Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC

by Reed Tucker

For millennials and others of a certain age who have lived nearly their entire lives when superheroes have existed inside the mainstream, for whom visiting a funny bookstore means turning up to a clean, well-lit pseudo-macchiato bar run by hipsters, it’s difficult to convey how underground and marginalized comic books used to be.

I did buy it, and that book was Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, aka the single-coolest thing Western civilization has ever produced.

“DC compulsively reboots more times than Windows 7,” artist Jules Rivera wrote on Twitter.