The first and most important part of creating a superhero is to develop an exciting origin story, something DC Comics knows better than most. Indeed, many of the common tropes of superhero origin ...

The idea of traumatic origin stories is typical for superheroes, but there are some DC Comics supervillains whose trauma made them as sympathetic as they were evil. This wasn’t always the case. In the ...

DC Comics‘ dark revamp of a Justice League origin story fixes a problem with the original. It is not uncommon for superheroes to have their histories changed to fit modern sensibilities. In this case, ...