The Dark Multiverse may have given birth to a team of Batmen who embodied all of Bruce Wayne’s regrets and fears, but the perversion of that character wasn’t the only by-product of that twisted reality. In the upcoming Sideways Annual, more of DC’s Silver Age classics will get twisted and warped into monsterous new forms when they rise up from the Dark Multiverse, as DC Nation #4 detailed below.

People need heroes, people need icons and publishers aren’t exactly shying away from creating a more diverse cast of characters for audiences to become emotionally invested in. It’s a double-edged sword however, because rampant change within established comic book characters usually leads to a backlash from the readers who originally supported those titles. A school of thought that has led to “The New Age of DC Comics”.

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