Stories by @runningman

World of Krypton (HBO Limited Series)

The House of El, once celebrated for its innovation, now stands divided as its greatest creation, a foreign AI known as Brainiac, turns against them. Jor-El and Zor-El, brothers and visionary scientists, once used Brainiac’s alien architecture to uplift Krypton’s infrastructure. But now, Jor-El fears that Brainiac is no longer advancing Krypton, it is consuming it. As planetary core instability rises and anomalies spread, Jor-El’s pleas fall on deaf ears. General Dru-Zod, once Jor-El’s close friend, grows disillusioned with the Science Council’s inaction. Believing the only salvation lies in conquest and martial control, he plots a rebellion that ends in betrayal, exile, and a vendetta that will echo through the stars.

The Flash: Flashpoint

Barry Allen, Central City’s forensic scientist and the Scarlet Speedster, is haunted by the murder of his mother and the wrongful imprisonment of his father. On her birthday, overwhelmed by grief, Barry travels back in time to prevent her death. But in doing so, he shatters the timeline. Barry awakens in a warped reality: • There are no Justice League heroes. • Atlantis, led by Emperor Aquaman, is at war with Themyscira, ruled by Queen Diana—a global conflict tearing the world apart. • Superman never emerged. • Bruce Wayne died in Crime Alley; his father, Thomas Wayne, became a brutal, gun-wielding Batman. • And Barry has no powers.

The Justice Society of America

As World War II escalates and supernatural threats rise in Nazi-occupied Europe, Colonel Steve Trevor, head of a covert U.S. initiative known as A.R.G.U.S., proposes a radical solution: form a metahuman task force to lead the fight. With President Roosevelt’s approval, Trevor travels the globe to assemble a team of extraordinary individuals, including a mysterious warrior woman from a hidden island, Diana of Themyscira. The newly-formed Justice Society of America is deployed to the front lines to combat Nazi forces led by the enhanced tyrants Captain Nazi and Baron Blitzkrieg, both empowered by occult science. As the war intensifies, the JSA becomes both weapon and symbol—revered by some, feared by others.

Batman: The Devil You Know

In the midst of his prime, Bruce Wayne has perfected the role of Gotham’s silent guardian. But when someone begins infiltrating his life—leaving cryptic clues, mimicking his tactics, and sabotaging his operations—Batman realizes he’s being studied… and hunted. Whoever’s doing it isn’t after Gotham’s money or power. They’re after him. All signs lead to a reclusive Arkham psychologist, Dr. Hugo Strange, who’s been profiling Batman for an unknown benefactor. But Strange is just a mirror. The real threat is someone from Bruce’s past, long buried and long angry—Thomas Elliot, now operating in secret as the masked saboteur Hush. Hush isn’t interested in killing the Batman. He wants to tear down the man behind the mask—piece by piece.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow

Clark Kent moved to metropolis, trying to live a quiet life as a journalist at the Daily Planet. But after saving a train full of people during a catastrophic infrastructure failure, he is thrust into the public spotlight, and becomes a symbol of both hope and fear. As the world meets Superman for the first time, Lex Luthor, a rising tech magnate and defense contractor, positions himself as Earth’s protector from “alien dependency.” Meanwhile, an accident at S.T.A.R. Labs involving a low-level technician, Rudy Jones, transforms him into the energy-draining monster Parasite, a tragedy Lex intends to exploit. As Parasite spirals out of control, Superman must prove he is not the threat, but the savior the world needs