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The Other History of the DC Universe

By John Ridley
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The Other History of the DC Universe by Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley offers a fresh, compelling look at the DC Universe. This graphic novel reframes iconic moments from DC's history by exploring a sociopolitical thread through the eyes of superheroes from historically disenfranchised groups. Presented in prose paired with vibrant colour illustrations from various artists, this extensively researched work reveals a complex truth behind the familiar mythology. More than a tale about saving the world, it is about finding the strength to be oneself.
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Let It Fall) examines the mythology of the DC Universe in this compelling new graphic novel! Reframing iconic moments of DC history and charting a previously unexplored sociopolitical thread as seen through the prism of DC Super Heroes who come from historically disenfranchised groups, John Ridley goes where no other has gone before!

This unique new series presents its story as prose by Ridley married with beautifully realized colour illustrations from a selection of exciting illustrators and comics artists.

Extensively researched and masterfully executed, The Other History of the DC Universe promises to be an experience unlike any other. You may think you know the history of the DC Universe... but the truth is far more complex. The Other History of the DC Universe isn't about saving the world—it's about having the strength to simply be who you are.

Collects The Other History of the DC Universe #1-5.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781779511973

Publisher: DC Comics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: DC Comics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

John Ridley is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. After both writing and directing his film debut, the 1997 crime thriller Cold Around the Heart, Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and Everybody Smokes in Hell. His novel Spoils of War was adapted into the film Three Kings. Ridley then became a writer and a supervising producer on the NBC crime drama Third Watch. His other novels are The Drift, Those Who Walk in Darkness, and A Conversation with the Mann.

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