Kingdom Come (New edition) (Paperback)

from Gold_Gato

I'll immediately state my comic book knowledge as being basically zilch, so I have no idea why this ended up in my collection. Must have been walking down the aisles at the old Stacey's bookstore in San Francisco when the cover caught my eye. I think. Anyway, I am grateful to this book for having...

from rodhilton

I thought about the comics that I've enjoyed reading over the years and realized that they were always finite - a specific writer and illustrator with a particular vision for a story, spreading that story out over a specific number of books, and concluding. With that in mind, I decided to check o...

from FFortuna

Kingdom Come is kind of like Watchmen, only with real DC superheroes: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and all the rest. It was published in 1997, is less than half the size of Watchmen, and is absolutely fantastic. The story takes place some time after the classic "metahumans" have retired, and t...

from dschander

The king of DC's Elseworlds series. The story starts about 10 years after the (then-current) mid-1990s DC landscape, with Superman in self-imposed exile/retirement. Without a leader, the rest of the world's superheroes have mostly dispersed as well, leaving only a new generation of super-powered ...

from StormRaven

There can be no denying that Kingdom Come is a beautifully illustrated book. The artwork that is used to tell this Revelations-inspired story using super-heroes as a metaphor for divine and infernal powers is, in a word, stunning. Unfortunately, the story that these illustrations tell simply isn'...