For those who came in late: If you missed last week’s Comics 101, it’s probably a good idea to go back and catch up before diving into this week’s concluding installment. For those of you who can’t be talked into it, here’s the Cliff Notes version: In an effort to explain why some of their […]
With both the DC and Marvel cinematic universes delving into multiverse-based storylines, I’ve been getting a lot of multiverse-related questions lately. Which makes it the perfect time for a refresher course… “What’s the difference between the Justice League and the Justice Society? Who came first?” “If Superman and Batman were around in the 1940s, how […]
These days, a DC Comics event is synonymous with a shift in reality and continuity. All of the big company-wide crossovers in recent times have dealt with that, from Flashpoint which jump-started the New 52 universe, to the mish-mash of realities that was Covergence, and now in the current DC Rebirth that attacks the idea […]
DC Universe: Rebirth #1 reintroduced Wally West, who has finally broken through time to land in a world that has forgotten him. Tethered to the DC Universe by Barry Allen, who remember Wally at the last moment, Wally and Barry begin to tackle the mystery of who changed the world and why. Wally remarks that […]
When I read some of the stories of alternate universes, from The Flash of Two Worlds to Crisis on Two Earths to Crisis on Infinite Earths to all the many, many others, I think of string theory. Strings are one dimensional and smaller than the quarks which make up subatomic particles. These strings still have […]
Something is wrong with the DC Universe, and Wally West is desperately trying to fix it… or die trying. That’s the simple concept behind DC Rebirth, which might be the most complex superhero event of the modern era. By the time this piece will air, most people who will have read the issue will already […]
It’s DC Event month over here at Blastoff and, as we celebrate the Rebirth of the DC Universe, I figured I’d take a look back at an event that I missed when it was first published. Infinite Crisis – written by Geoff Johns and drawn by a team of heavy hitting artists including Phil Jimenez, […]
Flashpoint is most often spoken about as the event series that ushered in the New 52, DC’s line-wide reboot of their universe. Beyond that, it was one of the most divisive storylines while being published, as it debuted an DC universe unlike anything the readers were familiar with: Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war, […]
Our theme this month is “Crisis,” and here with a new banner celebrating DC’s parallel Earths is our Artist-in-Residence Elena Casagrande!
