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Bendis’ Justice League & The Hierarchy Of Power In DC- Part I

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The date was November 7th of 2017.

It was another day. Just like any other.

Until it wasn’t.

Everyone began shrieking, whether it was in delight or terror.

You had every variation of ‘No way’ ‘Is this a prank?’ ‘OH MY GOD’ ‘Holy shit’ to people screaming ‘YESSSSSSS’ or ‘NOOOOOOO.’ The reaction was instant, massive. And the end result? Absolute chaos. People had joked about it for years. ‘Imagine Bendis writing for DC,’ which was usually followed by ‘Well he did do that one short-story called Citizen Wayne at one point, but yeah.’ It seemed about as likely as Christiano Ronaldo playing for Manchester City. It was but a dream. A fantasy. A What-If that you joked and laughed about as absurdity.

And then it happened.

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Who Watched the Watchmen? DC Universe Rebirth

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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

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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

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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

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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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