A long time ago, when comic books were fun and meant to be grown out of, before they went dark and woke yet infantile, they served a vital purpose. They introduced kids to science-fiction concepts ...

There is an old adage that politics makes strange bedfellows. The same is true in superhero comics, where heroes and villains routinely unite against common enemies. However, the unlikely alliance ...

Fans of the old Superman comics no doubt remember Bizarro World, the cuboid planet where everything is backward. Denizens of this parallel world are distorted replicas of their Earth-based ...

On Bizarro World, Superman is the odd man out. The Man of Steel takes a trip to the home planet of his longtime enemy Bizarro, the nutty mirror image of Superman with the backward "S" shield on his ...

Perhaps there are those of you who remember the DC Comics venture called Bizarro World? Yes, I am dating myself. There in the Bizarro World also known as the cube-shaped planet Htrae, the society is ...

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In the early 1960s, DC Comics came up with a story set in a place called “Bizarro World,” a place where everything went opposite to rational expectations. In one episode, for example, a salesman is ...

An offshoot of this idea appeared in the series “Stranger Things,” when characters referred to living in “the upside down.” The current expression “six-seven” once referred to the fact that the world ...

Growing up in the 1960s, I was introduced to "Bizarro World" by DC Comics. Bizarro World was featured in comic books (now graciously re-named "graphic novels") as a planet where everything and ...

According to his long secret personal dossier, Stephen Chong gave up on education after high school, stayed single, votes but is not registered with a political party and has no car. In reality, the ...

ARLINGTON, Texas-- Twenty points. Oregon managed just twenty points. That’s all the Ducks and their Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota could muster against Ohio State in the inaugural ...