10 Criminally Underrated DC Comics You Must Read

8. The Atlantis Chronicles

Heart of Hush Dustin Nguyen
DC Comics/Esteban Maroto

The Atlantis Chronicles was a seven-part miniseries that told the history of Atlantis in a journal type of way.

From the skull-shaped meteor that caused the Great Deluge that sank Atlantis beneath the waves - showing how they evolved to live underwater, and bred with other sea creatures - all the way to Aquaman’s mother being the one chronicling events, the biggest events are shown to us without it ever feeling like a lecture or exposition dump.

Well-received by readers and even responsible for plot threads used in later Aquaman books, it gets overlooked primarily because it’s almost 30 years old and out of date with the modern continuity. However, modern audiences would appreciate it much the same way they would George RR Martin's World of Ice and Fire, with the book acting more as a historical companion piece than an out and out comic.

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A.J. Carey is a child of pop culture, learning to read on comic books and raised like any true '90s child on films way above his age range and network television!