Writer Ben Kahn recommends DC Comics' 52
We’ve all seen our share of mega-giant universe shaking event comics. And while 2005’s Infinite Crisis wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, what happened afterwards most certainly was. Every book in the DC line jumped forward one year. What happened in the missing year? That is the story of 52, an unprecedented weekly series that brought together a veritable Justice League of comics talent: Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka & Mark Waid co-writing with Keith Giffen on layouts. Together, they told a sweeping tale that encapsulated the whole of the DC Universe, and turned into a living, breathing, changing character in its own right.
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