#Superman Sixth Dimension

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Batman’s look of surprise and intrigue at Old Man Superman’s appearance

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Do you think the Sixth dimension Superman from Scott Snyder's run would be a good look for an older Supe ?

Yes.

Well suited for the Old Superman of PKJ's House of El future in how it evokes regality without actually putting a crown on Clark, but not an outfit I think every elder Superman would wear. Can never go wrong with a Jorge Jimenez redesign.

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One group of polls will go up each day and polls will be a week long! Submissions will remain open through the end of the first round, and I'll add some more first round groups depending on submission numbers! Apologies for the brief absence, I had some personal stuff going on.

Movies that lose by smaller margins may have a chance to return to the bracket at the end of Round 1.

Round 1 Group A

Lilo & Stitch (78%) vs Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (22%)

Pan's Labyrinth (53%) vs Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (47%)

Legally Blonde (96%) vs The Last Temptation of Christ (4%)

Brother Bear (59%) vs Kubo and the Two Strings (41%)

Round 1 Group B

Stardust (47%) vs Heathers (53%)

The Batman (2022) (47%) vs Moulin Rouge! (53%)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (58%) vs Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (42%)

Now You See Me (78%) vs Morbius (22%)

Round 1 Group C

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (29%) vs The Prince of Egypt (71%)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (32%) vs The Princess Bride (68%)

Rogue One (33%) vs Spirited Away (67%)

Goncharov (90%) vs Love Actually (10%)

Round 1 Group D

A Silent Voice (38%) vs Princess Mononoke (62%)

How to Train Your Dragon (65%) vs The Sound of Music (35%)

Knives Out (43%) vs Howl's Moving Castle (57%)

Little Miss Sunshine (42%) vs The Little Mermaid (1989) (58%)

Round 1 Group E

A Quiet Place (45%) vs Zombieland (55%)

10 Things I Hate About You (72%) vs Lemonade Mouth (28%)

Juno (21%) vs The Addams Family (1991) (79%)

The Parent Trap (1998) (54%) vs Bend It Like Beckham (46%)

Round 1 Goup F

Rent (48%) vs West Side Story (2021) (52%)

Elf (39%) vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (61%)

Hairspray (2007) (43%) vs Mamma Mia! (57%)

Clueless (51%) vs Miss Congeniality (49%)

Round 1 Group G

Forrest Gump (50%) vs Kingsman: The Secret Service (50%)

Enchanted (69%) vs Ferris Bueller's Day Off (31%)

Battle Royale (45%) vs High School Musical (55%)

Matilda (1996) (60%) vs Chicago (40%)

Round 1 Group H

Mean Girls (54%) vs School of Rock (46%)

The Hitman's Bodyguard (25%) vs Grease (75%)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (51%) vs Parasite (49%)

The Wizard of Oz (46%) vs Star Wars: A New Hope (54%)

Round 1 Group I

Populaire (13%) vs Labyrinth (87%)

Matilda (2022) (17%) vs Kung Fu Panda (83%)

Superman (1978) (44%) vs The Sixth Sense (56%)

The Martian (65%) vs Trainspotting (35%)

Round 1 Group J

Dune (37%) vs Back to the Future (63%)

Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (44%) vs The Return of the King (56%)

Home Alone (63%) vs Frozen (37%)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (59%) vs Meet the Robinsons (41%)

Round 1 Group K

Crazy Rich Asians (68%) vs The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (32%)

Alien (75%) vs Mulholland Drive (25%)

The Imitation Game (39%) vs The Simpsons Movie (61%)

Castle of Cagliostro (59%) vs Once Upon a Time in the West (41%)

Round 1 Group L

North by Northwest (22%) vs Arrietty (78%)

Scream (53%) vs War and Peace (1966/1967) (47%)

Arrival (18%) vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show (82%)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (55%) vs Night at the Museum (45%)

Round 1 Group M

Steven Universe: The Movie vs Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Everything Everywhere All at Once vs Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Rise of the Guardians vs She's the Man

Pacific Rim vs Treasure Planet (2002)

Round 1 Group N

Deadpool vs Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Pitch Perfect vs Get Out

The Perks of Being a Wallflower vs Mad Max: Fury Road

Inception vs The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Round 1 Group O

The Princess Diaries vs Paddington

Pride vs Velvet Goldmine

Shrek 2 vs The Devil Wears Prada

Saw vs But I'm a Cheerleader

Round 1 Group P

Evil Dead 2 vs Nope

Whip It vs I Love You Phillip Morris

Jennifer's Body vs Ginger Snaps

Bodies Bodies Bodies vs The Social Network

Round 1 Group Q

The Mummy (1999) vs The Silence of the Lambs

Fight Club vs The History of Future Folk

Cyrano vs Beetlejuice

Die Hard vs While You Were Sleeping

Round 1 Group R

Cocaine Bear vs Boy Meets Girl

Clue vs Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Coco vs Wendell & Wild

The Lost Boys vs Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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"During the last 100-200 years, biodiversity loss and species extinction have accelerated, to the point that most conservation biologists now believe that humankind has either entered a period of mass extinction, or is on the cusp of doing so. As such, the event has also been referred to as the sixth mass extinction or sixth extincton.

Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 2 million to 1 trillion, of which over 1.7 million have been documented. More than 99% of all species, amounting to over 5 billion species, that have ever lived are estimated to be extinct.

The intense pain of a broken heart is believed to be part of the survival instinct.

Every Day Hurts

Everybody Hurts

Everything

Everything Burns

For example, scientists witnessing the decline of Australia's Great Barrier Reef report experiences of anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.

"home is where the heart is",

and your home environment is changing in ways you find distressing.

The temporal dimension of liminality can relate to moments (sudden events), periods (weeks, months, or possibly years), and epochs (decades, generations, maybe even centuries).

Sources of information about climate change tell various categories of stories, including personal experiences, community experiences, scientific models, economic forecasts, and prophecies of apocalypse.

after the creation of Adam, God saw that the earth was corrupt and filled with violence, and he decided to destroy what he had created. But God found one righteous man, Noah, and to him he confided his intention: "I am about to bring on the Flood ... to eliminate everywhere all flesh in which there is the breath of life ... ."

Facts can be understood as smaller versions of a larger story,

Chicxulub impact

the Great Dying

A weapon of mass destruction

a biodiversity crisis being driven by human activities which push beyond the planetary boundaries and so far has proven irreversible.

In E. M. Forster's novelette "The Machine Stops" (1909), humanity has been forced underground due to inhospitable conditions on the Earth's surface, and is entirely dependent on "the machine," a god-like mechanical entity which has supplanted almost all free will by providing for humankind's every whim. The machine deteriorates and eventually stops, ending the lives of all those dependent on it, though one of the dying

secretly warns the hero Utnapishtim of the impending flood

A pioneer organism

also called a disaster taxon

occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not.

opens with Gilgamesh roaming the wild

grieving for Enkidu

The Carolina parakeet

old-growth forests that have never been logged

A female thylacine and her juvenile offspring in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., ca 1903

a disaster taxon,

perceives little or no chance of escape, and particularly when the exposure is prolonged or repetitive.

a disaster taxon,

saves his baby son by sending him to Earth in a small spaceship. The ship is too small to carry anyone else, so superman's parents stay behind and die.

a disaster taxon,

travels a great distance and overcomes many obstacles to find the home of Utnapishtim, the soul survivor of the Great Flood, who was rewarded with immortality by the gods.

a disaster taxon,

came of age under the threat of nuclear annihilation."

Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh

Ecological succession is

a lifelong process: one does not get 'over' the death, but instead must assimilate and live with it.

Can't see nothin' in front of me, Can't see nothin' coming up behind I make my way through the darkness, I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me.

Birds are usually the first to inhabit newly-created islands, and seeds, such as the coconut, may also be the first arrivals on barren soil.

The sea calmed and the whirlwind and flood stopped. All-day long there was quiet. All the humans had turned to clay.

The terrain was as flat as a rooftop. Utnapishtim opened a window and felt fresh air on his face.

He fell to his knees and sat weeping, tears streaming down his face. He looked for coastlines on the horizon and saw a region of land.

Eucalypt from the site of Hiroshima Castle, 740m from the hypocenter. The tree survived the atomic bombing, while the castle was destroyed.

Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh

the beginning step

after an extreme disturbance

is Chaos, as it is in the Beginning."

it thrives on roadsides, fallows, pastures, gardens, lawns, footpaths, parks, riparian vegetation, forest and wetland perimeters, waste dumps and disturbed grounds.

In response to the idea that humans may face extinction due to environmental degradation, paleontologist David Jablonsky counters by arguing that humans are a weed species.

The Genesis flood narrative closely parallels the story of the creation: a cycle of creation, un-creation, and re-creation, in which

the uniformity of human nature

must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive

We Are Chaos

Weeds with strong, widespread roots

Pioneer organisms modify their environment and establish conditions that accommodate other organisms

Dandelions benefit neighbouring plant health by bringing up nutrients and moisture with their deep tap roots.

and the bird returns with an olive branch.

the dandelion counsels Gilgamesh

“We’ve got to be one of the most bomb proof species on the planet.”

existing in a state of “constant transformation” known as the Tao, in contrast with the more static view of nature typical of Western thought.

Fast growth

Rapid reproduction

High dispersal ability

Phenotype plasticity (the ability to alter growth form to suit current conditions)

Tolerance of a wide range of environmental conditions (Ecological competence)

Ability to live off a wide variety of food types (generalist)

“Ability to thrive where there is partial or total destruction

live in a variety of habitats, establish a population in strange places, succeed in disturbed ecosystems and resist eradication once established

a disaster taxon,

establishes more readily than other species on nutrient poor soils, and following establishment

the tree provides shade (due to its dense growth) enabling the regrowth of other plant species in the community,

Courage (also called bravery or valor) is the choice and willingness to confront

the Chiculub asteroid

Ea commanded Utnapishtim to demolish his house and build a boat, regardless of the cost, to keep living beings alive.

A pioneer organism, also called a disaster taxon, is an organism that populates a region after a (short-term) natural disaster, mass extinction, or any other event that kills off most life in that area.

Utnapishtim weeps when he sees the destruction. /End ID]

"Disaster Taxon," poem assembled using text from Wikipedia articles

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Batman Superman World’s Finest #28 Review

Batman Superman World’s Finest #28 DC Comics Written by Mark Waid Art by Dan Mora and Travis Mercer Colors by Tamra Bonvillain Letters by Steve Wands The Rundown: While Batman and Superman fight to escape the sixth dimension, Jimmy faces off against a powerful entity. After being infused with Mxyzptlk’s power, Jimmy Olsen finds himself facing off against the entity that has invaded the…

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Arrowverse Viewing Guide: DC Shows in Chronological Order

Introduction Starting With The Arrowverse The DC Universe has brought a vast array of iconic superheroes and villains to life through television shows over the years. Whether you're a long-time fan or a newcomer to the DC Multiverse, watching these shows in chronological order can provide a deep and immersive viewing experience. In this article, we'll guide you through the chronological viewing order of DC shows up to our knowledge cutoff date in 2022. - Arrow (2012-2020) Arrowverse Head Show Begin your journey through the DC TV universe with "Arrow." This show follows the life of billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, who becomes the vigilante Green Arrow. "Arrow" is the first installment of the Arrowverse, a shared universe that incorporates several other DC shows. - The Flash (2014-present) Next in line is "The Flash," which introduces Barry Allen, a forensic scientist who gains super-speed powers and becomes the Scarlet Speedster. This show delves into the science of metahumans and parallel universes, setting the stage for a broader narrative. - Arrow: Season 2 (2012-2020) After starting "The Flash," return to "Arrow" for Season 2, as it features significant crossovers and plot developments that connect the two shows. - DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016-present) "Legends of Tomorrow" gathers heroes and anti-heroes from both "Arrow" and "The Flash" to form a time-traveling superhero team. This show further expands the Arrowverse's multiverse concept and includes various historical and futuristic settings. - Supergirl (2015-2021) Join Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, as she embraces her Kryptonian heritage and becomes Supergirl. This show adds another layer to the Arrowverse by introducing extraterrestrial elements and threats. - Arrow: Season 3 (2012-2020) Returning to "Arrow," watch Season 3 for more character development and pivotal moments that affect the broader Arrowverse. - The Flash: Season 2 (2014-present) Now that you're familiar with Supergirl and the Arrowverse, go back to "The Flash" and catch up with Season 2. The second season features a lot of key events and crossovers. - Arrow: Season 4 (2012-2020) Continue with "Arrow" by watching Season 4, which prepares the ground for even more multiverse exploration. - The Flash: Season 3 (2014-present) Keep following "The Flash" with Season 3, which deepens the mystery of the Speed Force and introduces new elements to the story. - Arrow: Season 5 (2012-2020) The fifth season of "Arrow" is another essential piece of the Arrowverse puzzle, as it continues to develop the characters and overarching narrative. - Supergirl: Season 2 (2015-2021) Return to Supergirl for Season 2 and witness how the character continues to evolve while dealing with new challenges. - The Flash: Season 4 (2014-present) Watch "The Flash" Season 4 to see how the storylines of various heroes and villains continue to intersect and expand. - Arrow: Season 6 (2012-2020) "Arrow" Season 6 keeps the Arrowverse's momentum going, with more action, drama, and superhero team-ups. - Batwoman (2019-present) Introduce yourself to Gotham City's newest vigilante, Batwoman, as she takes on the criminal underworld in her own way. This show expands the Arrowverse and adds another layer to the DC TV universe. - The Flash: Season 5 (2014-present) Return to "The Flash" for Season 5, which explores new dimensions of the Speed Force and delves into the mysteries of time travel. - Arrow: Season 7 (2012-2020) Conclude your journey through "Arrow" with Season 7, as the series moves toward its epic finale. - Batwoman: Season 2 (2019-present) Catch up on the latest adventures of Batwoman in Season 2, as she continues to protect Gotham City. - Supergirl: Season 6 (2015-2021) Finally, wrap up Supergirl's story with the sixth season as she faces her greatest challenges yet.

Conclusion

Watching DC shows in chronological order can be an exciting and immersive experience, as you follow the interconnected stories of your favorite heroes and villains in the DC Multiverse. By following this chronological order guide, you'll gain a deep appreciation for the Arrowverse and the various elements that make up the DC TV universe. Enjoy your journey through these epic adventures! For more articles visit The Matrix Homepage and follow us on Instagram Read the full article

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Lost ideas that might have been

My name is Andrew Kind if you're reading this I am now dead at my own hand. Over the years I have come up with many  story ideas specifically regarding DC Comics and its characters,  at  one point I had hoped to be a writer for DC and make these ideas a reality however given where I am now that's no longer possible however I realized I didn't want to great Lady Death without these ideas surviving in some way so I'm writing them down in this document, if anyone finds these ideas after my end and is inspired to try and make them a reality they have my blessing to do so, the contents of this doc will brief summaries or even shorter notes 

Earth 20306

Despite its long lasting popularity the original Teen Titans animated series has never been made an alternate universe in the DC cosmology so I gave it a designation of my own, I chose Earth 20306 because the series began in 2003 and ended in 2006, if I did end up writing for DC I would try to incorporate the Titans of that universe in a number of stories

Before The Metaverse

In Geoff Johns 12 issue Watchmen/DC Universe crossover Doomsday Clock the main universe where most of DC's comic book stories take place in was revealed to be a "metaverse" that acted as the heart of all reality with Superman acting as the heart of it with every continuity reboot and change in it reshaping the greater cosmos, at the end of the series it was revealed that every time the metaverse changes the event of  Superman's rocket landing on Earth gets pushed forward in time and that the event has been happening in every era since prehistoric man, when I read that I wanted to know what came before the metaverse and eventually came up with the idea that maybe what came before was a version of existence that was more grand, divine and complex than anything we've seen before

Batman: The King of Crime

In the silver age of comics it was revealed that Joe Chill the man who killed Batman's parents Thomas and Martha Wayne was a hired gun for Lew Moxon a gangster who ordered Chill to kill Thomas because he sent him to prison, despite this making Batman's origin more interesting this story element was never used in the comics again, I decided that not only would I bring Moxon back but would make him a contender to be Batman's greatest enemy, the idea would be that Moxon was actually the survivor of a previous version of reality (quite possibly one that came before the metaverse) and was given the ability to survive the destruction and reboots of reality by some unknown dark being in exchange Moxon would have to be responsible for always  creating every version of Batman so one day they could all be combined into a vessel for the dark being, the story that would have all this would be called King of Crime (which is what Moxon would call himself) The story would take place across all Bat books and it would end with Tim Drake being killed (I would also want in writing that they wouldn't bring him back for at least 3 years)

Justice League: Parabrahman 

I don't know if this was supposed to be a stand alone graphic novel, a mini series, or a story arc in whatever ongoing Justice League title would be out at the time, basically the league are lead around by a mysterious being (The Phantom Stranger perhaps?) on a journey through the various levels of existence with the promise of reaching the highest point and learning one of the secret truths behind everything, in the end it's revealed that there is no highest point because the secret is there's always something beyond, even beyond absolutes like infinity, God/omnipotence,  even existence itself, it would also be revealed that like death, nothingness is an illusion, I would want to incorporate metafictional concepts that have never been done before, so I wouldn't start writing until those had been worked out 

The nature of God and Creation

After I read The Sixth Dimension story arc in Scott Snyder's Justice League series I started to wonder not only if The Presence, The Source and The Overvoid were all different forms/aspects of God, but what if God and by extension all Omnipotent beings came from the seventh dimension, this would mean that all beings from the 8th dimension onward were more than Omnipotent and more powerful than God, at some point later I came up with the idea that maybe the true purpose of creation and the real reason behind all the crises and reboots is that creation is supposed to evolve to the point that it transcends its creator, in other words creation goes past God and starts on a perhaps never ending journey through the endless transfinities, everythings and beyonds that lay outside of God  

Superman Run

I wanted to do a run on Superman as a lead up to my big DC event the reason being that the event would be the most transformative to the DCU since Crisis on Infinite earths so it only seemed right that the lead up focus on the character that the DCU started with, I would also make Superman more flawed (so he could actually be interesting for once) such as two instances of him doing drugs one would be a flashback issue of him, Pete, and Lana as teenagers in Smallville trying pot for the first time (I have this hilarious image in mind of Clark floating in the sky in his sleep because of the weed in mind) the other would be him doing peyote in the present and it would result in Myxyzptlyk taking him on the same kind of journey the Justice League would have gone on in Parabrahman (the whole thing would be an homage to Animal Man’s peyote trip during Grant Morrison’s series)

Transcendence (Big DC Event)

This event would be the culmination of everything I would have written for DC at this point, The story would be that God's true opposite as well as the true source of all evil in creation The Anti-God is destroying creation to prevent it from transcending God,this story would have literally every version of every DC character and location from the past and present not just from the comics but from all media, the story would end with Superman gaining Super Omnipotence, defeating the Anti-God and moving creation itself to what lies above God thusly completely transforming it, this would be the first event to reboot everything in the DCU EXCEPT its history but it wouldn't be the last as transcendence events would replace crisis events

DC Comics Presents (Animated Series)

Around the time the DC Nation programming block came on Cartoon Network I came up with my ideal DC Comics animated series the premise would be basically the same as as the Showcase shorts that come with DC Universe animated movies where each episode would focus on one aspect of DC (it could either be one character or multiple) the main differences would be

There would be far less restrictions, it could be any version of any character(s) form any previously shown universe from any medium as well as entirely new versions (maybe even both)

The episodes would potentially lead into bigger story arcs

One episode I had in mind would be a sequel to the original Teen Titans animated series, it would take place years in the future and focus on Raven

The Truth About The Fifth Dimension

Since The Fifth Dimension is imagination itself it is a semi all encompassing realm that contains all imaginable versions of itself with all imaginable origins (there is a possibility that Monitor-Mind The Overvoid is somehow a version of the fifth dimension), it also contains all imaginable versions of realities with dimensions lower than it and leads to all imaginable beyonds above it 

Demiurge

A demiurge is a nigh omnipotent being who does godlike feats of creation on a planetary, galactic, universal, multiversal, or even omniversal scale

Meta Cosmic

Meta Cosmic is anything or anyone beyond such accepted absolutes as infinity, omnipotence, etc

Meta  Conceptual

Meta conceptual is everything that ranges from the meta cosmic to the unknowable

Pata Conceptual

Pata Conceptual is everything beyond the unknowable to beyond what any consciousness can perceive 

For every universe…..

It’s possible that every single universe is connected to an infinite amount of cosmologies each one infinite itself (containing small things like dimensions, multiverses and omniverses up to

things beyond entire everythings and omni truths or the equivalent of) this would mean that every single universe is in a state of omni super position 

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points and laughs, the wet rat batman has fallen for the sunshine dilf superman

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What do you think of Scott Snyder's Justice League outside of the Metal events ?

Great art, a couple great bits, but on the whole it ended up being filler to buy time for Death Metal.

Take for example the Martian Manhunter/Lex Luthor relationship that Snyder spent most of the run building upon. Where did that go? Nowhere! Snyder himself seemed to lose interest by the end, with the final confrontation with Lex being between Lex and Superman. Why didn't he just make that the focus from the start, his portrayal of the Lex/J'onn relationship was basically trying to transplant the Silver Age Superman/Lex broken friendship onto those two? Even more egregious, neither Lex nor J'onn play any major role in the event which is supposed to serve as the big finale, nor does Perpetua who was the main villain of the run ever amount to anything.

Perpetua herself could have been interesting, the idea that humanity is intrinsically evil because of how we are made is a concept that Snyder has long been fascinated by, wth the 2016 election simply increasing his obsession over the idea.

Analyzing human nature through the prism of superheroes, where the goddess who made us is a selfish piece of shit who wants us to be that too, could have led to interesting questions about whether humanity is fundamentally worth saving. Gillen explored similar ideas in the superior Judgement Day event just recently. Having humanity's fall to doom be because we chose that over justice is a genuiely inspired story idea. The Justice League can defeat any external foe, but can they conquer the evil that lurks in humanity's heart? We'll never know, because Snyder never did anything with it.

Now Snyder has said that Hickman's Avengers run was his main inspiration, and you can see how he tried to copy the format of Hickman's run with his JL. But the reason why Hickman succeeded and Snyder failed is that the main Avengers book was never the real focus. They were explicitly the decoy protagonists who just had to buy time for the real protagonists, who were the Illuminati. Secret Wars didn't feature Cap or Iron Man at all, but it could get away with that because the main protagonists of Hickman's New Avengers book - Mr. Fantastic, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Namor and the Cabal, and of course Dr. Doom - simply stepped out of the shadows and onto the center stage with that event, befitting how they were always the main characters of that drama. Plus Secret Wars wasn't just the capstone to Hickman's Avengers run, it was also the conclusion to his Fantastic Four run, the payoff to his exploration of Mr. Fantastic and Dr. Doom's relationship as enemies/rivals. In contrast the JL and the Legion of Doom were supposed to be the main focus of Snyder's run, which makes their lackluster ending and participation in Death Metal stand out.

Lex gets ousted from power in a mini that only serves to undermine all the work Snyder did with him in JL, and I actually enjoyed that Hell Arisen mini! I thought Tynion had a great handle on what made Lex tick, but why make Lex the focus of your run only to discard him unceremoniously? He's kicked to the curb for BWL, who predictably goes on to usurp Perpetua as the Big Bad of Death Metal. Should've just had BWL be on the Legion of Doom from the start, at least then the run might have served some purpose in building towards Death Metal, instead of all the real buildup for BWL reclaiming his spot being done in Batman/Superman and Hell Arisen. I know things were a shitshow behind the scenes with Snyder fighting Didio on 5G, and that's likely why the storytelling doesn't hold up, but all I can judge is what we were given.

Looking back, the only arc that I still unreservadely reccommend is The Sixth Dimension.

It's the one arc that remains a great read in and of itself. It's Snyder's big bombastic storytelling about DC, superheroes, continuity, the nature of reality, and whether we can rise above our fallen natures to be better, all finally singing together the way he was aiming to do. Superman punches a cosmic god so hard, said god joins the good guys, Batman pilots a badass mecha and fights the JL, "Darkseid Is" gets used in a way that actually feels epic again, Jorge Jimenez makes Mxy and Bat-Mite look terrifying and depicts their powers in creative ways. Damn good read, probably Snyder's best arc in a DC book other than Court of Owls for me.

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Superman/Batman Friendship Example #1

SPOILERS FOR JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SIXTH DIMENSION!

This came after Batman seemingly turned on the Justice League, leaving Superman for dead in a pocket dimension of some sort that seemed impossible to escape. But Batman was more or less working undercover with the bad guy of the story, so he had to look like he was willing to sacrifice his teammates. He took a chance that Superman would once again be able to overcome the odds and break free, and of course, he did.

From Justice League vol. 4: The Sixth Dimension.

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Justice League: The Sixth Dimension

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Justice League Vol. 4: The sixth dimension.

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This fucking series man, I LOVE IT!!!

Supes has no right to look that good in that underwear.

Justice League: The Sixth Dimension

Written by Scott Snyder

Art by Jorge Jimenez

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Top 7 Favorite Comics of 2019 - #3 - Justice League #19-25 - The Sixth Dimension - Written By Scott Snyder Art by Jorge Jimenez

As the Justice League attempts to stop Perpetua they are dragged into the multidimensional DC universe. They have a map to the sixth dimension and ask Mxyzptlk to open the door. It turns out that the only person who can go through the door is Superman. After a few seconds of passing through a much older Superman walks back through telling the rest of the League that he knows how to defeat Perpetua. The more time the Justice League spends in this future utopia the cracks in the facade become clear. In another realm of darkness, Superman finds himself trapped, with no means of escape. In addition to this Batmite under the behest of the Legion of Doom battles  Mxyzptlk as they both 4th wall break and unravel the fabric of everything. We have allies who become enemies and enemies who become allies. Snyder always seems to raises the stakes to the highest possible point and we are introduced to so many interesting ideas.

I have liked Snyder’s Justice League run, but this arc, in particular, has been my favorite. I loved seeing the older versions of the League and seeing all that they hoped to accomplish fulfilled. We are introduced to Shayne the future son of Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl. I like how this is explored and their reaction to this son between the current non-romantically involved characters.  I liked the interaction between future Dick Grayson and Batman. Also, I like how Batman is presented with a difficult but logical solution. I love how the story both begins and ends with Superman. There is a thread of a Superman story and it is effective. As he is trapped in the sunless place he reflects on the moments with his father and his son. It truly shows why he’s important not only to Batman and their relationship but to the entire League.

I love the art by Jimenez is so dynamic and beautiful to look at. You can isolate so many panels and hang them straight upon your wall. It’s amazing how consistent he is even across so many issues.

Even though it’s a big story the characters and their dialogue is always front and center. It’s a great story of perseverance and such a good portrayal of Superman. I really loved this arc.