10 Insane Times Comics Revealed A Hero's Future

1. Every DC Hero - Kingdom Come

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Without any hyperbole, Kingdom Come is the most universally acclaimed superhero comic of all time. It has been praised, dissected, vivisected, over-analyzed, counterpointed and any other form of positive and negative treatment you can think of by basically every comics fan. It is THAT important to the medium as a whole.

As a story set in a future where the idealized nineties anti-hero brand of hardcore justice became the norm, and the classic heroes faded to the sidelines, it is one of the most prolific commentaries on what heroism is, and there's nothing more insane than seeing a world where this plays out.

It is for that reason that this graphic epic as a whole options the most insane future of all. It is a future where Batman is tyrannical in his absolutist view of good and evil; Wonder Woman is bitter and angry with the path the world has chosen; Superman has gone into exile at the death of Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor leads the humans in the war between the superhuman gods.

Futures don't get much more diabolical - or brilliant - than Kingdom Come's.

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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!