10 Great DC Elseworlds Comics EVERY Fan Must Read
4. Justice Riders
Who doesn't love a good wild west story? There's a reason they dominated the box office for as long as they did, because when they're done right, there's nothing else like them.
When sheriff Diana Prince comes home to her town of Paradise to find it demolished and everyone dead, she rounds up her own posse of superpowered individuals to hunt down the man responsible: railway tycoon Maxwell Lord.
These include an outlaw version of Kid Flash, a Native American Hawkman, and a cowboy Martian Manhunter. Along with various other really clever reinterpretations of classic characters such as Blue Beetle being an inventor and machinist and Guy Gardner being a bounty hunter.
The whole story just has this fun Western energy to it, helped by its writer Chuck Dixon really knowing how to make this genre work in the modern day. Turns out it's a lot simpler than you'd think: just don't be racist against Native Americans. Boom, really bone simple when you get down to it.
Justice Riders is a single issue jam packed with fun cowboy shenanigans, and is a good read for any western fan.