Kingdom Come

In the late 1990s, Carlsen Comics published a German edition of Alex Ross’s landmark painted miniseries Kingdom Come, a visionary DC Comics story that reimagines a future where the classic superheroes of the Silver Age have been supplanted by a younger, more violent generation. Ross’s photorealistic art, working from a script by Mark Waid, gives the tale a timeless, epic weight, capturing the moral conflict between old-guard heroes and a world that no longer understands them. Though this specific edition is a single issue, the series remains a defining meditation on heroism and consequence.