10 Great DC Elseworlds Comics EVERY Fan Must Read
The greatest alternate takes of the DC universe ever released under the Elseworlds imprint.
DC Elseworlds was an imprint by the eponymous comic book company that ran from 1989 to well into the early 2000's. It was focused squarely on portraying different interpretations and universe of the DC universe, and the heroes and heroines within it.
There were no dedicated long running series within this imprint, but rather a variety of mini-series that gave you brief but lasting glimpses into the alternate reality they showed.
While some were DEFINITELY better than others, some of them rose even higher than that and became all time classics. The best of them providing elements that would later be incorporated into the main universe of the associated characters.
But which one of those were the best? You can probably name one or two of the all time classics, but as is normally the case with comics, there are probably some other truly great stories that slipped under your notice.
Well, we're here to fix that, with the obvious caveat being that they HAVE to have been published under the Elseworlds imprint. Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing holding this list back.
10. Superman: Speeding Bullets
One of the best Elseworlds stories comes from, honestly, a kinda dumb premise. What if Batman...but he was really SUPERMAN?
Not exactly Bruce Wayne if he was Kryptonian, but instead Kal-El of Krypton landing in Gotham instead of Kansas and being adopted by the Wayne family, and being named Bruce Wayne instead.
Things go pretty similar to the original story from there, with the obvious exception of Bruce discovering his powers the night that his parents died and he bakes Joe Chill alive with his heat vision.
For such a silly premise (it's literally grafting the Superman mythos onto Gotham City and hoping it sticks), the story being told is actually genuinely solid. A lot of this comes, of course, from the writing.
Not only figuring out how these two worlds would collide, but through fusing two such disparate mythologies, finding the profound similarities between them when on the surface, they couldn't be more different.
Certainly a lot deeper a story about Superman and Batman than anything Zack Snyder brought to the table.