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Maybe this isn’t the most likely combination, but I sometimes wonder how a nuclear war would affect the DC Universe. It strikes me that it would be a little more fun – from a roleplaying perspective at least – than Kingdom Come ever was. Continue reading The DC Universe and Terminator: Salvation  In 1938, two young men named Jerry Seigal and Joe Schuster created not just a character, but an entire genre. Their creation was Superman, a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Although actually, he wasn’t that powerful to begin with – sure, he could leap tall buildings in a single bound, but a) buildings were generally less tall in the Thirties; and b) today he can fly between planets. He didn’t yet have his heat vision, his x-ray vision or his super-breath. He lacked many aspects of his background that we now all know: he worked for the Daily Star, not the Daily Planet; his arch-enemy was the Ultra-Humanite, not Lex Luthor; and the planet Krypton had yet to be invented (so he had no Supergirl, no Krypto, no General Zod and no kryptonite, among others). He would become one of the top-selling characters of all time, and one of the most iconic characters in popular fiction, spawning comics, radio serials, tv shows, movies and even a Broadway musical. Referenced in: Superman Lover – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
Given that it’s never quite clear when in history the events of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy occur – well, actually, there’s no possible way for it to occur in history as we know it, even if you ignore all the supernatural elements – it’s probably just as well to mix it up with something else where fidelity to history is less of a concern. Like in DC Comics. Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean and the DC Universe
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City III: The Last of the Batmen Now, I know I’m not the only person to have noticed that a surprising number of Golden Age heroes – most of them now in the DC Universe – seem to have been based on Flash Gordon characters, not least Flash himself. Or were they? What if the relationship was a little closer than that?
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City II: The First of the Batmen It might look like an unlikely match-up at first, but it’s one of those things: there’s one little piece that fits together perfectly, and the rest extrapolated from there. So without further ado, let’s get on with it:
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City I: The Early Years of Gotham City |
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