With her golden lasso and her bullet-deflecting bracelets, Wonder Woman is a beloved icon of female strength in a world of male superheroes. But this close look at her history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery,...

The New York Times bestselling comics series that was the inspiration for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, now on Season 3!
The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is—each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of...

Empowered returns for further misadventures, as a distress-prone girl wonder struggles with life on the superheroic C-list! Clad-or unclad, as fate would too often have it-in her embarrassingly revealing and maddeningly unreliable supersuit, she fights a never-ending battle against overly sensitive super-villains, irrationally envious super-heroines and her own body-image issues! Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Thugboy, plays with fire when he foolhardily...

Evil is everywhere and the world needs the Sorcerer Supreme more than ever. But the Sorcerer Supreme is now--Loki? Say hello to the Master of the Mischief Arts. The Norse lord of lies has the cloak, the spells--he's even got Zelma Stanton as his assistant (and possibly more?). Is this the chance that Loki needed to become a hero at last, or is the god of mischief dangerously close to unlimited power?

"It's the end of the DC Universe as we know it. The Anti-Life virus has ravaged the Earth, turning its population-and most of its greatest heroes-into mindless, ravening zombies. The Justice League has fallen. The survivors are clinging to life. And in these dark times, only the darkest among the world's metahumans will survive! Led by Deathstroke, the world's greatest assassin, a lethal crew of villains and antiheroes has survived the initial onslaught,...

Back from the dead, Damian Wayne is reassessing his life, and that includes being raised and trained by Talia and Ra's al Ghul. To complete that training, he spent a year doing seemingly impossible tasks in the service of the Demon's Head--the Year of Blood. Together with Goliath, his pet dragon-bat, and a young assassin called Nobody, Robin sets out on a high-octane, globetrotting adventure to atone for his sins and make right from wrong--the Year...

"Her name is Dr. Harleen Quinzel--better known to her friends and enemies as Harley Quinn. Her very-very-ex-boyfriend the Joker may be the Clown Prince of Crime, but Harley's the Queen of Coney Island! So when the zombie apocalypse threatens her li'l seaside stretch of paradise, who else would ya call to give the undead a blow to the head? In these platitudinous pages, the baddest bad girl in the entire DC Universe joins forces with everyone from...

"Amazing creators unite for a brand new era of Spidey! Ben Reilly -- the clone of Spider-Man -- is back! He's been through hell, but now with the support of a major corporation, Ben is thwipping once again and being the best Spider-Man he can be. And what does Peter think? Well, he's just been through the Sinister War and he's exhausted! But even if Peter is against Ben's return to the limelight, does he have a choice? The webs that are about to be...

"Raised by her father to be the ultimate human weapon, Cassandra Cain is a fighter like no other. At only 17, the teenaged assassin takes down enemies three times her size without batting an eye. Her incredible skills come at a cost, however: unable to speak or write, Cassandra instead reads body language as naturally as breathing, an ability that makes her even deadlier. But after Batman witnesses her save the life of Commissioner Gordon during the...

Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe's, an alien virus has mutated all of the world's greatest super heroes into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it - but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?! Follow their search for more food, and witness the arrival of the Silver Surfer! Collects Marvel Zombies #1-5.