Rikdad's Comic Thoughts

I started this blog almost 13 years ago. It formed out of a few different motivations: 1) To continue the discussion that many of us had bee...

It is easy to begin Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier , classify it as an "Elseworlds" story, and continue on, reading it...

My earlier post, History of the DC Universe: 1935-1985 , breaks down how DC Comics became committed to a shared and (relatively) consiste...

Introduction The Multiversity Guidebook is the most recent of several publications to offer a summary history of the DC Universe. Si...

Who Took the Super? For much of his 73 years, Superman has been the leading character of the superhero genre. The first of the successful ...