In Gothic: A Romance, a 1990 Batman story from the pages of Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman finds himself battling a satanic monk who attempts to kill everyone in Gotham City, and offer their souls to the devil in exchange for immortality. His plan rests on Gotham’s specific architecture, utilizing a series of cathedrals designed to place the stress of their weight up towards heaven. Batman eventually stops him, but this poses an interesting question: If the cathedrals of the city point up to heaven, then where is Gotham? The answer of course, is hell.

Gotham City is Hell.

Legends of the Dark Knight #6

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Black Adam and Geoff Johns’ Bastards- Part IV

October 20, 2022 by Ritesh Babu 1 Comment

Picking up where we left off, we now come to the one and only time Geoff Johns ever wrote a proper Shazam/Fawcett solo ongoing, the work that would reshape Black Adam once again.

It would prove to be his final farewell to the character and the mythology he’d worked with for so long. Or…would it?

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Black Adam and Geoff Johns’ Bastards- Part III

October 19, 2022 by Ritesh Babu 1 Comment

Picking up where we left off, we now come to one of the most important initiatives of modern DC comics, and the work that would reshape Black Adam for good once more.

The initiative that still informs what DC is, and which it has never truly been able to escape. We come to The New 52.

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Black Adam and Geoff Johns’ Bastards- Part II

October 18, 2022 by Ritesh Babu Leave a Comment

Picking up where we left off, we now come to one of the most important books of modern DC comics, and the book that would reshape Black Adam for good.

The book that continues to inform and define much of the identity of DC even now. We come, of course, to 52.

[Content/Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault]

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