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A History Of Time Travel In The DC Universe

As Convergence gets ready to turn the world of DC Comics upside down and The Flash begins experimenting with travelling back and forth in time on TV, it feels like a big time for DC's take on time travel. But really, time travel has been a crucial part of the way DC has structured its comics for decades.

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Essentially, so your brain doesn't leak out of your ears trying to grasp all the vagaries of various time travel arcs across the history of DC, it's easier to understand the way DC creators have used time travel over the years not as simply sliding back and forth across a single timeline. That kind of time travel is relatively simple in the DC Universe. Advanced time travel ,however, is essentially the crux at which the various states of the DC Multiverse over the years hangs itself: alternate worlds are born of alternate timelines, and travel between the various numbered Earths over the years. It's less about reality hopping and more about bending the fabric of time to transpose yourself into another timeline. To understand time travel as a concept in DC's history is essentially to understand how the Multiverse has expanded and contracted over the years.

Simply put, from a metatextual level, time travel is an excuse often an excuse for alternate stories featuring familiar DC heroes, and over the years, the chance to reboot continuity. The DC Multiverse, and thus the role of time travel in DC comics, has waxed and waned over the years of the companies' existence — the more prominent the existence of alternate worlds, the more likely time travel stories are going on. Here's a brief recap of how time travelling shenanigans have torn down and reshaped the DC Comics universe over the years.

The Time Travel Wilderness

In the earliest days of the comics, outside of crossover series like Justice League, DC's universe wasn't exactly cohesive and connected. You had the splits between the Golden Age and Silver Age versions of their stalwart characters already creating a continuity mess, but in reality writers and editors didn't really care - each standalone series essentially sat in its own bubble, adventures only effecting each other as and when required, rather than huge ramifications playing out across multiple series as you might expect with a comic event today.

Amid these various continuities and canonical disputes, there emerged perhaps the DC Universe's premiere time traveller (at least, in terms of the mainstream heroes): Barry Allen, a.k.a The Flash. Barry's connection to the speed force, and his ability to race around at almost seemingly infinite speeds, played naturally into the character's move into time travel. In 1961, the character's iconic 'Cosmic Treadmill' was introduced, and Barry began to use his speed to combat enemies not just in the present, but in the far future of the 30th Century.

In the early days of the '50s and '60s, time travel was a simple concept for writers: A single stream, and effects on the past changed things in the future. But as the DC Comics world expanded and expanded, and the desire to knit things together grew, these once standalone series and spinoffs and what ifs all slowly started to merge and link into what would become the first take on the Multiverse. But instead of worlds co-existing, DC's Multiverse essentially relied on disparate timelines to connect itself all together — different events throughout history formed alternate worlds and existences on separate timelines, and Time travel would be used to hop between those worlds, rather than any other sort of explanation. Eventually, it became too much for DC to handle: There needed to be a way to wipe the slate clean again, and despite time travel essentially being what created the problem in the first place, time travel would be used to solve it.

Crisis On Infinite Timelines

Crisis on Infinite Earths had a monumental impact on the DC universe in the mid-80's. We've already discussed how the event was used to revert Superman's power level to a more believable level , but its main impetus was to act as hard reboot of the DC timeline.

The plans of the Anti-Monitor ultimately slashed the number of remaining 'Earths' in DC canon down to five, before ultimately, through the heroes and villains uniting to stop the Anti-Monitor by travelling across the stretches of time to stop his plans from even happening — and Barry Allen perishing to stop Anti-Monitor from destroying the remaining Earths — saving the day at the cost of merging the remaining five Earths into a singular amalgam: a new earth, and a new reboot for the DC timeline.

Post-Crisis also put a soft limit on time travel for DC's writers - with the new universe largely free of alternate timelines with the reboot, DC were hesitant to let it things get out of hand again. There was an unspoken rule put in place to try and limit the amount of what-ifs and alternate realities that lead to Crisis in the first place: A character could only time travel a handful of times, before the stress of attempting to jump through time would destroy their bodies.

A Big Ball Of Wibbly-Wobbly, Hypertimey-Wimey Stuff

But as time passed after Crisis, and the DC Universe began to re-expand itself, writers began to find away to expand into the multiverse once more. The main example of this semi-aborted attempt to recreate the multiverse came in 1999, when writers Grant Morrison and Mark Waid coined the concept of 'Hypertime'.

Morrison and Waid subscribed to the belief that, as far as DC Canon was concerned, everything was true and everything mattered (not to dissimilar to Disney's current approach to the new Star Wars universe). Alternate realities and different interpretations of DC's characters could exist alongside the 'canon' heroes of Earth-1, designated the 'main' timeline, as different splintered branches from the source, which was collectively known as 'Hypertime', introduced in the comic book arc The Kingdom .

But outside of the fiction, Hypertime was essentially a handwavey way to approach telling alternate stories - only a few heroes of the central Timeline would ultimately be aware of Hypertime and its branching existence at the end of the events of The Kingdom - and the way Morrison and Waid intended for the concept to weave a single timeline and its branches in and out of each other was met with stark disapprovement from other DC writers. As the pair stepped away from DC for extended periods to work with other companies, Hypertime was essentially sidelined and ignored by DC, until they flat out disavowed its existence in 2005.

The Rise And Fall Of New Timelines

In short time though, time travel and the multiverse concept would come to a head again, Hypertime be damned. Infinite Crisis , a 2006 semi-sequel to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths , saw the alternate Alexander Luthor - who had survived the events of the first Crisis - reattempt to create the original Multiverse timeline, and acted in a similar capacity as a reboot of the DC Timeline, but on a far less extensive scale. During the story, Luthor originally succeeds in re-expanding the single Post-Crisis Earth into several alternate realities once more, before being undone and re-slammed together as 'New Earth'. This impacted on the main timestream of the DC canon in various ways, but nothing as earth-shattering as the first Crisis - certain characters like Jason Todd were brought back to life (despite their deaths being remembered), and disparate origins for heroes were all merged into one existence.

The soft reboot would only last for 6 years though. Unbeknownst to the heroes of New Earth, Luthor's attempt to recreate the different timelines actually worked. Little by little, branches off the timeline started to bleed out, forming a new Multiverse of 52 Earths: each very similar to New Earth, but then ripples in Time diverging them into the alternate timelines they would come to be known as.

The Barred Gates Of The New 52

But once again, this all changed - and once again, it was down to the efforts of the Time Travelling Barry Allen. 2011's Flashpoint , set in an alternate timeline created by the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, saw Barry trapped in a reality he couldn't remember - a quasi-apocalyptic existence where war between the Atlanteans and the Amazonians was tearing the planet apart. Thawne eventually revealed this timeline was brought about by Barry himself, in an attempt to travel back in time and save his mother Nora from the Reverse-Flash (a story we're currently seeing play out on The Flash TV show, essentially). Barry once again has to use his speed to revert the timeline, but in the process, actually recreated the DC universe once more. Three disparate timelines, the DC Universe, the Vertigo Universe, and the Wildstorm Universe - a.k.a, the three imprints DC Comics were currently running - were merged into a single Universe: The New 52.

This new reality, at first met with great hostility by DC fans, created a new slate of 52 Earths, but unlike before, contact between them and the main, Prime Earth that much of DC's comics currently take place in was restricted - Time Travel between the earth's is currently much more strongly inhibited, with communication and travel between the worlds restricted (and, in a slightly bizarre metatextual manner, can only be conducted through comic books in each Earth retelling the adventures of other Earth timelines).

This though, will soon change, with DC's new Convergence Event setting the stage, 30 years after Crisis, to throw the current timeline asunder. Supervillain Braniac, outside of Space and Time, plans to pluck various worlds and timelines from throughout DC's entire history, including pre-crisis events, and throws them all together for fun.

Time Travel. It can never be simple, can it?

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Superheroes have all sorts of powers, from flight to being bulletproof, but there's one superpower many would argue to be the very best of them all: the ability to travel through time. Throughout the years, there have been a ton of superheroes who have this ability. Some acquired it naturally, while others learned how to manipulate the space-time continuum through the use of some insane technology.

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A mysterious entity who leads Swamp Thing to enhance his powers. The Traveller has all the attributes of Odin: he has only one eye, possesses vast occult knowledge, is often accompanied by two ravens and wanders the Earth incognito. Whether he is actually Odin or not is unkown.

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25 Time Travelers NOT From Gallifrey

We take a chronological look at pop culture's greatest time travelers who AREN'T Time Lords.

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Doctor Who  is on everyone’s minds these days, and the good Doctor (all 11…or 12…or 13 of him, depending on how you’re keeping track) is clearly the greatest time traveler in popular fiction, but there are other characters who break the time barrier. Chronal explorers that pierce the barrier of physics to find reality’s hidden truths. Comics, literature, television, film, and everything in between have always been preoccupied by the concept of time travel, so we present to you a list of those that dare to experience the past and endure the future. We all know the greatest time traveler is the Doctor so we excluded him here in order to focus on some other great chrononauts. Here are popular culture’s greatest time travelers not from Gallifrey!

While not the first time travel story, Twain’s satire of the romantic notions of old world chivalry was pre-dated by “The Chronic Argonauts” (1888) by H.G, Wells, Edward Bellamy’s  Looking Backward  (1888), and  “Fortunate Island” (1882) by Charles Heber Clark. Twain presented an idealized notion of the past with Morgan’s modern notions of technology screwing things up for the residents of Camelot. Morgan’s time traveling antics were mostly used for comedic purposes, but like all things Twain, this chronal plot device also served to cast a reflection on modern society. Morgan was the readers’ guide through a past which is viewed as an ideal time period, but really it is as fraught with power struggles, greed, and disease as the modern day.

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It is right and proper to consider H.G. Wells the father of time travel. He was the first author to use the name “time machine” for a device that can take its passengers through the timestream. Every story that utilized the device after owes something to Wells. Wells’ first explorer in time was simply known as the Time Traveler and there is a little of him in every traveler that came after. It’s interesting that Wells never named his Time Traveler, but this gives the adventurer a feeling of the everyman, of any human who suddenly was tossed back in time to fight Morlocks or witness the final end of the solar system. When the Traveler witnesses the end of the Earth, it’s a shocking and visceral moment that changed science fiction storytelling forever.

Perhaps the first time traveling supervillain in comics, Per Degaton first fought the Justice Society of America in 1947. Think of Degaton as a time traveling Nazi, a man who bounces between eras, collecting weaponry to conquer any age. Degaton was a member of the first super-villain team, The Injustice Society of the World and taught neophyte comic fandom just how dangerous a mad man with the ability to travel through time can be. Degaton has been the focus of many stories throughout the years, from an amazing Justice League/JSA  All-Star Squadron  crossover in the 80s, to recent era wars with Geoff Johns’ JSA, to an appearance on  Batman: The Brave and the Bold , Degaton has been a constant in the DC Universe. It’s only a matter of time before comics first evil time master pops up in the New 52.

When the Legion arrived in Smallville to meet their hero Superboy, it showed fans that the world they had been reading in DC Comics has a future, and that future would be awesome. When Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad first appeared, it probably looked like just another gimmick story, but the Legion’s future showed that the heroes of the present created a legacy of heroism that will last 1000 years into the future. Time travel is naturally a major part of Legion history but it was one journey to meet the greatest hero of the future, Clark Kent, that changed the DC Universe forever.

Comics’ most enduring time traveler, Rip Hunter has been a part of the tapestry of the DC Universe since the very beginning of the Silver Age. With his pal Jeff Smith (not the dude that created Bone), his girlfriend Bonnie Baxter, and Bonnie’s kid brother, Corky, Rip uses his Time-Sphere to adventure through time and help those in need from any era. Rip’s more modern incarnation was a member of a group of time cops called the Linear Men and a mentor and ally to Booster Gold. While briefly appearing in the New 52 to desperately stop a budding romance between Superman and Wonder Woman, Rip has yet to make an impact on DC’s current continuity. But Rip has been around longer than many DC heroes, and as such an enduring character, he deserves special mention as comics’ greatest time warrior.

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Think of Kang as an evil version of the Doctor who uses all his knowledge and weapons to try and conquer every moment in the timestream. Kang is arguably the Avengers’ greatest foe: an evil that knows no limitations, a despot that can be everywhere and anytime, who has fought every battle an infinite amount of times in order to figure out how to win it. Kang is so evil he is actually three major Marvel villains, all existing at different points in his life. Kang is also Immortus and Rama Tut, two additional characters that have had major repercussions on the Marvel Universe. Kang may not have a charming British accent, but he is every bit as capable as the Doctor, and, much to the Avengers’ chagrin, Kang’s only desire is to bend time and history to his will.

As all fans know, Kirk’s great motivation was to boldly go where no one has gone before. Usually that meant into the uncharted reaches of space, but sometimes he became a traveler through time as well. Kirk’s most famous voyage through time came as the Enterprise was knocked three days into the past while observing the death throes of Psi 2000. Kirk ended up on 1930 Earth and fell in love with the beautiful Edith Keeler. Tragically, Keeler was fated to die, and Kirk had to stand by and allow it to happen. Kirk ended up on modern day Earth twice more (“Tomorrow is Yesterday” and  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ) but his last time jaunt was his final adventure, as he was propelled into the future to meet Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the future Enterprise. Final in that timeline anyway, because JJ Abrams and stuff happened.

George Taylor did not even realize he was a time traveler at first. He thought he was just an astronaut knocked off course to a planet where super evolved apes ruled. Turns out, Taylor and his crew were propelled into the far future of an Earth where humanity had been eradicated. The screenplay, co-written by master sleight-of-hand writer Rod Serling, served up a heaping helping of irony when the protagonist realized his chronal plight. Audiences are still picking their jaws up off the floor almost fifty years later from the shock of the realization that  Planet of the Apes  was a time travel story after all. Apes gave the concept of time travel an element of horror and wowed audience with daring story manipulation and end of the world themes. So much so, that the franchise remains vital in the modern era.

As all readers of Vonnegut’s classic know,  Slaughterhouse-Five  is a treatise of the nature of linear human existence disguised as a sci-fi novel. Whether a real time traveler or a man who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, Billy Pilgrim is unlike some of the other explorers on this list, only traveling to his own past. Billy is a stoic observer, a man who prefers sinking to swimming, so as the time stream shows him his past, Billy is swept up in the events rather than being an active participant. In many ways, Billy is the opposite of the villains, heroes, and explores on this list as he observes time passively rather than attempting to be an active part of it.

Technically Rick, Will, and Holly actually traveled to an alternate dimension, but  Land of the Lost   just gives us such warm feelings of nostalgia that we are going to justify their inclusion on this list. A Saturday morning staple for years,  Land of the Lost  followed the Marshall family as they struggled to survive in a prehistoric world of dinosaurs, constant threats, and latex suited aliens. The lizard-like Sleestaks, despite their hokey appearance, had something unsettling about them. Maybe it was the sugar high we got from the three bowls of Trix that would usually accompany the show, but something about those aliens sent pre-teens running from their Motorolas throughout the ’70s and ’80s.  Land of the Lost  was pretty much the only place little dinophiles could see their beloved thunder lizards on TV and the whole thing paved the way for  Jurassic Park . In case you think it’s all silly nostalgia, such literary luminaries as Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, and Norman Spinrad wrote for the show.

Perhaps the bleakest time travel story on the list,  Kindred   is a novel about Edana (Dana) Franklin, a woman who on six separate occasions time travels from 1976, Altadena, California to the antebellum South where she is forced to endure life as a slave. The son of a slave owner, Rufus Weylin, calls Dana back whenever his life is in danger. Dana saves Weylin’s life each time she is pulled back, but she still is treated as property, abused and marginalized, by the boy, and then man, she has spent her life saving. The novel is a harsh and honest look of the dehumanization of slavery as seen through the eyes of a thoroughly modern woman of color. The novel is a gut punch, as Edana Franklin remains perhaps the most tragic chronal traveler in the history of science fiction.

The youngest member of our league of the intrepid tick-tockers, Kevin was the companion of six brave dwarves who experienced the Mycenaean Wars, fought a Minotaur side by side with King Agamemnon, met Robin Hood and Napoleon, took a cruise on the Titanic, and sprung from the feverishly fertile imagination of Terry Gilliam during the filmmaker’s most creative period. Anchored to the present, Kevin was a lonely boy, ignored and misunderstood, free to experience the timestream. Kevin was a brave and capable adventurer, worthy of mention in the annals of  time jumpers.  

Kyle Reese was the great plot twist of the Terminator franchise, a man who travels back in time to save the mother of the savior of the human race, and ends up conceiving him. John Connor sends Reese back to save his mother Sarah from a killer cyborg that for some reason was made to look like a young, really buff version of the former Governor of California (I wish I could go back in time to stop myself from making that joke). Anyway, the great tragic twist of the film is that Connor  knew  that Reese would be killed in the past but he had to send him back anyway to ensure his own existence. This was one of the greatest chronal loop plot twists in film history. Reese was a great soldier that used time as a weapon to help win a war and insure a future for humanity.

Marty was the protagonist of, perhaps, the most popular American time travel story ever. On three different occasions, Marty hopped into his Delorean and rode the clockwork. First to the past where he made sure his hot mom met his oddball father so Marty could be conceived. The second time, Marty took Doc Brown’s time machine to the future to make sure his own son wouldn’t be killed drag racing, and the third time, Marty traveled to the Old West to make sure Universal Pictures had another pay day. All of Marty’s adventures are tightly-plotted time travel stories compete with paradoxes and contradictions. The time travel rules of  Back to the Future  seem to be pretty much the ones popular culture has embraced. Filled with a humanity, Marty is time traveling everyman who helps audiences experience the waves of the timestream without getting overwhelmed by all the wibbely-wobbily science stuff. By the way,  Back to the Future 2   took place in 2015. We have a tiny bit over a year and we at Den of Geek think we speak for everyone when we ask, WHERE ARE OUR COCKLEDOODY HOVERBOARDS!!!

DC’s premiere time traveler, Booster Gold is one of the unlikeliest heroes of all. In the future, he was a petty crook who stole a super suit and used it to become a hero in the past. In the present, he was a man who had to make up for his misdeeds by becoming a member in good standing of the Justice League. Booster Gold is a unique time traveler in that he wants to profit off his knowledge of the future because he is such a nothing in his own time. Despite his humble beginnings, Booster, in spite of himself, became a great hero. Booster’s recent antics caused Western badass Jonah Hex to became trapped in modern times, showing that despite rising to the status of a hero, some part of Booster is still a time traveling screw up.

Many time travelers dared to defy physics but only Bill and Ted dared to do it so awesomely. Using their time traveling phone booth, Bill and Ted, travel in time to meet historical figures from the past in order to pass their history report. Evidently, in San Dimas, California, students give term papers in front of a packed auditorium rather than, you know, writing them, so Bill and Ted use all their style and rock n’ roll acumen to bring Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Socrates, and Billy the Kid to their school. I guess just having people in costumes on-stage is enough to get a passing grade, as Ted is not sent to military school, the two pals get to keep their band (Wyld Stallyns) together, and go on to make music that will bring peace and harmony to the world…music that sounds an awful lot like late ‘80s Kiss. While farcical, these films are a blast making Bill and Ted the most excellent time travelers on this list, and they got to travel around with future George Carlin. Traveling with future George Carlin is beyond awesome.

The late ‘80s and early ‘90s were not a fountainhead of genre entertainment on television, so what the sci-fi fans did get, they embraced like a rare gem. Of that era’s paltry pickings,  Quantum Leap  stood out as a treat well ahead of its time. Each week, fans were treated to Dr. Samuel Beckett leaping into other peoples’ bodies to fix an event that once went wrong. Beckett was like a chronal fix-it man, a heroic scientist who sacrificed his own existence to journey through the time stream and help strangers throughout history. Some of the lives Sam led were hilarious, from a beauty queen to a pro-wrestler, and others were challenging and tragic, like an inmate on death row, a rape victim, and a boy with Down’s syndrome. Fans never knew what they were going to get from Sam (and neither did Sam), but rest assured, whatever life he led on any given week would be compelling and wholly entertaining.

Time travel has always been a major part of X-Men history. From the moment fans caught a glimpse at the brutal future in  Days of Future Past , time jumps and glimpses into horrific futures have been a story device X writers have returned to again and again. With Cable, fans got a new type of time traveler, a mysterious figure from the far future, one that created a paradox with  Days of Future Past , and one whose identity as the son of Cyclops would not be revealed for quite a while. While complex almost to the point of parody, the core idea of Cable, a mutant warrior who can jump around in time, remains pure. It takes a good writer to cut the dross off Cable, but when it happens, fans are usually treated to a kickass time travel adventure.

As a time traveling wild card, Bishop threw quite a wrinkle in the X-Men universe after he debuted in 1991. Through Bishop, readers and the X-Men got a glimpse of a very different future than they first experienced in  Days of Future Past . Bishop was a futuristic mutant cop that followed the evil Trevor Fitzroy into the modern era. Bishop carried knowledge and history that tantalized fans, as he knew that one of the X-Men would betray and destroy the team, but he never knew  which  one. The plotline remained unresolved for a long time, leading Bishop to become a major player in the X-Verse. Bishop is still jaunting through time after spending a good portion of the new millennium as a villain. 

Ash Williams was many things: a warrior, a victim, a hapless clown, a maniac with a chainsaw, and (of course) a time traveler. After being shunted into the year 1300, Ash finds himself in a mad quest to find the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis so he can return home. It doesn’t go well as Ash is drawn into a medieval feud between a Lord and A Duke, forced to fight a miniature versions of himself, face down a Deadite army, and fight his own evil clone. Many travelers on this list are learned men on subtle adventurers who witness the sublime secrets of the cosmos. Ash is a blunt instrument wielding a chainsaw. Ash doesn’t glide through time, he rips it to shreds.

In the third Harry Potter novel, over achieving third year, Hermione Granger got timey-wimey by getting her hands on the magical time-turner, a magical device that allowed her to take more than one class at a time. In addition to making real world children queasy at the thought, Hermione’s ingenuity allowed her and her stalwart friends to win the day in the book and save their griffin friend Buckbeak. Introducing an element of time travel to the world of Harry Potter allowed Rowling to get clever with her plot structure; actually showing her heroes lose and lose big. The tuner also revealed an important element to Hermione’s character, as it showed that she wouldn’t be confined to the constraints of reality when it came to her eagerness to expand her knowledge. 

Donnie Darko , like many time travel jaunts, is a non-linear narrative of a doomed boy trying to prevent his own random death. It is a somber, brutal, honest tale that revels in its own strangeness. While not overtly dealing with time travel, the story does deal with the ramifications of trying to change one’s own destiny.  Donnie Darko   is a fascinating and often brutal look at the personal nature of physics and reality, and Donnie traveling in time wearing a horrific rabbit suit which, while not as cool as a Delorean, has a certain post-modern edge to it.

One thing  Lost   fans can be assured of; if it was a Desmond episode, there would be tears. The creators of  Lost   weren’t afraid of tragedy or romance, and in Desmond, they found both. Desmond was a chronal Romeo on a star-crossed quest through time to find his Juliet, Penny (the show already had a Juliet who had her own doomed and tragic romance with Sawyer, oh  Lost ) Though Desmond, the showrunners introduced the concept of time travel to the show’s already complex narrative. Hume probably had the most complex and fantastic backstory of anyone on the show, what with the being disconnected from time and all, but his love and devotion to his dear Penny made him one of the most beloved characters.

Jacob Epping was a simple English teacher who only wanted to avert America’s darkest day. Epping traveled back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The portal that Epping finds can only take him to a certain time, so he must live his life in the past until 11/22/63, shadowing Lee Harvey Oswald and preparing for the day he can change history. Through Epping, Stephen King was able to realize the full potential of a time travel story and to show readers a view of the past through modern sensibilities. Epping is a unique time traveler in that he was not in the past to explore but to right a grave wrong, something time did not want him to do. Through Epping, King was able to explore America through the lens of America before Oswald’s act and America after that fateful day in Dallas. Epping was a parable for America itself, a man who was lost and desperately wishing to find a way back to a time of innocence, where a selfish man’s bullet was not able to bring down a god.

Continuum , the other great time travel drama on television, focuses on future police officer Kiera Cameron who must travel back in time to stop a gang of anarchists from destroying the events that create her future world. Cameron is from an almost dystopian future where mega-corporations rule every aspect of peoples’ lives. The terrorists she is in pursuit of can be viewed as the heroes from a certain point of view as they have a more humanist view of what the future should be. As for Kiera herself, she just wants to get back home to her family. As a reluctant time traveler, Kiera is the perfect point of view character through which viewers can see the modern world as well as experience the possible future that awaits. Kiera kicks ass in her futuristic crime fighting suit and is a master at future law enforcement tech. Continuum’s plot defies genre convention and expectations as Kiera must navigate a time where those that are villains in the future may be innocent altruists in the past.

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Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

When time itself is in danger, it takes a master to save it. Enter Rip Hunter. He’s part of the legion of Time Masters that patrol and protect the timestream from those who would warp or change history to their benefit, while also guarding the secrets of the Multiverse.

Little is known about the origins of Rip Hunter, a time traveler from the distant future who appears during major events and works behind the scenes to ensure the safety of the space-time continuum. Throughout time, this enigmatic hero has teamed up with numerous members of the DC Universe—including the Justice League—in order to fix and maintain critical points in history.

The creator of the Time Sphere, which allows its user to travel to and from any point in time, Hunter possesses a genius-level intellect and fighting skills from every era of history. However, Hunter's greatest asset remains his knowledge of historical events and their importance. He also keeps his real name and origin a mystery: the less known about him, the less likely another, more malevolent time traveler can go back in time and kill Hunter as a baby. As such, Hunter works just as hard to keep his true identity a secret as he does preserving time, our most precious resource.

Character Facts

time travel, genius-level intellect, combat skill

First Appearance:

SHOWCASE #20 (1959)

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Time Travel Superheroes: 15 Heroes Who Can Travel Through Time

How cool would it be to go back in time and meet your younger self? 

Yes, we know. It’s probably a bad idea. These Superheroes, however, don’t think so. Each of them has traveled through time and has saved the world many times using this ability.

Let’s take a look at these time travelers and their adventures!

#15 Rip Hunter

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  10+

Rip Hunter is a DC superhero that has come to the aid of many heroes if ever there were any time travel-related issues. He first appeared in the ‘Challengers of the unknown’ and later even got his series during the 1960s. 

Hunter is an ordinary man who uses an invention of his called the Time Sphere, and he travels through time seeking new adventures. Rip Hunter has been instrumental in many Crisis events in the comic books. We also see him playing essential roles in the events of the Arrow-verse. 

In the comics, he is the one who develops the tech that our heroes use to go back in time and fight the Anti-Monitor. This is during the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. The changes that occur because of this event completely alter the DC fictional universe, making way for new and old stories to be told differently.

#14 Spider-Man 2099

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  5+

Miguel O’Hara, or Spider-Man of 2099, comes from one of the dark timelines of the Marvel Universe. He is a brilliant young geneticist who works with the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters, which is implied to be the old X-men Headquarters. Here, the young scientists conducted experiments and studies about the original Spider-Man. During one of these experiments, an accident gives O’Hara spider powers. 

Miguel’s powers are superior to the original Spider-Man’s, and the two have shared pages on many occasions.

Spider-Man 2099 is a regular time traveler as well. Upon realizing that Tyler Stone was his actual father and that an issue in the past might get his father erased, Miguel decides to go back in time to stop the temporal shift from happening. He does so through a time machine that his biological father destroys, which traps him in the past. He travels into the future along with the Spider-man army to fight the Inheritors.

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#13 Franklin Richards

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   4+

Franklin Richards is the son of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Believed to be a mutant, he has vast reality-warping powers and is said to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe. 

The Child of Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic has been riddled by many journeys in time, and most were not at his discretion. There are instances of him being kidnapped into the future and sometimes even being wiped out of existence. 

Time travel is usually mind-bending by itself, but imagine someone who could do it with the snap of his finger. Franklin is said to easily create galaxies in his hand and travel dimensions. In the comics, a young Franklin is trained by a mysterious figure in his play area. The figure is eventually revealed to be an adult, Franklin Richards. Like we said, Mind-bending. 

#12 Wolverine

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  4+

The Wolverine needs no introduction. Weapon X is one of the critical members of the X-men and has been instrumental in saving the day several times. His healing factor makes him a nightmare to go up against, and he can even stand toe-to-toe with the Hulk.

One more should be added among his many persona and titles – Time Traveler. Wolverine has journeyed through time on many occasions, and we also see that in the movie version. It involves Kitty Pryde sending Wolverine’s consciousness back in time to save mutants from annihilation.

In the new series – X Deaths, two Wolverines are sent back in time from two different future timelines. In both timelines, Wolverine is the last mutant alive and must go back in time to change the future.

Time Travel is messy, guys. Please don’t try this at home.

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#11 Kitty Pryde

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   1+

Kitty Pryde is a core member of the X-Men. Her powers allow her to phase through objects, which means she can move through anything. She has used her powers on many occasions and has helped her team save the day. She even uses her abilities to phase out of sync with the earth’s rotation. She can travel at infinite speeds, or at least faster than light. 

In fictional theory, she could use this ability to phase in and out of time. However, Kitty Pryde travels time without achieving this feat as well. Unlike the movie adaptation of the ‘Days of future past’ storyline, Kitty’s consciousness goes back in time to save mutant kind from extinction. Rachel Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Marvel Girl, can send her back in time. 

She eventually manages to save mutant kind and change their dark future.

#10 Super Boy

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  5+

Superboy has had many incarnations over the years, with some iterations just being the younger version of the original Superman. As Superboy, Kal El meets the Legion of Superheroes, formed after taking inspiration from the former’s stories. 

The Legion travels back to the 31st century to recruit Superboy to their team and fights threats in the future. The Legion already has time travel tech in the future, and it is using this that Superboy can travel to the future. 

Another character incarnation is Con El, who has the DNA of both Lex Luthor and Superman. This Superboy has died many times but has been revived multiple times as a clone. He is even resurrected in the 31st century by Brainiac. This same Con El travels back in time to live with Jonathan and Martha Kent. 

There are so many origins and stories for this character that it can get confusing at a point.

#9 Dr. Manhattan

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:   Infinite

Dr. Manhattan turned into an energy being after he was exposed to a lab accident. The abilities he acquired manifested over time and slowly grew in power. Eventually, he turned into a being that could be everywhere at once and had the powers of a god. He could change reality to his wishes and create universes out of nothing.

With his omniscience came a significant shift in perspective. He no longer saw time in the same way as others. It was one large picture rather than a string of events, and he could place himself anywhere in that picture with just a thought. This has enabled the Doctor to travel to any moment he wished. 

Since he is a timeless being, he doesn’t precisely need to travel anywhere. He can change realities and change futures instantly. He even destroys the DC universe and restarts it.

What is time to a God?

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#8 Dr. Strange

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  3+

Stephen Strange is no Stranger to time travel. The Sorcerer Supreme is a master of the Mystic Arts and is a core member of the Avengers. He takes the lead on any threat of supernatural origin and is a more powerful practitioner of all things magic. 

We see Dr. Strange using these magical objects to manipulate time on many occasions. The most famous would be the Eye of Agomotto or the Time Stone to see different futures. However, that is not the case in the comics. Dr. Strange discovers that the Book of Cagliostro can be used to travel time and that this method does not align with the scientific techniques in the other versions of time travel fiction. 

Even without tools, Dr. Strange has been shown to simply travel time with her mystic arts.

#7 Superman

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter: 4+

There is seemingly very little that Superman can’t do. He is faster than light, can create a rift in reality just by punching it, and bench press the earth for five days straight. That is some next-level power. With the speeds he can achieve, it has been asked whether the Man of Steel can also travel time.

Superman has traveled time on many occasions. The how’s of this are rather sketchy and used to depend on the writer. The Superboy iteration could simply go back and forth in time with relative ease and could even carry people with him.

Even in one of the earlier Superman movies featuring George Reeves, we see the character go back in time but simply slow and reverse the earth’s rotation. He also uses his speed in the comic ‘Return to Krypton’ to go and visit Krypton before its destruction and meet his parent.

There truly is nothing that this man can’t do, huh?

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#6 Green Lantern

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:   5+

The Lantern’s ring is only limited by its wielder’s imagination. From energy constructs to energy projection, the possibilities seem endless. Within its vast capabilities lies the power to manipulate and travel through time.

Hal Jordan has used the Ring to travel to the 70th century, and another GL Arisia Rrab uses the Ring’s power to send time through her and age quickly. We have to admit that the latter is rather strange.

Hal used his power in the comics to open a portal to the past so that he could send a few pterodactyls through it. 

News Flash – comics books can be bizarre. 

#5 Iron Lad

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   5+

Nathaniel Richards is a 30th-century genius and the younger version of Kang the Conqueror. Kang appeared to his younger self and saved him from a bully, thus giving him a glimpse of his future self and his armor similar to that of Iron Man. Upon seeing what he would turn into, Nathaniel renounced his destiny and decided to use his intellect to never become the evil version of himself. 

The armor given to Nathaniel has neuro-kinetic capabilities and allows him to travel time, the same as Kang.

The most amazing time travel Adventure is when Iron Lad travels back in time to warn the Avengers of the oncoming dangers. Unable to get in touch with them, he helps the Young Avengers and even kills his older version in battle.

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   10+

Bishop is the great-grandson of the mutant Gateway, who could manipulate and travel through time. Although he does not possess the powers to do so himself. Bishop is a soldier from the future who can passively absorb energy and dispel it however he wants. He is often depicted holding an energy gun that would allow him to shoot his absorbed energy out as blasts.

Bishop uses time travel devices from the future similar to that of Cable to journey to different periods. He is usually seen traveling back in time from a dystopian future to help the X-men rewrite history.

Bishop was sent back in time to stop Legion from killing Magneto, but his failure to do so is what brought about the Age of Apokolips.

The fastest man on the planet has been known to play around a little too much with time. With the ability to run at a million times the speed of light, The Flash can alter the vibrations in his body to travel through time. He can do the same to travel through dimensions as well. 

Not all versions of the Flash can achieve this feat, but Barry Allen and Wally West seem to do so easily. The most famous time-related adventure by a Flash is the Flashpoint paradox.

Due to his selfish needs, the Flash goes back in time and saves his mother, creating a massive rift and modifying the future to a world on the brink of war and destruction. Once in this new reality, Barry Allen realizes his mistake and works toward correcting his actions. He uses his time traveling abilities to go back in time and correct his errors.

This storyline is the most critical example of why the time stream is not to be tampered with.

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#2 Booster Gold

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  20+

Booster Gold is from the 25th century Gotham, and unlike other future genii who come back in time, he just does so for fame. An underachiever in the future, Booster works as a janitor at the Museum of Superheroes. This is where he discovers much about the legendary heroes and their stories. He manages to steal a flight ring and Brainiac 5’s energy belt. He also takes Rip hunter’s time sphere, and it is with this that he travels back in time. 

All his tools are still high-tech in the 20th century, and he uses them to make people believe that he is a superhero and simply works to become famous. Though initially shown to be a greedy showboat, Booster slowly learns the way of a true hero. He uses his abilities to travel through time and help change histories that lead to dystopian futures.

Booster uses his tech to go back in time and save Blue Beetle from getting murdered just moments before his death.

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  20+

Cable is the most famous time-traveling character in the Marvel Universe. He is the son of Scott Summers and a clone of Jean Grey from the future. He has traveled back in time numerous times to help the X-men with a threat or to prevent a dystopian future from occurring. 

There are many versions of the character and various explanations for how he can travel time. The most common two are – he possesses inherent time travel abilities due to the techno-organic virus in his body, and the other is that he has a time travel device that looks like a watch which helps his travel time.

The best example of this feat is during the events of Ultimate X-men, where he comes back in time to warn and train Professor Xavier for their upcoming battle with Apokolips.

Honorable Mentions

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Reed Richards

This brings us to the end of our time traveler’s list. If anything, we have learned that messing with time is bad news. However, do you think we could create a timeline where superheroes were real if we mess it up enough?

Interesting. Very interesting.

What Is the Ability to Control Time Called?

Chronokinesis is the ability to alter or control time with your mind. With it, you can travel through time or even stop it.

Which Superhero Can Travel Through Time?

The Flash can travel through time. He can vibrate his body at such speeds that he can phase through time. He can use some power to travel dimensions as well.

Which Marvel Hero Can Time Travel?

Kitty Pryde can time travel. She is the mutant that goes back in tune during the events of Days of Future Past in the comics.

Can Any Marvel Character Time Travel?

Yes, Iron Lad can time travel. He is the younger version of Kang the Conqueror and travels back in time to warn the Avengers of his future self.

What DC Characters Can Time Travel?

Booster Gold can time travel. He does so by making using Rip Hunter’s Time sphere that he stole from the 25th century.

Can Green Lanterns Time Travel?

Yes, Green Lanterns can time travel. Anything is possible as long as there is enough willpower. Hal Jordan once made a jet construct that could travel fast enough to enter the speed force, which means that he can probably travel through time.

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10 Best Comics Where The Flash Travels Through Time

The Flash harnesses the Speed Force to not only run fast, but also travel through time, creating events like Flashpoint and the recent "Flash Age."

As many general audiences now know, thanks to the character's adventures on the CW TV series and trips through the multiverse in The Flash (2023) movie, the Flash travels through time a lot. Comic book fans are well-acquainted with Barry and Wally's trips through DC's timeline. Barry Allen debuted in DC's Silver Age, ushering in a new era of science fiction-based storytelling which of course featured all sorts of alternate realties and timelines.

Some of the greatest Flash comics involve time travel. Both Barry Allen and his comic readers quickly learned how fun and dangerous time travel could be. The Flash's journeys to the past and future have affected and altered the Justice League, Reverse Flash, and every character in the DC Universe.

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10 "The Man Who Broke The Time Barrier!"

Showcase #4 by john broome, carmin infantino & joe kubert.

Jay Garrick launched the Flash legacy as the original Scarlet Speedster of the Golden Age, debuting soon after Superman and Batman. Years later, in 1956, DC relaunched many heroes with new identities in what became the Silver Age. Barry Allen actually time-traveled in his very first appearance in Showcase #4 .

The Flash battles a villain from the future who accidentally arrived in Barry's present. After defeating him, Barry runs the criminal back to the future, "breaking the time barrier" in the process. This time travel event seemingly had no repercussions outside its own story, but DC later placed stronger penalties on those who traveled in time.

9 "The Conquerors Of Time!"

The flash #125 by john broome, carmin infantino & joe giella.

Wally West debuted as Kid Flash in The Flash #110, and only 10 issues after that, he traveled through time with his uncle, Barry Allen. The Flash #125 marks an extremely important milestone in the history of Flash's time-traveling adventures: the first appearance of the Cosmic Treadmill .

The Flash's time travel abilities evolved overtime, with many retcons and rewrites. Originally, the Flash could only precisely travel through time with the aid of the Cosmic Treadmill. In issue #125, Barry and Wally use the treadmill to travel to both the past and future to combat a time-traveling alien race known as the Dokris.

8 "Endless"

Justice league vol. 3 #20 by bryan hitch, daniel henriques, andrew currie, paul neary, alex sinclair, jeremy cox & pete pantazis.

Justice League #20-21 features aliens, time loops, time travel, and so much more. This two-part "Endless" story has been largely forgotten, partially due to its length and because Justice League volume 3 was not quite as beloved as the volumes that came before (New 52) and after (written by Scott Snyder). However, it's a beautifully illustrated story by Bryan Hitch that opens with Jessica Cruz's repeated death over and over again thanks to a time loop.

Part two involves aliens as Barry tracks down the man responsible for the time alterations. Contrary to many time travel Flash stories, Barry Allen is actually not responsible for the time manipulation; he's just the only one able to notice and stop it.

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7 "Chain Lightning"

The flash vol. 2 #145-150 by mark waid, brian augustyn, paul pelletier, vince russell & tom mccraw.

"Chain Lightning" is an underrated 1999 Flash comic event that unites all the Flashs at the time, from Max Mercury and Impulse to Jay Garrick and Wally West. "Chain Lightning" is a must-read story for Flash fans looking to get their time-travel fix.

To stop Cobalt Blue, a time-traveling speedster who hates Barry Allen, Wally West assembles the Flash Family and travels to all future time periods, recruits versions of the Flash and battles Blue, Reverse Flash and more. "Chain Lightning" is full of speedsters, time travel, Flash facts and much more.

6 "Menace Of The Reverse-Flash"

The flash #139 by john broome, carmin infantino & joe giella.

Readers first met the infamous Reverse Flash in The Flash #139. Little did they know, Reverse Flash would travel through time almost as much as the Flash, declaring revenge on the Flash for stealing his thunder in the 25th century. The Reverse Flash has meddled in Barry's life for years, and it all began with their fateful meeting in Eobard Thawne's future.

Reverse Flash was yet another "evil version" of DC's hero, an often overused trope. However, Thawne is a narrative antithesis to the Flash, using his Negative Speed Force to challenge and mock Barry's own ideals and powers. The Flash #139 is not only an interesting read, but a pivotal moment for Barry and "the man in yellow" who would become his greatest enemy.

5 The Flash Annual Vol. 4 #3

By van jensen, robert vendetti, brett booth, ron frenz, john livesay, norm rapmund & andrew dalhouse.

Evil versions of the Flash have appeared numerous times, but one of the most memorable versions of a corrupted Flash debuted during the New 52. This future, discouraged Barry Allen wore a dark blue suit accentuated by white/blue lightning. His design was a striking contrast to the classic Flash suit of the present-day Barry Allen.

The Flash Annual #3 showcased a dark story where the future "Blue Flash" traveled back in time, killing each of his Rogues on his way to kill the Flash of the present. Reverse Flash and Zoom may be Flash's most iconic speedster villains, but this future Barry was menacing, cold, and definitely deserves to return post-New 52 continuity.

4 The Flash: Rebirth

By geoff johns, ethan van sciver & alex sinclair.

Barry Allen was dead for more than 20 real-world years, only appearing in DC Comics during flashbacks or time-travel stories. Some fans feel that DC should have left Barry alone, as Wally had proven himself as the Flash for over two decades. However, Geoff Johns and co. resurrected Barry in Flash: Rebirth , a miniseries that recontextualized Flash's origin and strengthened his rivalry with Reverse Flash.

Flash: Rebirth may have returned Barry to life, but it also celebrated all the speedsters who filled his shoes like Max Mercury and Bart Allen. Flash: Rebirth is a beautiful homage to all members of the Speed Force and displays a hefty amount of time travel during the Flash Family's climatic battle with Thawne.

3 "The Flash Age"

The flash #750-755 by joshua williamson, rafa sandoval, stephen segovia, jordi tarragona, arif prianto & steve wands.

One thing readers never thought they'd see in The Flash comics: Barry Allen teaming up with Eobard Thawne. In Joshua Williamson's iconic modern Flash run, a new villain called Paradox forces an uneasy alliance with Flash and Reverse Flash as the trio travel through time in "The Flash Age" storyline.

Rafa Sandoval and Stephen Segovia's art is absolutely stunning, heightening the already intense narrative battles happening on the page. No one knows time travel better than Thawne, and Barry reluctantly teams up with the evi speedster, carefully watching his own back at every turn. "The Flash Age" is gripping eye candy filled with twists and turns.

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2 "Rogue War"

The flash vol. 2 #220-225 by geoff johns, howard porter, john livesay & james sinclair.

Mark Waid's Flash comic run is iconic, but some feel Geoff Johns one-upped him with his Flash run in the early-2000s. Johns introduced a new "Reverse Flash" named Zoom who wanted to make Wally experience great loss to create a better hero. His logic was flawed, but Zoom drew Reverse Flash's attention, wo appeared from the Negative Speed Force to help his yellow-clad ally.

Fortunately, Wally received a helping hand as well in the form of a past version of Barry Allen who arrived in the present thanks to the Cosmic Treadmill. In "Rogue War," Johns ended his terrific run with a tag-team brawl featuring Barry Allen, Wally West, Thawne, and Zoom.

1 Flashpoint

By geoff johns, andy kubert, sandra hope & alex sinclair.

Flashpoint may be the most famous example of Barry's time-meddling in DC Comics. What began as a contained five-issue miniseries for the Scarlet Speedster quickly expanded into a dozen three-issue miniseries revolving around Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and any other character affected by the timeline changes. Flashpoint ultimately evolved into the relaunch for DC's New 52 .

In an attempt to save his mother's life, Barry creates a new timeline where Thomas Wayne is Batman and Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war. Flashpoint was exciting, intense, led to a DC animated feature, and served as heavy inspiration for the new The Flash movie.

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"it's fabulous. a triumph": stephen king was an early champion of this criminally underrated horror series.

One underrated horror series is the perfect read for fans of Stephen King, not just because it shares elements of King's work - King said so himself.

• Stephen King, the Master of Horror, praises Wytches as " fabulous " and " a triumph ," making it a must-read for horror fans.
• Wytches , a terrifying limited series by Scott Snyder and Jock, tells a cohesive story with shocking twists and nightmarish visuals.
• Characters in Wytches are well-developed and face their own demons, reminiscent of Stephen King's storytelling, making it perfect for Stephen King fans everywhere.

Stephen King is perhaps the greatest horror writer of all time, having authored some of the most acclaimed novels of the genre, which means his words carry a great deal of weight when it comes to the praise King gives other horror stories. One particularly underrated story is no exception, as Stephen King said this horror series was “ fabulous ”, calling it “ a triumph ” - and that series is called Wytches .

Wytches is a 2014 Image Comics limited series by Scott Snyder and Jock. There are six issues of Wytches in total, as it tells one cohesive story from start to finish, with every horrific visual and shocking twist more terrifying than the last all the way until the final page of the series. However, it’s what’s on the front cover of the first issue of Wytches that’s perhaps the biggest tell-tale sign of how truly scary the series is, as the cover features a short yet telling testimonial from Stephen King :

“It’s Fabulous. A Triumph.” - Stephen King

If there’s one person’s word someone should take without question when it comes to horror, it’s that of Stephen King. Though upon reading Wytches oneself, it’s easy to see why the Master of Horror formed this opinion in the first place. Not only is Wytches absolutely terrifying, it’s also a well-crafted story with flawed yet redeemable characters and mind-blowing twists that readers will not see coming. Interestingly enough, Wytches actually feels like a story Stephen King himself would tell .

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What is wytches image comics’ critically acclaimed limited horror series, explained.

Wytches follows a teenage girl named Sailor Rook who moves to a small town with her mom and dad after witnessing a horrible tragedy she can’t explain. Before the move, Sailor was being terrorized by a bully who did a bit more than just tease Sailor. One day, while alone together in the woods, Sailor tried standing up for herself. However, the bully pulled out a pistol and threatened to kill Sailor unless she did a lewd act on camera. It was at that moment the bully was suddenly attacked by horrific creatures, who murdered her right in front of Sailor.

Sailor couldn’t explain what happened, and her parents and doctors convinced her she had imagined the whole thing. So, in an attempt to heal the family, Sailor’s mother and father move to a new town to start a new life. Unfortunately, the horrors had only just begun, and Sailor started encountering creatures just like the ones that killed her bully - and no one believed her.

When Sailor’s father, Charlie, finally does believe his daughter, he suddenly has to face his own demons to overcome the Wytches and save Sailor’s life. Those ‘demons’ included a constant fight with alcoholism, and the shame he carries with him every day after having abandoned his family many years earlier. Throughout Wytches , the Rook family is being haunted not just by the Wytches themselves (who are more like mutated mole people with access to black magic than humans), but also by the ghosts of their pasts - something that nearly becomes the entire family’s undoing (in an entirely unexpected way).

For a series that’s only six issues long, Wytches still finds a way to fully develop its characters, which makes their experiences all the more terrifying, as they feel like more than just ‘victims in a horror comic’, but real people going through something unimaginably horrific.

Why Stephen King Fans Will LOVE Wytches (Just Like He Did)

Elements of stephen king’s it , the body ( stand by me ), & the shining can be felt in wytches ..

This clip from The Shining was shared by the YouTube account, SoulCarrier77

Even from the above (spoiler free) breakdown of Wytches , one can see storytelling elements that Stephen King himself has used in the past. The bully terrorizing Sailor to an extreme degree is reminiscent of the bullies from both The Body and It , as they, too, weren’t afraid to cause great bodily harm (even potentially fatal) when harassing their victims.

The same is true for Charlie Rook’s alcoholism, as his demons were similar to those of Jack Torrance in The Shining . In Wytches , it’s revealed that Charlie’s addiction acted as something of a beacon for the Wytches (among other shocking things that were revealed in the final issue). Charlie’s darkness opened his family up to supernatural horrors, just like Jack Torrance.

Of course, a Stephen King novel is nothing without its monster, and the Wytches are right up there with anything King has brought to the page. These creatures are more than just magic-wielders, but entities more akin to literal demons, lurking underground through the hollowed trunks of dead trees, making deals with humans to feast on the flesh of children (at least, they prefer children).

If you enjoy feeling scared to your core of seemingly eldritch beasts that lurk in the deep, dark wood with unlimited access to dark magic used for the sole purpose of consuming children, then you’re likely a Stephen King fan, and Wytches is absolutely for you.

What Else are the Creators of WYTCHES Known For?

Some of scott snyder & jock’s most notable works, explained.

As Stephen King himself can attest to, Scott Snyder and Jock absolutely nailed it with Wytches - so, what else have these two done? Together, not much. But separately, writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock have extensive catalogs of comics under their belts with the same level of creative quality their fans (including Stephen King) enjoyed with Wytches .

Some of Scott Snyder’s most popular works include American Vampire (which, interestingly enough, Scott Snyder actually worked with Stephen King on), Swamp Thing , and Dark Nights: Metal . One will notice that all of those have a similar horror element running through them, and that’s not by accident. Snyder is a fantastic horror writer, and he proves as much in almost every comic he writes - including and especially Wytches .

Jock, on the other hand, is much more consistent when it comes to style as opposed to genre. The artist blew readers away with the visuals featured in Wytches , though that same aesthetic can be found in some of his other most popular works, including The Losers , Faker , and Green Arrow: Year One .

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While these other titles are fantastic reads, well worth any comic book fan’s time, there are few stories that can compare to Wytches in terms of high quality horror wrapped in phenomenal writing and astounding artwork. Indeed, Stephen King himself was an early champion of this criminally underrated horror series with his positive review featured prominently on the cover of the very first issue, and anyone who reads it will agree that Wytches is “ Fabulous. A Triumph ”.

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