Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day to everyone celebrating July 4th this weekend! And a happy Canada Day and a happy Bastille Day to our Canadian and French friends! In the coming weeks and months, you can expect to see a whole lot of Earth-1 stories featuring such characters as the Flash, Batman, the New Titans, and the . . .
This entry was posted in Featured on .Welcome to the Five Earths Project
At the end of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the last remaining universes were merged into one and became the current DC Comics Universe. But what if those five Earths were separated after the Crisis and continued on independent of each other? These stories explore what they’d be like. The time is not long after . . .
This entry was posted in Featured on .Happy Father’s Day from the Batman Family
June is Batman month here at the Five Earths Project, and to celebrate, we’ll be posting Earth-2 Batman stories all month! Last week, we published a loose collection of vignettes we titled Batman: Times Past: Sketches of the Caped Crusader, and this week and in the weeks to come you can expect the following stories: . . .
This entry was posted in Featured on .Showcase: The Gray Ghost
by Sandy Hausler
After handing over evidence of corruption to the district attorney, a dirty cop named Buddy Carter finds himself in hot water with the Mob, even though he doesn’t remember doing it! And if the hit man hired to take him out is successful, Buddy is a dead man! His only chance of surviving another day lies in an actual dead man — the Gray Ghost, the spirit of an old hero who has returned to the earthly realm to continue fighting the good fight, despite knowing nothing of his own past!
Showcase: The Gray Ghost, Chapter 3: G Squad
by Sandy Hausler Return to chapter list The Gray Ghost headed down the hill at a good speed. The hill ended when the natural terrain met a wall on the side of the highway. At that point, there was a ten-foot drop to the road. It would be tricky to land at just the right . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .Showcase: The Gray Ghost, Chapter 2: Hugo
by Sandy Hausler Return to chapter list Hugo looked at his watch. He estimated that in twenty minutes Buddy Carter would be dead. He shook his head. The cops were so stupid. The mob wanted Carter dead. They needed him dead. They would do anything to ensure that he was dead… including paying Hugo an . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .Showcase: The Gray Ghost, Chapter 1: Dead Man
by Sandy Hausler Return to chapter list Buddy Carter woke up in his bed. This was a problem, because the last thing he remembered was being at his job at the station. When he realized where he was, Buddy jumped out of the bed and switched on the lights. There was a sign on the . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .Weird Mystery Tales: What if the Flash Won the Race?
by Immortalwildcat, with Doc Quantum
What if Jay Garrick, the Flash, had been successful in his bid to become the next U.S. President? Join Destiny as he explores how some events would have played out differently, and how some events were simply fated to happen, even in this alternate reality.
DC Universe: The Race, Book 4: Endgame
by Immortalwildcat
With the race for the U.S. presidency coming to an end, Jay Garrick and his team expose a plot to manipulate the upcoming vote, but deep questions still remain. Why is the Flash running for office, and for what hidden reasons did his campaign managers approach him in the first place? Is politics simply too dirty a game for a super-hero to be involved? And will the outcome of the election place a puppet in the White House, one way or another? Don’t miss the exciting conclusion of the Race! Guest starring the Justice Society of America!
DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 4: Cutting the Strings
by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Four weeks after election day, Jay Garrick arrived for his first regular meeting of the Justice Society of America since taking a leave of absence for the campaign. As he entered the JSA Brownstone, he encountered the man who had taken his place during the past two years. “Johnny! . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 3: Election Night
by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list The final two months of the campaign passed in a blur, even for the Flash. With Pat Dugan taking over the security detail — much to the chagrin of the Department of Extranormal Operations, or the DEO — there were no further incidents on the campaign trail. Traveling back . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 2: Sleepers Exposed
by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Late August, 1988: The All-Star Party’s nominating convention was a modest affair compared to the earlier conventions of the two major parties that summer. Even Stan Gunderson’s Humanist Party held a bigger event, at least in terms of dollars spent and the arrangements made. However, the two-day affair held . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 1: Political Intrigue
by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Continued from DC Universe: The Race, Book 3: Dirty Tricks “A startling development today in the presidential campaign of Jay Garrick. After the disruption of last week’s presidential debate, there has been much speculation about the source of the attack. Now, an anonymous source close to the Garrick campaign . . .
This entry was posted in Earth-2 on .Have a Happy Mother’s Day
Today isn’t actually Mother’s Day yet, but it is May 1st, and that means a monthly theme image. This month’s image is of Queen Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons and arguably the greatest mother in comics. As the mother of Earth-1’s Wonder Woman (Princess Diana), Queen Hippolyta was responsible for many, if not most, of . . .
This entry was posted in Featured on .Europe gets a few new heroes in The Paragons: Deus Ex Astra
What do you do with a whole bunch of stories and story fragments that don’t fit into the continuity of the fictional world you’ve created? Why, you string all of them together into one massive story that eventually dovetails into a coherent ending, of course! At least that’s what I did when trying to find . . .
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