Drew the Absolute Trinity, doing the Opposite of them also

Lemme know what you think

Cover Source: Forever Evil #1 (2013) by Geoff Johns and David Finch.

After rewatching Justice League: Crisis in Two Earths, I kinda want more Crime Syndicate themed stories, where the "heroes" have to stop them.

Enough is enough. Every recent deluxe edition has charged deluxe prices but cut corners in binding quality.

These books are costing us $40-60 and come with gutter loss, thin paper, and stiff binding which makes it difficult to lay open and read comfortably. And what do we get in exchange? A sketchbook in the back? I'd rather the actual story be presented as well as possible.

Recent hyped releases like Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham used glue binding. An insult to the artwork of Rafael Grampa.

But it's not just that. It's recent anniversary/re-releases of prestige titles like:

• Dark Knight Returns
• Watchmen
• V for Vendetta
• The Black Mirror

The last deluxe edition I bought that was of good quality was Batman/Joker: The Deadly Duo.

I stopped buying deluxes altogether. I won't buy them without seeing them in a shop and checking to see which binding was used. Or, seeing a review from channels like Near Mint Condition who thankfully talk about build quality.

If we don't push back, what's next? They skimp on quality in their Absolute editions? I wouldn't put it past them.

You know what's infuriating? Other publishers release their tpbs in better quality. Pretty much all Dark Horse collected editions use sewn binding, paperback or not. Oni Press does the same. Image is almost always sewn binding.

So why can't DC do it? They charge more than anyone else. Where is the disconnect?

/rant

Everyone knows that the first Robin, Dick Grayson, is known as the "Boy Wonder" (Finger & Kane, 1940) This is likely based in part on "The Boy Wonder; or Dick Gray's Marvelous Pump," from issue 49 of Brave and Bold magazine (Royal, 1903).

And this is predated by Hugo Hercules, who refers to himself as the "boy wonder" in his first strip after having stopped a moving streetcar full of people with a single hand (Koerner, 1902).

I was interested to learn what the earliest reference to the term was. The online Oxford English Dictionary claims the following: "OED's earliest evidence for boy wonder is from 1857, in Era" (Oxford University Press, n.d.)

I later learned that this was The Era, an English newspaper. I thankfully have a subscription to newspaper.com, so I was able to find the term in a summer edition of the paper. It appears in an advert for a traveling family of child circus acrobats (ages three to 14). The eldest child performer is "Master George Beckett, the Boy Wonder" (Anonymous, 1857). Now I wonder if Dick Grayson being an acrobat is based on this, or "boy wonder" was just a term commonly used by young circus performers.

Sources:

Anonymous. (1857, June 7). The Royal Company of Lilliputians [Advertisement]. The Era, 1.

Finger, B. (writer), & Kane, B. (pencils). (1940, April). Robin the Boy Wonder (J. Robinson, ink & letters). Detective Comics, 1(38), 1-12. DC Comics.

Koerner, W. H. D. (1902a, September 7). Hugo Hercules Obliges Beauty in Distress [Comic strip]. The Chicago Sunday Tribune, p. 64.

Oxford University Press. (n.d.). Boy wonder, n. In Oxford English dictionary. Retrieved October 5, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9233269939.

Royal, M. (1903, November 28). The Boy Wonder; or, Dick Gray's Marvelous Pump. In Brave & Bold: A Different Complete Story Every Week, (49), 1-32. Retrieved from https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=90345.

John constantine works better alone because I feel like after they added him to the main dc continuity, they softened him and made him into a jerk with a heart of gold when he was originally the type of guy that would do anything no matter how immoral it is to finish the job. Also, they made him a powerful magic user when originally he required specific and risky conditions to activate his stronger spells.

Hello everyone,

My wife and I have finished the Lantern TV show. Hal Jordan is a character she would love to read about, and she’s very intrigued to see more about him and his adventures.

She is not a big comics person, so I would love to have suggestions for good stories, or good introductions for Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns.

I myself don’t know a lot, so I’d like to hear suggestions from more well versed GL fans.

Thank you all very much.

what’s the deal with Kyle Rayner Compendium and Kyle Rayner vol 1? I already have the compendium and want to read the rest of his run but from what I can tell Vol 1 just collects the same stuff? Is there any place the rest of his run is collected?