DC – The Shared Universe http://www.theshareduniverse.com The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:05:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 56882144 DC Universe Subscription: First Impressions http://www.theshareduniverse.com/dc-universe-subscription-first-impressions/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:34 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1712 DC Universe is the new digital portal putting the many media iterations of DC, from comics to shows to movies, literally at your fingertips. Is the DC Universe subscription worth the introductory cost of $74.99 per year or $7.99 per month? I signed up for a year and here are my first impressions. This isn’t […]

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]]> 1712 Sorry, Cracked, but superhero movies haven’t ruined comic books http://www.theshareduniverse.com/sorry-cracked-but-superhero-movies-havent-ruined-comic-books/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 May 2016 17:26:41 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1108 This post is in response to Jason Iannone’s Cracked article “6 Specific Reasons Why Superhero Movies Ruined Comics.” In his post, Iannone builds a starting point for the greater discussion of how the mainstreaming of popular superheroes through film is impacting the medium where they were first created. He makes some interesting observations but ties […]

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]]> 1108 Rebirth: Bay Area Midnight Release Events http://www.theshareduniverse.com/rebirth-bay-area-midnight-release-events/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 May 2016 14:57:17 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1101 In six days DC comics will end the New52 and return much of the DC Universe to the way it was pre-Flashpoint. Some of the elements of the New52 will remain and not all of the pre-New52 elements will return. The company has been careful to not call this a reboot (hence, rebirth) and often […]

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]]> 1101 Signing: Charles Soule at Comix Experience on October 1 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/signing-charles-soule-at-comix-experience-on-october-1/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:00:43 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=896 When I read that Charles Soule would be hosted for a signing at Comix Experience, 305 Divisadero Street in San Francisco, it was difficult to believe. Soule is, as the Comix Experience flyer touts, on of the hardest working writers in the comic book industry. At times he’s carried eight books a month, so it’s […]

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]]> 896 Dead Universes (prologue): A time traveler finds holes in the multiverse http://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-time-traveler-finds-holes-multiverse/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:59:20 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=194 This was intended to be a one or two paragraph introduction to a series I’m working on regarding Dead Universes of the 90s. It’s possible I got a little carried away. If a time traveler leaps from January 1995 to January 2012 and walked into a comic book shop she’d likely at first think very […]

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]]> 194 RetChronicles: Revisiting “Titans Hunt” http://www.theshareduniverse.com/retchronicles-revisiting-titans-hunt/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:58:28 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=93 For a few of years I’ve been haunted by a story arc from The New Titans dubbed “The Titans Hunt.” Since my original reading of the storyline in 1990, it’s lived in my mind as one of the greatest Teen Titan stories ever told. For a couple of years now I’ve wanted to revisit the […]

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]]> 93 DC’s editorial department back in spotlight as Batwoman’s creators step down http://www.theshareduniverse.com/batwoman-departures-put-spotlight-back-dcs-editorial-department/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:34:13 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=172 Last night J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman announced that they’re leaving Batwoman after 26 issues due to editorial interference that included being “prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married.” Williams followed up the posting of his letter on Twitter with the comment “But must clarify- was never put to […]

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