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Kingdom Come

Graphic Novel - 1997 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.6 out of 5

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"Originally published in single magazine form as Kingdom come 1-4"--T.p. verso.
ch. 1. Strange visitor -- ch. 2. Truth and justice -- ch. 3. Up in the sky -- ch. 4. Never-ending battle.
Kingdom Come-the critically acclaimed Elseworlds saga by Mark Waid and Alex Ross-has been collected into a single-volume hardcover, produced by DC Comics and Graphitti Designs. With the addition of 12 new pages of story and art, previously available only in the deluxe slipcase edition, the hardcover edition offers readers the complete version of the DC Universe's ultimate battle. An extensive 18 page design section includes some of Ross's exhaustive preliminary character illustrations, cover legends, a key to cameo appearances, trading-card art and art originally designed for promotional use.

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You can't live forever submitted by pkooger on February 14, 2011, 3:33pm I love comics but it always frustrates me when the actions of the characters have no lasting consequences. Professor Xavier expels a student in one issue and the student is back in the next. Spiderman almost dies from radiation one day and the next he's happily swinging around again. I understand that characters in comics are archetypal and therefore can't be entirely fluid, but I do wonder what Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman will look like when they are eighty years old. Kingdom Come asks the question, "What will the next generation of super-powered people be like," and uses it as the focal point of a story involving dozens, maybe hundreds, of characters from DC comics waging war against each other, with very real consequences.

This is my favorite graphic novel of the DC universe, with the possible exception of The Dark Knight Returns.

batman's awesome! submitted by nasuaada on July 26, 2011, 7:18am batman's awesome!

Fear of the Future submitted by andersonb on June 17, 2013, 2:34pm Kingdom Come takes an interesting look at what the hero's of yesterday might think of the anti-hero's of tomorrow. The comic has a great juxtaposition of optimism and hope that hero's like Superman, Wonder Woman, and to a lesser extent Batman against the anti-hero craze of the 90's and 2000's with hero's like Lobo. Though Lobo doesn't appear in this book for more than a panel or two, characters like him who will pursue 'Justice' by any means necessary and flout law and the value of the individual human life.

Superman has gone into retirement because he feels that the world has rejected what he represented and has turned to a more brutal hero for whom the ends justify the means. While he was away, though crime has almost stopped, the hero's themselves have become the biggest problem that the world now faces. They have no morals or ethics, and spend their lives endlessly fighting each other in battles that cost normal humans their lives and sense of peace. Superman decides something must be done.

I won't wreck anymore of the plot than that. Needless to say the story is deep and interesting, asking questions about the sorts of hero's we choose and what they say about us as a society and what our hope or lack there of is. The Art in this book is beautiful and fully realized.

Ultimately, even though this is one of DC's alternate universe books, I think it is essential reading for those who love superheros and enjoy digging into their place in our culture.

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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : DC Comics, c1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: 228 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1563893177 (hardcover)
9781563893179 (hardcover)
1563893304 (trade pbk.)
9781563893308 (trade pbk.)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Waid, Mark.
Ross, Alex, 1970-

SUBJECTS
Superman (Fictitious character)
Heroes.
Graphic novels.
Wonder Woman (Fictitious character)
Batman (Fictitious character)