![]() ![]() The entire issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race (and to some degree gender) in comics. ![]() It doesn’t feel like a DC comic (and to me that is another plus) and while it ostensibly exists in the world with other DC characters, there has been no overlap with any of the common cast, which has been to its benefit.īut I want to talk about issue #6, which is where the panels above are from. It takes advantage of the conceit of dialing up an endless variety of absurd and strange superheroes incarnations with a winking self-awareness, basking in the weirdness of the genre and paying homage to the cosmic weirdness of the Silver Age, while firmly planted in the grittiness of today’s comics. Let me take this opportunity to give a hearty endorsement for China Miéville’s Dial H – If you only read one of DC’s New 52 (and honestly, there is very little of that worth reading), make it this title. ![]()
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