Bloodlines

Fantastic Five: Worst DC Comics Events
Fantastic Five: Worst DC Comics Events
Fantastic Five: Worst DC Comics Events
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years on the Internet, it’s that there’s no aspect of comics that can’t be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of five or ten. And since there’s no more definitive authority than ComicsAlliance, we’re taking it upon ourselves to compile Top Five lists of everything you could ever want to know about comics. Nobody’s perfect, and just because DC is home to some of the world's greatest superheroes and some of the most memorable villains in comic history, that doesn’t mean it hasn’t had its fair share of awful moments as well. This week, we point our all-seeing eye of judgment at five of the worst events in DC's history.
Ask Chris #204: Hitman And Gotham City's Worst Neighborhood
Ask Chris #204: Hitman And Gotham City's Worst Neighborhood
Ask Chris #204: Hitman And Gotham City's Worst Neighborhood
Q: I'm interested in Hitman as a character in the larger DCU, and "the area of Gotham so bad that Batman doesn't go there," because Batman is a dude that has paid multiple visits to a planet literally called Apokolips. -- @kingimpulse A: For those of you who haven't been following the War Rocket Ajax podcast, Matt and I have been spending the entirety of 2014 ranking every single comic book story ever on a master list from the best (Amazing Spider-Man #33) to the worst (Identity Crisis). Last week, we finally got around to Hitman, and while it eventually fell between The Dark Knight Returns and Impulse #3, the conversation that we had about it involved me mentioning that Tommy Monaghan lived in a section of Gotham called "the Cauldron," which was so thoroughly lawless that they didn't even really notice when No Man's Land swept through. There's a pretty obvious reason why it went down that way, of course, but the more I thought about your question, the more I realized that it's the core of Hitman's complicated relationship with the universe where it's set, which is one of the best things about that comic.
Art Adams Model Sheets for DC’s 1993 ‘Bloodlines’ Crossover [Art]
Art Adams Model Sheets for DC’s 1993 ‘Bloodlines’ Crossover [Art]
Art Adams Model Sheets for DC’s 1993 ‘Bloodlines’ Crossover [Art]
DC Comics veteran Chuck Dixon has unearthed some rarely if ever seen vintage Art Adams material in the form of model sheets created for Bloodlines, the much maligned 1993 DC Comics crossover event. The villains of the story, which was told in numerous DC annuals of the time, were a group of parasitic aliens who fed on human spinal fluid...