The Other History of the DC Universe

Product Description
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 color 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.
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.