Top Ten Tuesday: Best DC Comics Alternate Realities

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By Jeff Hill Features 02/11/2014

Well? We did Marvel on Top Ten Tuesday last week, so it’s only fair that we do DC this time around. Marvel has mastered the art of creating exciting and compelling alternate realities, but where Marvel has excelled, DC has also attempted to duplicate, as is standard for the Big Two’s continued rivalry. Enter: The Multiverse. And later down the line, (but not much later,) the creation of Elseworlds, or the “imaginary tales” format. Some of these are debatable, but I have my reasons. Whether they were intended to be looked at as such, these are all great “alternate reality” takes on classic characters and tales. Here are my favorites.

1. The Dark Knight Returns

2. Kingdom Come

3. Gotham by Gaslight

4. One Million

5. Earth 2

6. Flashpoint

7. Injustice: Gods Among Us

8. DC Animated Universe

9. The Killing Joke

10. The New 52

That’s this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, what are your favorites? Be sure to check out this Saturday’s debate. And, of course, put your own two cents in while you’re there!

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Jeff Hill / About Author

Jeff Hill is a moderately reformed frat boy turned writer who left teaching after 10 years to split his time between Nebraska and New York and focus on his writing career. His work has appeared in dozens of publications and his mom has a binder full of copies for any doubters. He is the Chief Creative Officer of Comic Booked and is currently pitching the novels Dead Facebook Friends and Dead Week to agents in New York and Los Angeles. Jeff is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a regular participant of the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers, and a past faculty member of the Writer’s Hotel. He can be found on both Twitter and Patreon as jeffhillwriter.

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Škorpijon Luna

02/11/2014 at 7:47 pm

I am loving that you put the new 52 as an alternate reality! L.O.L.

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