All For None

I just picked up the Justice League: The New Frontier DVD. This is the second straight-to-DVD animated movie released by Warner Bros and DC in the past year, the first being The Death of Superman. This movie is based on Darwyne Cooke’s comic series of the same name, which is collected in two trade paperback volumes and one over-sized hardcover Absolute edition.

The basic premise of the comic/movie is to look back to the early comics of the DC characters like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Cooke wanted to portray the characters as they were originally were in the 40s and 50s, but to infuse their origin stories with the absent historical events of the time, like McCarthyism and the Korean War. There is nothing wrong with this. It is a great premise - super heroes interacting with the history they are a part of. Read the rest of this entry »

Superman #672

Superman Is Bugging Me

Superman can be seen in many comics, but his main titles are Superman and Action Comics. The current Superman issues are written by Kurt Busiek and Action Comics by “Mr. DC”, Geoff Johns. Read the rest of this entry »

Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Superwoman & Batwoman

Credit: DC Comics

These various Search for Ray Palmer one-shots have been less about the Challengers of the Unknown and their search for Ray Palmer, The Atom, and more about highlighting the various realities in the DC Multiverse.

Earth-11 is a world where gender-roles have been reversed, so Superman is Superwoman and Wonder Woman is Wonder Man.

This issue shows the events of Amazons Attack! but as the all-male society, the Amazons, attack the now nearly all female Justice League.

The novelty of this issue was seeing how the gender-role reversals were shown in various heroes. There was little else to this comic, but it was interesting to see the female versions of some heroes, like Columbia instead of Uncle Sam and a female Demon.