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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Alternate realities are seductive, aren’t they? They entice you with the familiar, dangling remixed elements of the worlds you know in front of your eyes. Then there’s the thrill of the new randomness that a parallel plane of existence can hold. Alt-earths have been a sturdy concept in speculative fiction and, in superhero comics, they’ve created followings for their specific brands of twisted history.
If you’re here in this programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, you’re still interested in the good stuff.
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, you’re still interested in the good stuff.
Listen: all you gamers who grew up on Dungeon & Dragons, R.A. Salvatore or Gauntlet should be reading DC Comics’ Demon Knights. Written by Paul Cornell, the monthly series throws together a motley crew of medieval adventurers out to defeat powerful necromancers for personal reasons that vary wildly.
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, you’re still interested in the good stuff.
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, you’re still interested in the good stuff.
One of the more impressive things about DC Comics’ New 52 reboot is how they’ve made horror and superheroics co-exist, without either genre seeming diminished. Whether it’s the Rot turning Animal Man‘s life upside down or Batman’s encounter with I, Vampire‘s Andrew Bennett, the mystical terrors that surface in the new continuity don’t seem like they’re afraid of the science-powered do-gooders.
Mark Waid says he’s “reached a point”. A point where he no longer needs his comics collection. He’s got 150 longboxes of comics. He’s done with them. He wants to sell every single comic.
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