#v; elseworld

[legaciestold]

@everythingheard​ (for constantine)

3.33am. 

cat screeches as thunder sounds, woman suddenly thrown from dream to waking with such a shock that the blanket flies off the bed. rose. rose. rose. something isn’t right. cold sweat drenches body, skin too pale. there’s a girl just out of focus with dark hair. she can see her as if she’s standing there in her dark bedroom. a flash of crayons. there’s pictures. drawn pictures on a wall. lightening illuminates her empty room. angela’s somewhere in-between sleep and the waking room, some place in the middle where sight reveals secrets. cat jumps back on bed, nuzzles against her as if in worry. she doesn’t react. she knows duck is there, but she’s not quite there. she raises off the bed, goes to the window. reflections dancing upon glass. john. she can see him, but younger standing there talking to a woman. she doesn’t understand. as if something is trying to show her the pieces of a puzzle in time but for what purpose she doesn’t know. 

she doesn’t know a very many things. 

her sight growing. her returned sight distracting. reawakening her to a world denied for so long. head tilts, there’s the girl again. she’s drawn another picture, this one of who angela thinks is the girl’s mother, it’s the same woman john was talking to, but he’s in the picture too. why was she seeing this? another crash of thunder, she turns away from the window and looks back upon her room. it’s darker now, the ruminants of light somehow seeming to be consumed by something dark and malevolent. it wants the girl, she realizes though she doesn’t know how she knows. the girl’s in trouble. angela thinks her mother is too. and john.. he knows them. at least that’s what her investigative skills piece together. 

she’s cold, so cold suddenly, dread washing over her in that same way it had the night isobel left this world. she feels connected to this somehow though she doesn’t understand why. maybe it’s the fact she’s connected to constantine, that he saved her sister’s soul and now someone close to him is in trouble. it seems strange though, she might not know him especially well even if they were starting to, but she can’t imagine him hanging out with a some lady and a kid and there’d been nothing in his file about him having a child though there was a mention of him talked to in a missing person’s case in newcastle, england. but then, there’s many things she doesn’t know about him. 

slimy hand touches shoulder. 

angela gasps and turns and sees something that reminds her of the half rotted faces that stared at her in hell. it comes at her and then disappears through her as if it’s warning her to stay away. as if it’s saying that there’s a rose and the rose is theirs. whatever wants the girl has seen her too now. 

mind reels, senses chaotic and on fire. she loses herself in them as if they are consuming her. she hasn’t fully learned how to control them yet, how to focus her mind and not be lost to them when they carry her away. she’s not self aware when her body darts out of her room or when she passes her keys and leaves her apartment still in her pajamas and socks, no shoes. she isn’t aware as cold rain soaks her clothes or that she’s running. ironic and perhaps a blessing in disguise when her and john had discovered their apartments weren’t that far away from each other. images play across her mind. 

danger feels looming. 

closer and closer. on some level, angela understands her sister so much better now. on some level she fears what would happen if her parents came to visit and saw her like this– she’s an adult but so had isobel been the countless times they’d committed her.

footfalls beat against pavement, drowned by the storm sounds around her. if anyone saw her they’d call the police– she is the police but she’s more than that right now. she’s sight itself. she’s a warning. palms beat against his warded door. pounding in the night with little care for his neighbors. she hits the door again but doesn’t speak. her mind is a frenzy. her body is freezing. she doesn’t notice. he opens the door and it’s as if some huge weight that’s been upon her gives way, her stumbling forward into him.

“something’s coming for them! it knows something. it knows what a rose is. it wants to take her or kill her?  i can’t see– i can’t see clearly.. there’s a rose. and you were there! i can see the drawings… rose. there’s a rose, there’s a little girl. it wants to hurt her. it wants to hurt you—” her words come out in a frantic ramble, her body there but her voice far away. she’s still lost, lost in haywire senses. lost in sight without a tether to bring her back. 

[legaciestold]

memories have a way of coming to life within the recesses of ones mind, breathing life into quiet moments of introspection or providing the course for a dreamscape. memories provide lessons and experiences and while diana has lived through ages past, she perhaps has only truly lived within the last century. she certainly has gathered a wide variety of experiences she would have never held upon the island of her birth. diana often recalls some of these events in the stillness of night as the waking world fades into the sounds of the ocean in her mind, lulling her into a slumber she knows sometimes alludes the man at her side.

sometimes she thinks of her adventures with etta so long ago. on more trying nights she thinks of alien terrors. other times, she recalls moments on a farm throughout the years too. she had never intended to become so ingrained within a mortal family unit. she had wanted to see where the man she loved had come from, wanted to learn more about him, find his scent in the walls of his childhood room. yet they had been so welcoming and after time and perhaps some confusion, they had come to understand her in their own way. accepted her youth and presence. such had been how allison and ian had come to know her and how they had later come to her, providing her with something of which perhaps had given her more insight into her own mother than she could have ever held prior.

it's lost in a moment, the dreaming changing the time and place but not the story that finds diana seated on a beach with two children playing next to her and a panda bear seated not four feet from them as if they were all having some kind of picnic. she can taste the salt in the air, smell the sea and feel the coolness of grains of sand. the two children with wide eyes and happy smiles are as real as the day she visited them when their mother held a task and diana had offered to watch over them. of course allison and ian had not been to the island of her own youth nor had they ever had a picnic with a panda (though she had taken them to see a panda once) yet her mind had chosen to meld such experiences together like a life bore of clay.

she stares a moment, perplexed, the strangeness of the panda's presence causing her mind to begin to rebel briefly.

this scene isn't quiet right. but then allison tries to hand the bear her bowl and diana's suddenly distracted from her quandary. 'pandas don't eat macaroni.' diana's voice speaks, the young girl frowning for a moment before shrugging. the panda continues eating the piece of bamboo it held drawing her attention back just as she feels a sudden weight upon her shoulders.

warmth.

the dreaming begins to fall away, swirling memories into shards of sea glass until steve's face begins to come into focus and diana can feel the coolness of their sheets. this is still a new feeling, a new experience, having steve there to experience life with her even if he has been back for a short while now. there had never been time for them, not a century before nor decades ago. but now, now they held time within the palms of their hands. they were learning what it meant to begin life together. to live. to truly live.

"not quite a dream. not quite a memory either." diana states groggily, her body working to adjust to her now awakened state. "panda are ian's favorite animal and let us say that allison went through a phase where all she wanted to eat was macaroni." there's a pause then, her arm raising from her side to reach out and brush the side of his face as if a part of her still can not believe he is real, even if she knows he is. "ian will be so happy to finally meet you. much like allison, he was always a bit starstruck by stories about you." while allison remained close to diana's side often, ian was in school in the states and had yet to be able to meet his great uncle though he was well aware of his return from both allison and diana.

@legaciestold said: ❛ Pandas don’t eat macaroni. ❜ (diana to steve)

It's so much more convenient being an insomniac in the twenty-first century.

That being said, Steve's not entirely certain that's what he is, but it's what he feels like. Falling asleep is no longer an activity he relishes as he once did, when he would go for stretches of time where catching more than a few hours of rest in a comfortable bed was almost euphoric. Now, it rather unsettles him instead. Although Steve doesn't think knows that the gods won't rescind their decision to restore life to him again ( he's too useful to them, they would likely deem it a waste ), he can't help the discomfiture that prickles the back of his mind when he lays there in the dark. What if he closes his eyes, submits to the weight of slumber, and never comes back?

That won't happen, it won't, just — what if?

So, sometimes, when the question grows louder and louder until it drowns out the ticking of his watch on the bedside table, he foregoes falling asleep at any reasonable hour all together. At the very least, there are plenty of twenty-first century ways for Steve to occupy himself without disturbing Diana in the bed beside him. He can listen to any music he wants or these radio programs they call ' podcasts ' now with wireless earbuds, use a softer light from his phone to draw or write — hell, he can even read a book on the damn thing! Insane.

The latter is precisely what he's doing when Diana begins to shift around beneath the covers. For a moment, Steve wonders if he's bothered her until he catches sight of the furrowed expression upon her face. Is she having a nightmare?

"Diana? Diana." Setting his cell aside, he leans over to gently grip her shoulders. However, the nonsensical phrase ( ' Pandas don't eat macaroni ' ) that falls past her lips before she finally opens her eyes leaves him utterly bemused. As their gazes meet, a grin creeps across his countenance. "Shit, what kind of dream were you having?"

[zahri-melitor]

Tim suffers from a situation where he occasionally commits thought crime (thinks about how killing someone would be easier/how he would like someone to be dead/plans out how to kill someone) but does the right thing in person, and doesn't kill people and will act heroically to save even the lives of villains and people he hates. Which gets him cancelled as lacking in morals and being 'two seconds from killing at any time'. While someone like Jason, who commits actual crimes in person but validates the reasons for doing it in his head, gets lauded for why killing drug dealers is excellent and should be morally correct.

Maybe it's a bit law and justice and rules follower of me, but thinking the bad thoughts and still doing the right thing is a better approach than doing the bad thing while telling yourself it's for the right reasons actually.

Actions are more important than what you say in the privacy of your own mind. That's the bit other people can see and interpret.

[groundrunner100]

A bigger debate than real world politics.

[the-army-brat-and-the-nerd]

Clois : Popping the question.

[smashpages]

DC will return to the world of DC vs. Vampires this summer with DC vs. Vampires: World War V by Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt (who did the cover, shown above). This is also part of the bigger Elseworlds line that DC announced at New York Comic Con last year.

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[geekcavepodcast]

DC Comics' Elseworlds Line Returns in 2024

DC Comics has announced the official return on the Elseworlds line of comics. Elseworlds comics are out-of-continuity stories featuring DC's characters. To celebrate, DC also announced upcoming Elseworlds titles - Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age, Batman the Barbarian, Green Lantern: Dark, Batman: Nightfire, and sequels to Dark Knights of Steel and DC vs. Vampires.

Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age is a 12-issue series from Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernandez that will expand the world created by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola. The greatest heroes of the world will come together, forming a 19th-century Justice League to face the greatest threat that the world has known. In the process, the heroes will learn of the world's secret Kryptonian history.

Batman the Barbarian is a 6-issue series from Greg Smallwood. The comic is a retelling of Batman's origin set in a medieval Earth.

Green Lantern: Dark is a 7-issue series from Tate Brombal and Werther Dell-Edera in which the DC Universe is a dark fantasy wastland where monsters overrun a post-apocalyptic Earth. "Now, darkness prevails as humanity struggles to survive on a corrupted planet. Only one hero remains, the one who wields the green flame that can return light to a dark world—The Green Lantern. But she’s been missing for years, and, on the isolated island of New England, the horrors only get worse by the night." (DC Comics)

Batman: Nightfire is a 6-issue series from Clay Mann and Seth Mann. Bruce Wayne tries to "rectify a devastating tragedy by traveling to the past. What secrets does this Batman hold so tight that he would watch Gotham be reduced to ashes? What truths are exposed when there is nowhere left to hide?" (DC Comics)

Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter is a 6-issue series from Jay Kristoff and Tirso Cons set in the world of Tom Taylor's Dark Knights of Steel and inspired by Norse mythology. In the series "the snows fall thick, blood runs black, and color itself is only a distant memory. The legendary assassin Deathstroke stalks a frozen wasteland, killing for coin among a nation of ever-warring jarls. But when our murderer for hire finds himself cast in the role of reluctant guardian, will he fight to end the icy curse destroying his land, or be consumed by the sins of his own dark past?" (DC Comics)

DC vs. Vampires: World War V is a 12-issue series from Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt that serves a a sequel to DC vs. Vampires. Sunlight has been restored to Earth, but did it come too late? "As a new Ice Age dawns, humanity faces their most deadly threat yet—Barbara Gordon Queen of the Vampires!" (DC Comics)

(Images via DC Comics - Covers / Promo Art for DC's Elseworlds Logo, Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age, Batman the Barbarian, Green Lantern: Dark, Batman: Nightfire, Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter, and DC vs. Vampires: World War V)

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: DC vs. Vampires: World War V #5 (of 12)

DC vs. Vampires: World War V #5 preview. Green Arrow and his team successfully infiltrate the vampire strong-hold, but their victory is cut short when they discover the horrifying secret #comics #comicbooks

[casscainmainly]

Hi! I recently stumbled on your blog and immediately had to follow because Cass Cain centered blogs are so rare and this is like finding a hidden gem.

I noticed that you're a comic book reader and I was wondering if you could recommend some comics that explore Cass as a character? Or stories centering her that you particularly like?

Thank you either way and I hope you're doing well 💜

Hi!! I can ABSOLUTELY recommend some Cass comics, it might be my favourite thing in the world to do. If you want to dive into her entire history, check out this reading list from @dailycass-cain (they're a great Cass-centric blog too!).

Here are some of my fav Cass Cain stories:

Batgirl (2000) - the ultimate Cass comic and an excellent starting point. This gives you pretty much everything you need to know about her, and lays the groundwork for all future stories. You could literally read nothing else and still get an excellent Cass experience with these 70+ issues.

Gotham Knights #2 - Gotham Knights is a fun series featuring many of the Bat-cast, and #2 is a Bruce and Cass story set on a sinking ship. This is an incredible one-shot that explores a big aspect of Cass' character, with some excellent Bruce-Cass moments along the way.

Gates of Gotham - set during DickBats time, this is a gem in an era that wasn't kind to Cass. A great Batfam story, this is still the only significant Damian-Cass development we've ever gotten, and the Tim, Dick, and Cass interactions are all so good. This doesn't get talked about nearly enough, please read it!

Tynion's Detective Comics (2016) - this Cass isn't exactly the same as previous runs (she was erased and brought back with a different backstory). However, this run restores a lot of Cass' traits, and has some truly excellent Cass moments throughout. It's also a great run for Batwoman and Tim! I would recommend knowing the history behind New 52/Rebirth, as well as Batman & Robin: Eternal, before reading this.

Shadow of the Batgirl - out of continuity, but this YA graphic novel is actually a great starting point, or a supplementary to everything else. Though events are different, this story really gets Cass; her relationship to Babs, to Batgirl, to language and to culture are really highlighted here. I see this one a lot at libraries, so it might be more accessible than some of the other comics here!

Other comics you can check out are Batgirl (2024) and Birds of Prey (2023). These are ongoing and amazing so definitely check them out (they're not great entry points for Cass, so I would read the above list first). Also, Ram V's Detective Comics is not Cass-centric but has amazing Cass moments, and Spirit World (2023) is a fun Cass adventure that is tied to her Chinese heritage. Finally, DCeased: Unkillables is a really fun Elseworlds story featuring Cass and Jason against zombies. Lowkey the only universe I accept Cass and Jason getting along, so check it out!

[legaciestold]

@everythingheard​​ (bruce)

it was bad enough that kryptonite was in possession of anyone, though, she supposed if it had to be, her fears were tempered mildly by the fact it was bruce and lex. bruce wouldn’t use it against her, or her cousin unless kal gave him a reason to– something of which kara was confident would never happen. they may have been cautious of kal at first, however, he’d gained her trust, and she felt at least a certain level of trust was granted him by bruce now too. and lex…  he wouldn’t use it against her. of that much she was assured of her own judgement of him. they’d known each other since they were young, a time which felt a lifetime ago and they survived the trials and tribulations of zod’s invasion and ramifications of discoveries made in the aftermath. no, he wouldn’t use it against her, but that didn’t mean kara liked the uncertainty which lingered in the back of her mind when the question of other kryptonians was supplied. 

oh she’d raged at both of them when she’d found out lex’s team had pulled the chunk out of the ocean and he’d been harboring it, only calmed after a brutal argument and bruce’s mediation. 

now, however, the issue of kryptonite had come up again, with perhaps more dire ramifications. “i’ve received intel that the d.e.o. has kryptonite.” there was a reason that, despite the fact she had aided the organization a few times, kara had always been extremely cautious of them just like bruce was of institutions like a.r.g.u.s. the d.e.o. existed to deal with alien threats on earth, which, was not something that was unneeded, but they were also controlled by government oversight. what would happen to the aliens they monitored if control over the organization became corrupted? if the military decided someone was a threat that wasn’t one in a rush to judgement? and now they held the very thing that could harm both her and her cousin if they were so ordered. 

kara trusted bruce explicitly. 

she trusted lex too, at least where she was concerned. but the government with kryptonite? kara might be willing to hope for the good in people, but she’d also grown up in a city full of corruption and trained by bruce who always had a contingency for the ‘what if’ scenario. call her cynical in this situation, but that, kara did not trust.

[legaciestold]

"i do not believe anyone, when finding themselves upon the journey of parenthood, knows what they are doing at the beginning." her words come out softly, a light but serious expression upon her features as she looks upon her newer ally and friend. of course, diana had not held a typical childhood and held no true base for understanding how hers differed from so many others; yet, her eyes had been opened to many things within the last few years. she had made many mistakes and formed many assumptions in her excitement to have children in her life, though, as any new parent did, she quickly learned to correct them and adjust. "no amount of training with the amazons or informational books truly prepared me for what it would be like to take in two children who had just lost the only parent in their lives. but you learn as you go and if there's anyone who excels at such it is you, bruce. you will make mistakes no matter how hard to strive not to. what's important is that you do not let those mistakes define what comes after them."

"if you need further proof, look to your relationship with your sister. i know you are of the same age but i have seen you with kara. you look out for her, you train her, you support her. perhaps it is not exactly the same thing, but i believe the fact you are a good brother lends to you being a good father." there were many things of which diana and bruce did not agree upon, yet she had always supported him thus far, it was what a friend was supposed to do. her many years traveling with etta after the war had taught her that. and so diana would steadfastly show bruce all the encouragement she could now. "i never truly imagined it for myself either. yet it appears those children were always fated to be in my life for the gods themselves granted allison power not long ago. it is clear this is the path the fates have given you too."

so many had lost their lives after zod's invasion, with them still reeling from toxins and floods of the previous few years. (even if diana had not been within these twin cities she had seen the news.) but, now there was hope in the wake of tragedy. hope to rebuild. hope in an age of heroes like the songs used to sing about so long ago, but now in a new age. and bruce could bring hope to the life of a boy just as he had when he'd led people in the water, a beacon of light in darkness. and that hope, that light, was something diana strived to see and help cultivate in her interactions with bruce. he could be brutal, so could she at times. yet, bruce was so much more than that in ways she sometimes wondered if he saw in himself. his work to make arkham better, to prove pathways for criminals to find a new, good path.. his work funding of various programs to better the city, to help rebuild, the way he was with his sister, with alfred... perhaps, having a ward would help him upon his own path and open him to so much more. such had her.

@legaciestold said: "i believe it will be good for you, bruce, in the wake of what's happened. the boy too, that you are adopting him. allison and ian bring much joy to my life, even in times of great stress." (elseworld; diana to bruce placed in the aftermath of mos in that timeline)

Good for him.

There are times when Bruce is no longer certain of what precisely that might entail, and part of him resists the insinuation now. If he finds himself shrouded in moments when he fails to do what's best for himself, how is he to care for a child? Even with the reassuring knowledge of Alfred's aid, perhaps this is nothing short of madness.

And yet — when he had seen that lone figure standing amid the rubble that had crushed the boy's parents, it had felt as though the decision was already set in his mind, reservations and madness be damned. For a split-second, Bruce had been thrust back to that night: just a child standing between his parents' dead bodies while their blood trickled and pooled along the cold pavement. What might have become of him and Kara were it not for Alfred? What if this boy didn't have that?

As it had turned out, he had discovered ( during an inquiry as Bruce Wayne as opposed to the Batman ) that Dick hadn't had anyone left alive who cared. Impulse had led Bruce to where he is now, speaking with Diana while his new ward settles in at Wayne Manor.

"I don't know what I'm doing." A shake of his head followed. "He's older than I was when my parents died, but — " His gaze, which had lowered while his mind raced, lifts to meet hers once more. "I never imagined myself as anyone's guardian, not as myself."

[dickgraysonsptsd]

okay and what about YOUR dickie suit opinions? im curious

OKAY YAYYYYY this is very long so do not click the expand button unless you want this thing unleashed on your dash!!

mulletwing + gliderwing. absolutely radiant. stunning. masculine in a deliriously gay manner. the gold feathers/plating look SOOOO good. the wing-like cape is elegant and cheesy in equal measure. he looks COOL and BEAUTIFUL and DISTINCTIVE and ICONIC and OF THE TIMES and LIKE MEN LUST FOR HIM

2. every robin suit with his legs fully out.

3. nightwing 1996 suit. my favorite post-disco suit! the V chevron looks so much sleeker and more beautiful without the bird head imo and it comes with the beloved fingerstripes <3 if i'm just rotating dickie in my mind it's nearly always in this suit <333

4. classic discowing. you look BEAUTIFUL babygirl!!!! special mention to the front of the suit being zippable.... why do you have a zipper there if not for men to use it to expose your chest mid-combat ?

5. riddle of the beast elseworlds corpse fit. this is such a great fantasy reimagining of mulletwing and also bruce keeps dick's corpse in it next to his throne after dick dies which rockets it up the list by sheer brudickosity. (his actual riddle of the beast outfit is so-so, i'd put it in the bottom quarter of his suits total)

6. agent 37. that chest harness is clearly designed for men to grab onto to yank him closer to them. and such a brave choice deserves respect.

7. white knight. for a comic that made me viscerally disgusted with its spineless centrism and sheer fumbling incompetence, dick looks good here! i love his jacket, and although the suit is a fairly generic variation on the rebirth suit as far as i can tell, it still looks sleek and stylish!

8. renegade. as an evil variant on his nw '96 suit, GREAT!!!!! i love that the renegade logo still looks vaguely birdlike but looks MORE like some kind of military plane or drone... very fitting :)

9. redondo suit. i don't care for redondo's art but this suit really has that "mecha pilot's suit getting shredded apart moments before sex" energy and that compels me

10. btas comic sugar glider. look at him. i want to snap him out of the air like a dog biting a floating soap bubble.

11. hipstripes suits. very kind of the artists to mark exactly where men are supposed to grab him

12. n52 suit. i like the chest logo design on this suit A LOT but it's ruined by not being blue T_T and also T_T by being n52 T_T

13. teen titans cartoon time travel episode. the bird logo is far too chunky. points deducted. i also don't care for the silver/metal belt and gauntlets, but they're appropriate for the overall design choices in tt cartoon so they can be forgiven...... THIS time.

14. young justice cartoon. you are nothing to me.

15. titans tv. i love this version of dick as a character (he's sooo pathetic he has such big wet brown eyes he's so pretty he is SO tormented) but the armor on this suit makes it look terrible imo. leaning into a more masculine armored Cool Super Hero vibe for dick is just not the play

16. gotham knights video game suit. the same "you tried too hard to make him masc" issue as above but without brenton thwaite's air of tragic bisexual melancholy

17. all robin costumes with pants. get his thighs out. what's wrong with you. are you jacking off to him with pants ON? what kind of freak pervert are you

18. batman. it makes me so unbelievably sad LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

and a link to strawbearri-frog's which is good and funny

[motion-of-love]

Superman/Clark Kent in live action

Kirk Alyn:

The first actor to play Superman/Clark Kent in live action, in 1948 'Superman' a 15 part film serial was released

in 1950, Kirk Alyn played the role again in 'Atom Man vs. Superman'

George Reeves:

in 1951, George Reeves became the second actor to appear as Superman/Clark Kent in 'Superman and the Mole-Men'

Reeves then went on to play the role in 104 episodes of 'Adventures of Superman' (1952–1958)

Christopher Reeve:

in 1978, Christopher Reeve became the third actor to play Superman/Clark Kent in 'Superman: The Movie'

Reeve also went on to play the role in Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983) and his final appearance as Superman in 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

In 1988, John Newton became the fourth actor to play Clark Kent (Superman in his younger years) in the first season of 'Superboy'

from 1989 to 1992, Gerard Christopher took over the role in Superboy to become the fifth live action Clark Kent

Dean Cain:

In 1993, Dean Cain became the sixth actor to play the role, in 87 episodes of 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' 1993–1997

Tom Welling:

in 2001, we saw Tom Welling become the seventh actor to play the role and begin his journey as Clark Kent on his way to being Superman in 217 episodes of 'Smallville' (2001-2011)

he returned to the role to cameo in Arrowverses Crisis on infinite Earths crossover event (2019/2020)

Brandon Routh:

in 2006, Brandon Routh became the eighth actor to play the role in live action, Routh played the role in Superman Returns (2006)

Routh would later briefly returned to the role as Superman in Arrowverses Crisis on infinite Earths crossover event

Henry Cavill:

In 2013, Henry Cavill became the nineth actor to play the role in Man of Steel (2013)

He also played the role in Batman v Superman (2016), Justice League (2017)/Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and his final appearance as Superman in Black Adam (2022)

Tyler Hoechlin:

Tyler Hoechlin became the tenth actor to play the role first appearing in Supergirl 2x01 before making more appearances in Arrowverse including crossover events 'Elseworlds' & 'Crisis on infinite earths'

then Hoechlin played the role in 53 episodes of 'Superman & Lois'

The series currently airing it's final season as Warner Bros sold 'The CW' and new owners were reportedly looking to cut costs, the series was cancelled but given a limited episode season to finish right.

David Corenswet:

David Corenswet will be the eleventh actor to play the role, he will appear as Superman/Clark Kent in 'Superman' (2025) to be released in July 2025

Hopefully in future there are more actors to play live action Superman/Clark Kent and we get to be entertained by Superman for many years to come.

If you read to the end, Thank you and I hope you have a Super Day/Night

[smashpages]

DC vs. Vampires was the brutal first chapter in a larger war for the fate of Earth! In this upcoming sequel by Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt, sunlight is restored to the Earth, but was it too late? As a new Ice Age dawns, humanity faces their most deadly threat yet—Barbara Gordon Queen of the Vampires!

Coming from DC in 2024 as part of their relaunched Elseworlds line

[geekcavepodcast]

DC Comics Releases More Info On "DC vs. Vampires: World War V"

DC Comics' Elseworld series DC vs. Vampires is expanding with DC vs. Vampires: World War V from writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Otto Schmidt.

"It’s the dead of winter, and any hope for a fragile truce between the Green Arrow-led human heroes and vampire queen Barbara Gordon’s army has been dashed by Damian Wayne and his guerrilla fighters. Damian is the only one fighting back against the bloodthirsty hordes, leaving Green Arrow with a choice: Does he stand and fight or sacrifice the boy in the name of peace?" (DC Comics)

DC vs. Vampires: World War V #1 (of 12) goes on sale on August 14, 2024. Issue #1 sports a main cover by Otto Schmidt, variant covers by Steve Beach, Jae Lee, Riley Rossmo, and Nikola Čižmešija, and a foil variant cover by Homare.

(Image via DC Comics - Otto Schmidt's Cover of DC vs. Vampires: World War V #1)

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