DC's "Elseworlds"
- Thread starter Michael
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The 1602 series was rather well thought out, which you should expect from Neal Gaiman. Red Son was intersting. Sups' costume getting more and more militaristic was neat. Batman with wool ear warmers not so much. It's always interesting to see how the comic book mythos would work in different settings.
The fanboy inside would like to see something sort of like Eastwood meets 1602. With a Wild west X-men. I've probobly put more thought than really necessary into the idea, but that's for another time.
The fanboy inside would like to see something sort of like Eastwood meets 1602. With a Wild west X-men. I've probobly put more thought than really necessary into the idea, but that's for another time.
David S Poepoe
Banned
I've tried to make an effort to collect most of them. There were two really nice Batman ones at the very beginning, Gotham by Gaslight and Master of Tomorrow, which presented Batman in a steampunk timeline. The series has been hit and miss since the start, tho more hits recently.
Michael and others: go to the following www.dccomics.com and hit the sub title marked message boads. There are boards dealing with Elseworlds and Kingdom Come(seperately). Also boaards on Superman, Supergirl including the forthcoming movie. I liked Kingdom Come and was surprised at who the hero was. No I will not give any spoilers. Read. Seriously ,go to the Website for DC and you'll find anything you want. 
Jonah Hex was awesome. That is sort of what inspired my idea, but the way Amalgram comics worked is that there was only one issue for each story and a good number of them felt to contrived trying toshow the mythos of both characters, and not to get nitpicky but Jona Hex was based on Generation X not X Men proper. It shouldn't be a big deal but when it comes to comics (and Alternate History) I can be a big nerd sometimes.
Here is a pretty decent synopsis of the Amalgam titles:
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics-index-lists/comics-dcmarvel.php
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics-index-lists/comics-dcmarvel.php
I have been a fan for a very long time of Marvel's What if series and DC's Elseworlds. Marvel is supposed to be starting a new What If series this Fall. DC will still put out Elseworld stories, but without the Elseworlds label. I think the Another Nail series is like that.
Some of my favorite Elseworld strories: Kingdom Come, Golden Age, Darkest of night (Bruce Wayne becomes the GL) Speeding Bullets (Kal-el is adopted by Thomas Wayne, becomes Batman after their deaths), some of the Elseworld annuals (World without Superheroes, The Flash annual from that year, Superman annuals that year with the Earth invaded and the heroes having to go underground, JLA defeated by Felix Faust).
Torqumada
Some of my favorite Elseworld strories: Kingdom Come, Golden Age, Darkest of night (Bruce Wayne becomes the GL) Speeding Bullets (Kal-el is adopted by Thomas Wayne, becomes Batman after their deaths), some of the Elseworld annuals (World without Superheroes, The Flash annual from that year, Superman annuals that year with the Earth invaded and the heroes having to go underground, JLA defeated by Felix Faust).
Torqumada
Diamond
Banned
The one that alway sticks in my mind is the Victorious Nazis/Green Lantern one.
Hal Jordan is a 'hero of the Reich' who acquires the Green Lantern and slowly wakes up to the evil of the Reich. Various Green Lantern characters pop up throughout the book. There is also a brief appearance by Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) as a resistance leader. I'll have to dig this one out and read it again now that I'm thinking about it...
There was also a 'Superman's Metropolis' that was pretty decent.
Oh, and one called 'The Wild', which was a fantasy take on Batman, with 'Dark Joker' - an evil necromancer - and Batman as a half-human, half-animal hero. I really liked this one.
Hal Jordan is a 'hero of the Reich' who acquires the Green Lantern and slowly wakes up to the evil of the Reich. Various Green Lantern characters pop up throughout the book. There is also a brief appearance by Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) as a resistance leader. I'll have to dig this one out and read it again now that I'm thinking about it...
There was also a 'Superman's Metropolis' that was pretty decent.
Oh, and one called 'The Wild', which was a fantasy take on Batman, with 'Dark Joker' - an evil necromancer - and Batman as a half-human, half-animal hero. I really liked this one.
I remember reading Camelot 3000 when I was probobly 11. I thought it was a cool idea very well written but I don't remember inb allusions to the classic DC mythos. Especially cool for a boy moving between his King Arther and Sci fi stages as all young boys do.
If the people making the Watchmen movie have any sense they will cast David "To Cool for NYPD Blue" Caruso (Sp?) as Rosharch or however you spell the guys name.