Sticking my neck out: I gotta confess, this is the kind of deeply background-incestuous, convoluted stuff that utterly turned me off comics during collitch. I duly read things the friends recommended but nothing in the superhero genre did anything for me. (Except maybe for one bowel-quaking creepy sequence of Swamp Thing involving pre-Columbian sorcerors bringing about the end times.)

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This is some pretty wacky stuff, and you can see echoes of it in Top Ten, Moore's "superhero city" comic. I think the queer content was a few years ahead of its time, though pretty applicable to both those characters.

Also, it seems to me that Dark Knight 2 covered some of the same ground, and fairly poorly. DK2 was a real cheapening of the original Dark Knight Returns series, which in my books is one of the best comics ever written (although Watchmen has it beat).

Actually, I was under the impression that this alt history was developed with Steve Gerber and Frank Miller...? Steve, you out there...? (And will Void Indigo ever be brought back...? Screw Canada! (No offense meant...))

Wow. I can't stop smiling. I feel like I"m 15 again, cashing my paper route check to go buy the latest issue of "Batman: Year One".This feeling is why I collected superhero comics, once upon a time.

Aside from a Superman/Captain Marvel battle at the climax, I don't see much similarity between this and Kingdom Come.

This has got one of the best time travel story conclusions I've ever seen.

Sweet jimminy crickets, this is really cool to read

Yeah, this has been floating around for years. I vaguely recall a minor dust-up when it was pointed out to Mark Waid that many of the ideas in Kingdom Come were very similar to the Twilight proposal. He denied having read it.