A review by helenareadsbooks
The Other History of the DC Universe by John Ridley

2.5

I appreciate the concept of this story but overall it didn't work for me. Ridley made some great points about the discrimination, racism and injustice these characters have faced, but the writing is way too cynical, bleak and repetitive to be enjoyable (especially in the first two issues). Some of the commentary on characters like Batman and Superman is spot on, while other pieces of commentary on the Justice League were hard to agree with. This comic is also extremely text heavy, which was honestly a slog to get through, and the art never gets a moment to tell the story on its own.