elseworlds Archives

Chosen because that's a little like Burt Ward? Chosen to recall Bruce Wayne's ward Dick Grayson? Probably neither, but the film is so rammed with Batman trainspotter detail that you can't rule anything out. In fact, what I was reminded of most watching TDKR is those proto-Elseworlds 'Alfred's Imaginary Stories' yarns that popped up in Batman[...]

A short while ago, Bleeding Cool showed you a few menu screens for a proposed XBox 360 game that would have starred the Batman from the Brian

It paid for my honeymoon and my bathroom back then, you know. The decision by Paul Levitz to pulp DC's Elseworlds Eighty Page Giant back in 1999 came at a fortuitous time for me, as copies were sent to the UK without any problems And three weeks later when we realised there was an issue, I[...]

In 1991, inspired by a story by Mark Waid and Mike Mignola, some check-chasing hack of an editorial fossil at the company began the Elseworlds line featuring, very occasionally, stories which took the idea of a given hero and changed his context An explanation that appeared on the back covers of most of the[...]