Writer: Dennis O’Neil
Artists: Denys Cowan, Rick Magyar, Malcolm Jones III, Bill Wray
I never thought reading DC Comics would be so intellectually stimulating. Apart from the standard stereotyped superheroes (aka Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash & the Justice League) the ones that would really seem different would be the detective (Batman & Detective Comics) but the truth is, everything DC was doing after the Crisis was dashingly different, turning Superman into a conflicted hero (here & here), Batman into the dark Knight (here) and the Justice League into….well, something completely different (here) and unveiling (now) classic takes on older, established DC Comics characters the all new, and sometimes all Brit way (Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing , Neil Gaiman’s Black Orchid & Sandman, Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol & Animal Man, & Jamie Delano’s Hellblazer). Amidst all of this, is it any wonder that a morally dark, suggested for mature readers title gets the short shift?
