Strange Times and Places in the DC Universe

In Elseworlds, hero's and villains are taken from their usual, familiar settings and thrust into alternative worlds, divergent timelines, or parallel realities. Some are strange forgotten times that have existed or histories that might have been. Others are places that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. Origins begin at divergent points and the outcomes of major crises may vary dramatically and in all these imaginary stories made real, it all begins with  the question, 'What if...?'

Wonder Woman: Amazonia

In another reality, Diana is stolen away from paradise by Steve Trevor and the Royal Air Marines of the 19th-century British Empire. Forced to marry the vile Trevor, Diana becomes the star of a London show, re-enacting tales of heroic women immortalized in the Bible. She shows herself to be a true heroine, freeing oppressed women all over the Empire, from the terrible reign of King Jack Planters, alias Jack the Ripper.

Kingdom Come

This futuristic, apocalyptic tale begins in the Kansas wheat fields. A battle between the Justice Battalion and the villain Parasite results in Captain Atom's death and his nuclear energies lay waste to America's heartland. As a disillusioned Superman retreats into seclusion, a new generation of meta-humans, the uncontrollable sons and daughters of the world's greatest superheroes, inherits the Earth. Unfortunately without Superman and his contemporaries to guide them, these super-menaces might well herald Armageddon. As witnessed by a holy man and his spiritual guide, the Spectre, Superman must embrace his role as leader and unite the divided super-heroes lest his adopted world be torn asunder. The fate of all mankind is in the balance.

The Dark Knight Returns

Batman has retired, leaving Gotham in need of a hero as the Mutants, a nihilistic street gang, threaten to overrun the city. When Harvey Dent returns to his old criminal ways as the deranged two-face, the Dark Knight returns with a new Robin, teenager Carrie Kelly, flying at his side. Desperate times call for desperate measures and a darker Caped Crusader takes back Gotham City street by street, battling the Joker one last time. In 'Crime Alley,' Batman makes his final stand against his enemies, the Last Son of Krypton chief among them, as man and Superman decide the Dark Knight's destiny.

Last Son of Earth

Rocketed to distant Krypton from the dying planet Earth, baby Clark Kent is adopted by the scientist Jor-El and renamed Kal-El. Clad in a cumbersome exoskeleton to counter Krypton's oppressive gravity, Kal-El's discovery of a dead Green Lantern's power ring frees him to walk unfettered upon Kryptonian soil before journeying to the planet of his birth in search of his origins. There, amid the ragtag survivors of the blasted world, Clark meets the love of his life, Lois Lane and his greatest foe, Lex Luthor.

At Earth's End

Welcome to the Earth after disaster. It is one year since a bearded and remarkably long-lived Superman helped the young humans Kamandi, Saphira, Sleeper Zom, and the cyborg Ben Boxer to defeat the maniacal Mother Machine, cause of Earth's second apocalypse. When Boxer targets Gotham City for destruction, Superman flies to Batman's old stomping ground armed to the teeth to aid a band of youths and free the remains of Bruce Wayne, alias Batman, from the DNA Dictators.

JLA: The Nail

Imagine a world without the Man of Steel. On an Earth resembling the DC Universe in every way, with all it's requisite heroes and villains save one, for want of a nail Superman was lost. When infant Kal-El's rocket plummeted to Earth, Jonathon and Martha Kent missed their fateful rendezvous with the Last Son of Krypton because of a flat tire...all for want of a nail. Instead Kal-El was adopted by  an Amish family and never ventured forth from his rural backwater to become a hero. That is, until an evil regime outlawed all meta-humans and tried too drive the planet's heroes into imprisonment or extinction. The plains of Kansas become the scene of the final battle between a power-mad Jimmy Olsen and what remains of the world's greatest super  heroes.

Superman: Red Son

What if Kal-El of Krypton had landed on an agricultural collective in the Soviet Union rather than a farm in Kansas? Earth's greatest hero would fight for truth, justice and the Russian way of life as the Soviet's most powerful secret weapon. What follows is an arms race of unparallel intensity as the U.S. commissions it's greatest scientist, the brilliant Lex Luthor, to tilt the balance of power in America's favour. The world stands on the brink of annihilation as Superman assumes leadership of the Soviet Union, bidding to unite the planet under communism.

Bloodstorm

In a Gotham City where vampires rule the underworld, Batman is a bloodsucking monster who hunts those like him. Sating his own bloodlust to cleanse Gotham, Batman finds his undead foes united by the Clown Prince of Crime. Batman's only ally is doomed were, Catwoman Selina Kyle. One-by-one, Batman slays his immortal foes and bathes Gotham in red rain until only one is left. In the end, the Dark Knight knows that the killing might begin anew if a single vampire remains. Commissioner Gordon and Alfred have little choice but to drive a stake through the heart of Batman, bringing him the peace he has long sought.