In the same way that Marvel Comics has imprints for news report featuringalternate universe versionsof its characters , DC Comics has that in Elseworlds . But that line melt after 2010 , and was semi - supercede with exchangeable enough imprints likeEarth One(which was similarly short - live ) , theBlack Label , and the young grownup pictorial novel line . At this stop , it ’s likely that most kinsfolk would associate the name “ Elseworlds ” with theArrowverse crossing over eventfrom 2018 .
During its board at New York Comic - Con , DC revealedElseworldswould be rejoin next year . The initial six - book lineup will lie in of wholly new story , like Tate Brombal and Werther Dell’Edera ’s phantasy waste story Green Lantern Dark and Greg Smallwood ’s Batman the Barbarian , which reimagines the Dark Knight in a “ broken , medieval Earth . ” But it ’ll also be the prescribed home base for alt - universe tale DC ’s released in recent years : Jay Kristoff and Tirso Cons ’ Deathstroke - focalise Dark Knights of Steel : Allwinter will be an Elseworlds book , as will Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt ’s DC vs. Vampires : World War V.
Elseworlds first began in 1991 with Alan Brennert and Norm Breyfogle ’s Batman : Holy Terror . Stories like Mark Millar ’s Superman : Red Son and Mark Waid and Alex Ross ’ Kingdom Come both have a special place in lector ’ fondness and have helped define DC as a brand . presently , Elseworlds is also the official standard for show or moving-picture show that are n’t canon to whatever movies are being cooked up by James Gunn and Peter Safran . ( See : The Batman , the Harley Quinn cartoon , Todd Phillips ’ Joker movies , and so on . ) With how much DC has liked to adaptcanonandnon - canon storiesfor the full-strength - to - video crowd , it would n’t be surprising to find out that some of these new tales will also get the animate handling within the next several eld .
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More entropy on the Elseworlds books that ’ll be launching in 2024 can be readhere .
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