Final 12 months might have appeared to fly by, however it was fairly packed when it got here to DC motion pictures, comics, TV and (for the primary time in a couple of years) video games! All of us have our personal private favorites, reflecting our distinctive tastes and pursuits, and all of them are price highlighting. So, like we’ve carried out previously, we’re saying goodbye to 2022 by letting members of the DC.com writing workforce share their prime three DC favorites for the 12 months.
At present’s trinity of terrificness involves us care of longtime contributor Rosie Knight!
Within the seemingly endless 12 months of 2022, there have been loads of sensible choices for comedian ebook lovers. DC had a banner 12 months with a number of huge occasions and buzzworthy miniseries, the return of the Darkish Knight to the large display screen, and among the greatest DCTV we have seen in ages. All of this is the reason after I was requested to select a “High Three” of the 12 months for DC.com, I could not merely confine it to the pages of my favourite humorous books. So, I made a decision to make it far tougher for myself than it wanted to be and selected my favourite DC comedian, DC movie and DCTV present of the 12 months. With out additional ado, listed here are—in my very humble opinion—three of the very best issues that we had been blessed with as followers of DC’s sprawling, fantastical and inclusive universe this 12 months.
Nubia: Queen of the Amazons
Stephanie Williams has blazed a path by DC since she started writing Nubia and in 2022 she took the hero to new heights as Nubia took the throne of Themyscira in Nubia: Queen of the Amazons.
Working alongside her Nubia and the Amazons collaborator and superhero stalwart Alitha Martinez, Williams crafted an epic fantasy miniseries that reimagined Themyscira for a brand new age and set Nubia on a journey of self-discovery as she ventured into Man’s World to make a case for peace. Nubia has lengthy been an ignored hero in DC’s pantheon and it has been great to see her being given her time to shine during the last couple of years underneath the watchful eye of Williams and Martinez. This collection, together with this 12 months’s Nubia: Coronation Particular, is likely one of the most attention-grabbing and bold new entries into DC canon that can seemingly form the character and universe for years to come back. So mainly, there’s by no means been a greater time to meet up with Nubia.
The Batman
It is exhausting to overestimate simply how a lot impression the Batman motion pictures have had on me since childhood. My earliest reminiscence is watching Batman ’89 at Christmas after I might barely speak. Batman Returns formed me into the comic-loving teen goth I used to be for a few years, and later Batman and Robin would develop into one of the crucial watched VHS tapes in my residence. So, at any time when a brand new Batman movie comes out, it is an enormous second for me. Watching The Batman was the primary time in many years that I felt that pleasure come alive as soon as once more. Casting Pattinson was a stroke of genius and Reeves’ imaginative and prescient of an angsty 12 months Two Batman felt each acquainted and contemporary. There’s an innate understanding of the absurdity and horror that is essential to make the Darkish Knight work whereas nonetheless making a textured Gotham that you simply truly wish to spend time in.
The neo-noir hued horror of The Batman felt like the very best of Batman’s comedian ebook adventures, however by no means shied away from the camp previous of the character. Direct references to Batman ’66, the large affect taken from Batman: The Animated Collection, and the surreal house that Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano and Zoe Kravitz reside in make this a darkish story that is by no means afraid to play within the gentle. That is earlier than we even get to the gothic great thing about Alfred and Bruce’s residence, and the stellar efficiency by Serkis as Batman’s live-in father determine and puzzle solver. It is a actually particular movie that sums up the very best of what can occur when DC offers artistic freedom to administrators. The truth that The Batman and Aquaman (one other of my favourite DC motion pictures) got here from the identical studio is proof of the eclectic energy of DC, its universe and its characters.
Harley Quinn Season Three
Because it debuted in 2019, Harley Quinn has cemented itself as actually distinctive within the DC animated canon. Not solely is the collection an R-rated romp that leans into the grownup facet of our favourite universe, however its meta-humor, quip-filled writing and fearlessness to be completely ridiculous additionally make it one of many best.
Season three took every thing to the following degree because it lastly delivered on Harlivy, the ship to finish all DC ships. Followers had been delighted because the lovers made it official and handled all of the ups and downs of a dedicated relationship. However whereas lastly coming by on that highly-anticipated romance might have made Harley Quinn play it protected, as an alternative it did the alternative, taking wild swings and introducing among the funniest and most affecting subplots but. James Gunn performed himself, embarking on making a Thomas Wayne biopic. We obtained inside Batman’s head actually, and an sudden menace to Gotham made its look because the season got here to finish, proving that similar to its titular anti-heroine, Harley Quinn is not afraid of shaking up the established order.
Do not miss our earlier lists from writers Alex Jaffe, Kelly Knox and Donovan Morgan Grant, and be sure you drop by DC.com tomorrow for one more “High Three of 2022” record!
Rosie Knight is an award-winning journalist and writer who loves Swamp Factor, the DC Cosmic, and writing about these and extra right here at DC.Com. You possibly can hearken to her waxing lyrical about comics, motion pictures, and extra every week as she co-hosts Crooked Media’s pop-culture podcast X-Ray Imaginative and prescient.
NOTE: The views and opinions expressed on this characteristic are solely these of Rosie Knight and don’t essentially mirror these of DC Leisure or Warner Bros.
