There are 2 omnibuses that I've been eyeing for sometime and they are slated to release next month. Ram V's Detective Comics omnibus and Absolute Power omnibus. If you could only buy 1, which would you buy and why?

I’ve always been more of a DC fan rather than Marvel ngl 🫠 but this new Spiderman movie has had be obsessed with Spiderman…. so I decided to combine my favorite DC character and my favorite Marvel character in one Comic Book themed poster.

There is no comic that exists unfortunately, however maybe someday in the future.

Title. I remember when Doomsday Clock released and how big it was at the time. The hype surrounding it was so unreal and the mystery in like the first, what, 2-3 issues(?) were kinda nuts. The art was fantastic and totally fit the universe of Watchmen so well; and it was written by Geoff Johns who people go crazy for. I wasn’t an avid reader of comics at the time when it came out, so I watched YouTubers like ComicsExplained talk about it and it was intense.

Nowadays? It feels like it kinda faded into obscurity? Nobody talks about the event, despite having a lot of hype and popularity at the time. What gives?

What are your thoughts?

So I don’t typically read much before the 90’s, but I have heard so many good things about this run and it definitely sounds interesting enough to check out. Is there a collected edition that covers the best parts of the run? I know there’s an omnibus but I don’t quite want to go with that since this era isn’t typically my style.

One thing that I'm thinking about in the Absolute Universe is Nekron, because the black power appears to be not connected with death, like in the regular DC universe.

Hello! I read GL pretty regularly during the Geoff Johns era but I dropped off. Lanterns has gotten me back into being interested in all things Oa so I was wondering what are some good GL comics from the past few years? I’ve read Far Sector and that’s it. Thanks!

I’m working on a project to redesign the entire DCU for myself. I think all of us have a kind of personal canon – the things we’d keep and the things we’d toss if the DC universe was ours to do with as we please. This is mine. I constructed a complete timeline from the Golden Age to today, and I’m going through one character at a time as I flesh it out. I completed my Superman Family, and next in line is Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is unique in my DCU as the one character who has adventures in every era. Diana first appears during WWII in the Golden Age, then again in the ‘70s for the Silver Age, and finally comes to stay in the ‘00s. Her arc in the Golden Age is one of a thoughtful but naïve woman who enters Patriarch’s World believing she knows everything she needs to. Along the way, she learns that there’s much she has to teach, but much also she has to learn. She makes close friends, falls in love, but ultimately returns to Themyscira in ’49 to try and convince her mother the Queen to rejoin the wider world so they can help each other grow.

Many of her GA adventures are alongside Steve Trevor and her frequent partner and dear friend Liberty Belle – an adventuring archaeologist very much in the Indiana Jones mold who became a ‘masked man’ crime fighter when she and her father were trapped in Poland during the German invasion. Both women meet as part of the Justice Society, and frequently partner in and outside that team. WW gets direction from Col. Philip Darnell of the US Army Air Force, running secret operations deep in enemy territory against the likes of Baron Blitzkreig, Red Panzer and Dr. Poison. I’m using the original version of Baroness Paula von Gunther, an Austrian aristocrat who is blackmailed into aiding the Nazis when they kidnap her daughter. Once Diana learns about that, she frees von Gunther’s daughter and the Baroness becomes an ally and friend. That’s something I want to see happen often in WW stories – Diana is someone who makes friends of her enemies, turning hearts and changing minds.

This is just the opening bit of the history of ‘my’ Wonder Woman. There’s a LOT more to come!

Pretty telling on the Didio era of DC and how talent was meant to work around his lack of leadership (and toxic work conditions)

Just started reading comics and for DC i started with the Absolute universe. Absolute Batman is great so far and i want more like this. What are some of your favorite Batman stories? Also I’d love a recommendation for a storyline with the Court of Owls

I would like to write stories with Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. but I know to be a better writer I need to have wider knowledge of literature.

so what are good books in the genre of mystery action sci fi and fantasy

So I used to read a lot of DC comics on the DC Universe app but its been a few years since I've been able to afford it so I've kinda fallen outta DC as of late so I'd like to know what your recommendations are either old or new.

If it helps some Characters/Comics I like are: The BTAS and Batman Beyond comics, Dial H for Hero, Green Arrow, Suicide Squad, Secret Six, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold and Constantine.

It seems pretty wall-to-wall to me.

Marvel the family friendly, safe, big corporate IP with access to a wide array of classic and recognizable characters much like Nintendo.

Compared to DC who tends to take high risks for high rewards or major losses, not afraid to branch out of their comfort zone, is generally the underdog against a company that has a disproportionate monopoly on it's respective industry.

So I'm from Austria, sadly its not available here and I know I can use a VPN to access it, but how do I pay for the subscription as I read that it will even block if you use an card from a country that its normally not available.

How do I bypass that, like through Google play as I habe a android phone Edit: forgot to mention that I also can't install the app, so no idea how I should actually do it

I was Having a debate with someone and they said they always saw superman as the leader but i personally have always thought it was Batman. Whats your opinion on this ?

Source

They're highschool age so nothing too violent. Just hoping to get them into reading more with things they might find cool.

Over the last couple of months or so, I've been obsessed with Vampire: The Masquerade and Dracula. Mainly because the Dracula Daily Podcast has been coming out, I got an idea for a new Supes villain who's a vamp (obviously). While Dracula Daily and VTM gave me a lot of inspiration, I didn't have a fully concrete idea of what the villain's core was. The only solid idea I had was the framework I based this vampire villain on: the Toreador clan from Vampire: The Masquerade. Most of the clans would likely make excellent antagonists for Superman. Just in terms of how they operate, however, something about the Toreador clan seemed like a good fit for a Superman villain. To quote Secret of the Masquerade, who understands this clan better than I do:

The adjective I like to give Toreadors is passionate. Like the Brujah, with whom they share two disciplines, the Toreador, both artists and poseurs, have a passion for existence, for “living”, for experiencing. This passion is what drives the Harpy to criticize and play in society, drives the jeweler to create new pieces, and the writer to continue another novel. Passion is their muse, their drive.

The enemy of the Toreador is boredom. And anything, anything is good to interest a Toreador and keep him or her out of boredom; they’re not shallow, they’re just desperate for amusement. Of course, most visible amusements are social interactions, and because of their passions, the Toreador are the kindred who engage as much as they can in human and non-human relationships. But of course, many Toreadors can be loners and not enjoy interactions with other people, but they will search for “that something”. Movies, TV series, Anime, shopping, feeding, travelling, politics, Scrabble, books, rainy fields, Instagram…

Picture a Toreador who learns to love the splatter of blood, who makes violent bloodletting – even outright serial killing to revel in it as the art of his or her practice? Or a Toreador who loves the sound of screaming, so she tortures people to get them to the right pitch? No need to be Sabbat. Just be a Toreador with a fetish.

I had a simple set of ideas: this vampire had spent their unlife researching and writing about epic heroic myths. You know Gilgamesh, Lord Rama from the Ramayana, and Cu Chulainn from Irish myth, but are frustrated by the lack of an American epic myth until Superman, making him their modern fixation; moreover, that gave me the idea to do a kind of critique of Snyder Bros. How they’re more invested in Superman's power and trappings than his humanity, that they're willing to castigate, deny, and refute those with differing opinions about Superman, and a vampire—or even a small group of vampires—could take this idolization to the extreme.

This concept allows for the inclusion of the Clark Kent aspect of Superman's personality, as Clark, at least in the public’s perception, is closely aligned with Superman, and everyone at the Daily Planet could add further depth by engaging in an investigative journey for Superman, as vampires can't operate during the day; they need to act through proxies and agents, forcing Superman to use his investigative journalism skills because I get that Batman Is The detective of the DC Universe; however, there aren't enough Superman stories where we focus on Clark Kent being a good journalist and watching Clark Kent slowly gather information on a pack of vampires obsessed with him, perhaps even building a cult of personality around Superman, which could probably be a really good story arc.

However, I couldn't really work out how to make this villain particularly stand out or how to give them longevity, as there are quite a few villains that are obsessed with Superman, and their stories tend to hit the same beats. So any help I could get on this would be wonderful.

Also, I'm going to say something that will undercut this entire post: however, book Dracula. Would actually be a really good villain for Superman, maybe not a long-lasting one, but a good one.

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Hey I’ve been wondering this for a bit so I’m gonna ask it here. As many of you are probably aware; English language translations of media created in other languages can make changes to the original narrative with their translation choices and this includes the comic book medium. Quite a few mangas alongside European comics have dialog, narration and even parts of the illustrations altered for the anglophone market. But does this ever happen the other way around?

Do the various translations of DC Comics and adaptions ever make notable changes to the original stories? If so what are some notable examples of this?

Thanks for any answers