DC Comics Is At Its Best When It Reimagines Its Biggest Superheroes
While DC Comics is known for several iconic superheroes perceived to be unchanging, the publisher has been at its best when key characters are drastically reimagined. From Green Lantern to the Flash to Batman Beyond, the DC Universe feels most alive when it is evolving.
Recently, covers for Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League — Superman revealed a new version of Superboy, in which he wears a recolored Robin costume with the ’S’ insignia in place of the ‘R’ on his chest. The reimagined Superboy might seem random, but the character has undergone several iterations since his comic book debut, from a younger version of Clark Kent, to Conner Kent, to the modern day Jon Kent, the son of Superman. Over the course of his existence, he has essentially become a different character. Although heroes are not typically reimagined as a hybrid mash-up of multiple characters, the method is one of many ways which writers and artists consider how to keep the DC Universe feeling fresh.
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The publisher has been at its best when creative teams are given the freedom to envision their own takes on widely recognizable source material. In the Golden Age of the 1930s to the mid-50s, DC Comics looked very different from the publisher just a few years later in the late-50s. The Justice Society of America included the first Green Lantern, Alan Scott, alongside the first Flash, Jay Garrick, who wore extremely different costumes from the ones that fans know today. As writers re-conceptualized the two superheroes, they considered the future of DC and introduced readers to a dramatically different Green Lantern in the form of pilot Hal Jordan, and a very different Flash
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