10 Comic Book Weapons That Broke All The Rules

DC's Black Label imprint has proven to be one of the publisher's best initiatives over the last few years.

Some seriously great stories have been made that otherwise wouldn't have been in the traditional DC set up - case in point Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, a terrific post-apocalyptic offering from Daniel Warren Johnson that sees Diana wake up in a future where the Earth has been ravaged by nuclear conflict.

At times dispiriting but also simultaneously hopeful, Johnson's comic cuts to the core of what makes Wonder Woman such a compelling hero and does so in a way that hasn't ever been seen before. She's a character caught between two worlds, and she's willing to fight for both of them, but now she's also having to provide hope where there isn't any.

I won't spoil Dead Earth more than is absolutely necessary, but one thing prospective readers should know is that at one point Wonder Woman wields the spine and skull of Superman in battle against the mutated Haedra enemies who threaten her and a surviving enclave of humans. She threads the Lasso of Truth through her old friend's bones, and it makes for some of the most spectacular imagery ever featured in a DC book.

Absolutely do not miss out on this comic. It's wonderful.